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Story featuring a young lawyer and an old banker.
“The Bet”
A fallen angel?
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
Would his greed get to him before he stopped?
“Trap of Gold”
A young priest who wants to discover the past.
“By the Waters of Babylon”
Jerry’s mother doesn’t want to baby him.
“Through the Tunnel”
Horror story involving the Spanish Inquisition.
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
Science fiction story featuring a computerized police car.
“The Pedestrian”
A family tries escape to the United States after fleeing the Dominican Republic.
“Liberty”
An alluvial fan could be found in this short story.
“Trap of Gold”
Rats saved the protagonist.
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
Toledo
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
Far, far in the world’s past in what is today the United States.
“By the Waters of Babylon”
1885 in Russia
“The Bet”
The rugged American West in the late 19 th Century.
“Trap of Gold”
Along the Mediterranean Sea after World War II.
Through the Tunnel”
He wrote the epic poem “John Brown’s Body” and the short story “By the Waters of Babylon”
Stephen Vincent Benet
Writer of “…seventy novels and four hundred short stories…” who also wrote “Trap of Gold.”
Louis L’Amour
The “Stephen King” of his time and a citizen of Baltimore.
Edgar Allan Poe
She lived in Persia and what is now known as Zimbabwe and wrote “Through the Tunnel.”
Doris Lessing
A native of Columbia who wrote the story of magic realism called “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The underlying meaning of a story that cannot be explained in one or two words.
theme
A style of fiction associated with modern Latin American writers, in which fantasy and reality are casually combined.
magic realism
The time and place in “Trap of Gold” that is actually the antagonist of the story.
setting
The point of view where the story is told by a character who refers to himself or herself as “I.”
first person
A narrator who is a god-like observer who knows everything that is going on in the story and who can see into each character’s heart and mind.
omniscient