Short Story No: 22 Copyright Year: 1852 Number of Pages: 4
Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Internet Date: 27 november 2021 https://americanliterature.com/author/charles-dickens/short-story/the-childs-story *Choose one: a novel or a short story
1. TITLE : The Child’s Story
2. SETTING : Forest 3. MAIN CHARACTERS & CHARACTERIZATION : Young child : Carefree Young boy : Smart Young man : always in love Middle-aged man : Busy, family man 4. PLOT : The traveler is walking and meets a child whom is playing. He invites the traveler to play with him. Then after some time, the child dissapeared. The traveler meets a beautiful child and the child invites him to study. Then after some time, the child dissapeared. The traveler meets middle-aged man whom is very busy. The man’s children come to tell him that they are leaving to all kind of places. Once the children leaving, the traveler looked up the sky and then look to the middle-aged man and saw his hair turning grey. The middle-aged man invites the traveler to remember the children and his wife. While the traveler is sitting beside the middle-aged man, all the people he met in his journey come back and turn out that the traveler is the middle-aged man. 5. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE END? While the traveler is sitting beside the middle-aged man, all the people he met in his journey come back and turn out that the traveler is the middle-aged man. 6. WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THIS STORY TO BE READ? WHY OR WHY NOT? Yes, this story is worth to be read because of the twist ending. All the things that happen to the traveler is a story of his stages of life and it’s interesting.