For this reason essay writing is a more difficult form of exercise, though also more satisfying, as it gives the students more scope for self expression. | Explain what is meant by 1. After the fire drill was over we re-entered the building. Now I raced up the stairs stepping on the heels of the slowpoke ahead of me. 2. I was out of my seat in a flash heading for the teacher s desk when a redheaded girl across the aisle tripped me up. 3. She leaned over me as I lay sprawled on the floor and hissed in my ear. 4. Slowly I began to erase the troublesome incident from my consciousness and my fear began to fade. 5. I came home that afternoon more mixed up than ever but determined not to stick my neck out. 6. . I fled out the front door in my stockinged feet going forty miles an hour my heart pounding like a jackhammer in my chest. QUESTIONS FOR STUDY AND DISCUSSION 1. Comment on the first sentence of the story part I . Is it an effective beginning 2. Speak on the role of rhetorical questions in the story. What do they add to the text 3. Why is the story divided into two parts Do you observe any difference between the ways the actions develop in Gun in the Desk and in Man Overboard 4. Point out three sentences in the story that keep you in suspense. 5. Point out the climax of the story. Account for your answer. 6. Copy out some concrete verbs that do justice not only to the bare facts of the event but to its feeling as well. 7. Look at the first sentence of the last paragraph part II At the corner of Main and Maple Streets I ran headlong into traffic and was almost run over by a cruising police car. Would the story be improved by more specific details at this point Make up two sentences that would be more specific than the sentences from the story. 20 8. Comment on the role of direct quotations. Would the expressiveness of the writing gain or lose if they were introduced in indirect speech. Why 9. In the last paragraph of the story one sentence reads In talking to the detective later I learned how my unwillingness to get involved had led to the near death of the armored car driver. Would the story have been better if this .
