Homework this week- Short Story time

Short Stories

Short stories are a great way to engage with a writer without having to access a whole novel. They are quick ways to improve your own accuracy and vocabulary as well as giving you an insight into how other writers (like yourselves) create tension, build characters and use structural devices like pivotal points, tense changes and climax. 

This week's task involves reading the short story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway and answering the questions at the end. Consider what the couple SEEM to be talking about and what they are ACTUALLY talking about...

CHALLENGE task - 
1) Write a similar story about a couple in a foreign land. Use ambiguity and try and emulate the style of Hemingway. 
2) OR write the next chapter of this story building on the story you have read. 

Ernest Hemingway short story