Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools

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ON THE FEVER SHIP

1. Show the steps by which the author makes us realize the soldier’s mental condition. His physical condition.

2. By what means does the author present the setting? The principal plot elements?

3. What previous events are indicated but not told? Why are they merely indicated?

4. Trace the steps by which we are led into full sympathy with the love story.

5. What means does the author take to increase the interest of the story as it nears the end?

6. Characterize the different subordinate characters introduced in the story. Tell why every one is introduced.

7. Show that the ending of the story is entirely appropriate. How is it made emphatic?

8. Write a story in which you show the moving effect of any deep love, such as love for parents, brothers, sisters, or children; or else write a somewhat restrained story of romantic love.