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Short Story Week 2
"The Interlopers"
Question | Answer |
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Author and real name: | Suki; Hector Hugh Munro |
Life of author: | 1870-1916 and Englishman |
Suki famous for: | Snappy endings, surprise endings, and being wickedly funny or terrifying |
*Note* Burma | |
Suki's dad: | British military police |
Suki's mom: | Died suddenly, so 3 kids went to live with grandmother and two aunts |
Strange things at new house of Suki's: | Never opened windows, thought Suki was sick, wasn't allowed friends, started school at age ten |
Where did pseudonym Suki come from? | Character that serves wine to gods in THE RUBAYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM |
Enemies in book: | Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym |
Setting: | Carpathian Mountains, run through Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine; end of 19th century; aristocrats owned vast areas of land |
Monsters: | Hate and feuding |
Moral of story: | Don't hold grudge, plotting hurts plotter |
Different Stages of a story: | Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution- Denouement |