Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools

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WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO

1. Make an outline that will show the structure of the story.

2. Why did the author have Avdeitch help more than one person?

3. Show how the use of realistic detail helps the story.

4. What characteristics make the story interesting?

5. Make a list of the epigrammatic expressions that occur in the story. How do they add to the effect?

6. What is the principal lesson taught by the story?

7. Compare this story with Eliot’s Silas Marner, Leigh Hunt’s Abou Ben Adhem, Lowell’s The Vision of Sir Launfal, Longfellow’s The Legend Beautiful, and Henry Van Dyke’s The Other Wise Man.

8. Write an allegorical story of some length, using realistic characters from daily life, leading to an effective climax, and presenting a high ideal of conduct.