A FIGHT WITH DEATH
1. What advantage is gained by the use of dialect?
2. How is the story made to appeal to our sympathies?
3. How is the country doctor made heroic?
4. Point out all the ways in which the doctor’s character is emphasized.
5. How much of the worth of the story is due to local color?
6. Point out examples of pathos; of humor. Why have both been used?
7. Write a story of heroism in ordinary life. Use the slang, or the dialect of daily life as you have actually heard it, as a means of increasing the effect. Be sure to make your story tell of action as well as of character. Make it rise to a climax.