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Grade Level:       Type of Work           Subject/Topic is on:
 [ ]6-8                 [ ]Class Notes    [Summary of a bunch of   ]
 [x]9-10                [ ]Cliff Notes    [Stories.                ]
 [x]11-12               [x]Essay/Report   [                        ]
 [ ]College             [ ]Misc           [                        ]

 Date: 06/94  # of Words:1,150 School:Public - COED   State:NY
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Here are a bunch of stories in summary:
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Title: "The Boar Hunt"

Author: Jose Vasconcelos

Setting: near a peruvian river, part of the Amazon jungle

Characters: four companions known as the Columbian, the peruvian,
the Mexican and the Ecuadorian are the hunters.

Plot: Four men are on a major hunt for boars. While swaying in
their hamocks between trees, they hear a noise in the thicket
from which emerges a great number of boars. The men begin their
kill. As the wild pigs continue to gather, the men's ammunition
dwindles. The pigs begin to slash at the trunks of the trees to
which the hammocks are attached. The seemingly intelligent
assault on hte trees continues throught the nught as the men
watch in horror. Realising his imminent death, the narrator uses
his hammock, like a swinging  vine, to gain access to trees for
safety. Hearing the trees collapsing and the dying screams of his
companions, the narrator is aware of his narrow escape from death
and so has a dramatic change of attitude towares the hunt.

Conflict: man vs. himself
          man vs. nature

Theme: Whenever man tampers with nature, the consequences of this
action can be fatal or painful to himself.


Title: "FOrgiveness in Families"

Author: Alice Munro

Setting: Action occuring over a period of time.

Characters: Val; he narrator who is finding it difficult to
understand her brother's actions.
            Cameron; (Cam), the brother who is irresonsible and
aimless.
            Mother; who is accepting of her son Cam's actions.

Plot: Val narrates about her family as an introduction for
telling of the time her mother became very sick and her brother
Cam, a food for nothing by the narrator's perspective, visited
the hospital with his "co-priests" and "worked a miracle" upon
his mother. His mother does recover.      

Conflict: man vs. himself
          man vs. man

Theme: Growth in self-awareness can effect an understanding on an
improvement in family relationships.

Title: "Lamb to the Slaughter"

Author: Roald Dahl

Setting: The Maloney household located in a large city-action
occuringn within a day.

Characters: Mary Maloney - pregnant wife of patrick
            Patrick Maloney- - husband
            Sgt. Moonan - detective

Plot: Mary Maloney is a content housewife whose whole life
centers around her husband. He arrives home one evening and tells
her the he is leaving her. In shock, she begins to prepare a leg
of lamb for dinner. When her husband tells her not to bother, she
hits him over the head with the frozen leg of lamb. She proceeds
to cook the meat and serve it to the detectives who come to
investigate her husband's death.

Conflict: man vs. man

Theme: Things aren't always what they appear to be.

Title: "Through the Tunnel"

Author: Doris Lessing

Setting: at the shore, covering a week's vacation in southern
France.

Characters: Jerry - a determined, proud eleven year old.
            Mother - who is determined to be a good mother,
because she is a widow.

Plot: A boy, Jerry, goes to the beach with his mother everyday.
At the bay, after meeting native boys, who swim through an
underwater tunnel, Jerry practices holding his breath so that he
can accomplish his goal.

Conflict: Man vs. himself
          Man vs. nature

Theme: Part of growing up is providing one can accomplish
something which might be daring or reckless.

Title: "Shaving"

Author: Leslie Norris

Setting: Springtime, occuring within a day in the sanford
household.

Characters: Barry- a seventeen year old who wants to be a good
son.

            Father, who is terminally ill.

Plot: The story is told by Barry's point of view. The dying
father feels unclean, because he is unshaven. He feels foo
physicalls and psychologically when Barry shaves him.

Conflict: man vs. himself

Theme: With maturity comes resposibility, especially when a
traumatic circumstance causes roles to be reversed.

Title: "The Interlopers"

Author: Saki

Setting: In a forest in the Carpethian mountains in Eastern
Europe. The land is steeply sloped and tangles with underbrush.
It is the winter night and storm winds are blowing.

Characters: Ulrich von Gradwitz - landowner
            Georg Znaeym - trespasser

Plot: An old feud between the families of Ulrich von Gradwitz and
Georg Znaeym seems certain to end in death as the two men stalk
each other within the disputed forest. They come face to face,
but before either man can attack, a falling tree pins them both
to the ground. In their mutual pain and helplessness, the
consider thier quarrel and decide to make peace with each other.
They welcome the sounds of an approaching group, only to discover
that they have attracted a pack of wolves.

Conflict: man vs. man
          man vs. himself
          man vs. nature

Theme: Sometimes a step towares friendship comes too late to be
of any consequence.

                         Poetry Section

Title: "Cooney Potter"

Author: Edgar Lee Masters

Theme: We work ourselves to deat forsaking our family in our
pursuit to get ahead materially.

MOod: Regret, introspective

Irony of situation: Irony is presented in the overall portrait of
Cooney Potter striving to better himself and yet failing to enjoy
his life for he died before the age of 60.

Title: Harlem

Author: Langston Hughes

Theme: You can't repress aspirations without it leading to
violence.

Mood: Bitter, angry, frustrated over the plight of the black 
man.

Paradox: A seemingly self-contradictory statement that is true.

Title: "The man who spilled light"

Author: David Wanoner

Theme: People are fearful of the truth.

Mood: serious

Tone: Ironic

Figurative language: "Scraped up the light"
                     "Clouds folded inside out"
                     "Light tied in knots"

Summary: Light (truth) is brought into the lives of the dark.
Instead of being happy, they appear to prefer being in the dark.


Title: "The Road not Taken"

Author: Robert Frost

Theme: Life is a series of choices and when we are presented with 
the choices, we select that which we feel is the best for us at
that time.

Figurative Language: 
               Symbolism:

                         "The two roads represent two courses
                          in life which the speaker must decide
                          upon."

Summary: Literally, the poet describes making a decision about
which of the two roads to take. Metaphorically, he describes
making a major decision about his life.

Title: "Those Winter Sundays"

Author: Robert Hayden

Theme: In retrospect, we appriciate the significance of small
acts.

Mood: Thoughtful

Figurative language: Metaphor:
                    "I'd wake and hear the coald splintering,
breaking"
                    "Blue black cold"

Title: Walter Simmons

Author: Edgar Lee Masters

Theme: Sometimes others expect too mcuh of you.

Mood: Introspective

Alliteration: The repetition of similar or identical sounds at
the beginnig of words
               "Watched and Waited"

Title: "The Zoo"

Author: Stevie Smith

Theme: Caging animals doesn't comply with the laws of nature. 

Mood: Sad

Tone: Angry

Figurative Language: Ruby rage, water dusty London town.

Summary: A little boy at the zoo is told that the caged lion
doesn't like him because he can't eat him. The lion is sad,
because he is not free.
