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Short Story Analysis

Fill in the chart below with bullet points

What are your What do you What do you Question #4

first think you would think you would

impressions? like about this dislike about this

story? story?

I was intrigued at rst by the I liked the origami

#1 origami
Sometimes I loose interest by the
long descriptions
At rst, violin was something that I
just wanted to try out, but then
my 8th grade orchestra teacher

The Paper turned it into something more,

now I feel encouraged to try my

Menagerie hardest to improve for him

I lost my AirPods and I was

I feel bad for fwadausi, she’s being The like the storyline, it’s intriguing I don’t like how violent the uncle
#2 abused by her uncle and I feel sympathy for her is
genuinely terri ed that my parents
would be furious with me, they were

The Key understanding but still mad but they

reacted better then I thought

I mildly related to the kid, even if I like that I can relate to the kid I don’t like how whiny the kid is, Lit devices found

#3

The Jacket
they’re being a little moody
about it
but I also understand why • Simile

• Personi cation

At home I speak Spanish and am

It’s too descriptive and I loose

The person must speak another
#4 foreign language and now the
person speaks a more
I don’t really like the story
interest a lot in the story
more controlled at home, but at
school I feel like I can let loose a

Mother Tongue sophisticated form of English

little when I talk because parents
aren’t around

#5
Very long and descriptive Not sure I like this a whole lot
either I get lost too often in the story and
She’ll probably nd a pink slip
getting red
I’m not really sure what’s going on

Martha Martha

The girl wants to go to the party
#6 but her mother doesn’t want her
to go and believes that her
The Stolen Party friends isn’t her real friend
I want to know if the daughter I don’t like that the mom doesn’t I feel like the mother is strict and
goes, if her friend really is her trust her friends but she does the daughter as carefree, and it
friend have a point and she’s probably doesn’t seem like they have a
just looking out for her daughter very good relationship

Rank the stories in order of which you would like to read and
analyze:

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2
3.
6
4. 3
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