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#2 (permalink) Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:49 pm Analyze the story "Tell me a story" |
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#3 (permalink) Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:07 am Help me! Please |
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I’m Vietnamese student . I have problem in analysing short story.
Please help me analyze the story “Tell me a story”
1/ Characters : opposing- forces 2/ Complication 3/ Climax 4/ Solution 5/ Theme
I look forward to getting your help soon !
Thanks in advance !
"Tell me a Story!" by Rabindranath Tagore As soon as the child learns to speak, he says: "Tell me a story." Grandmother begins: "Once upon a time, a prince and his friend, the minister's son-----" She is stopped by the schoolmaster, who says: "Three times four make twelve." Well-wishers go on dinning in the child's ears: "Three times four make twelve; this is a fact, while the prince is fiction; therefore-----" It fails to impress the child, for his mind has flown away to an unmapped land where the prince has killed a demon; and no arithmetic has the wings to fly there. The well-wishers shake their heads and say: "Spoilt, absolutely spoilt; the rod is the only remedy." Grandmother has been put to silence by the schoolmaster. But one story-teller takes the place of another. There is no end to them. The well-wishers repeat in vain: "Those stories are not recorded in history. They are false." From primary to higher school, from school to college, the attempt goes on to reform the boy; but nothing can stop his demand: "Tell me a story." |
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Tony0105033 New Member
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#4 (permalink) Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:15 am Help me! Please |
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Hi Tony
Why don't you give it a try first? . _________________ "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln |
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