CONTEMPORARY

SHORT STORY
BY: BAEL INTERNS
 WHAT IS
CONTEMPORARY STORY?
WHAT IS A SHORT
STORY?
 so what is
contemporary
short story??
synopsis
 elements of a
short story
PLOT CHARACTER SETTING CONFLICT

THEME
 PLOT
Exposition- Fourteen-year-old Alison Pope thinks to herself about
other people as she descends the stairs. She pretends that the
staircase is marble. She pretends there are princes waiting for her.
She remembers she has a recital tonight and needs to get her tights
out of the dryer.
Rising Action- There is a knock at the door. She answers it. It was a
man she did not know in a meter-reader vest.
Climax- Kyle gets the geode and runs across the lawn while thinking
of everything he is doing wrong (by his parent’s standards). He
smashes the geode through the windshield and into the meter
reader’s skull. Alison escapes and runs back to the house to call for
the police.
 PLOT
Falling Action- Kyle and the Meter-Reader hear sirens. Kyle looms
over the man, threatening to smash his skull with the geode.
Alison is standing in her kitchen watching Kyle hold the rock. She
whispers ‘don’t.’ She has nightmares for months after that Kyle
decapitates the man and she is unable to scream for him to stop.

Conclusion- She talks about this with her parents who remind her
that she did go stop Kyle from killing them man and that they
were both good kids.
CHARACTERS AND SETTING
CHARACTERS SETTING
Allison Pope. Three days shy of her
Kyle Boot. fifteenth birthday,
unnamed Russian Alison Pope paused
parishioner of a at the top of the
Russian church stairs. Say the
disguised as a meter- staircase was marble.
reader.
Conflict and theme
CONFLICT THEME
When a Russian man The story revealed
had his eyes into that who they
Allison and proceed appear to be isn't
to abduct her and is always who they
planning of causing turn out to be.
harm to the girl.
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