This is another adventure story with an exciting setting that resonates well with young high school students. James Ullman, one of the first Americans to climb Mount Everest, may have based some details in “Top Man” on George Mallory’s fateful climb up Mount Everest in 1924. Mallory was a British mountaineer who climbed Everest, although it is not known whether he reached the summit. Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man known to have ascended to Everest’s summit in 1953……
A story’s setting refers to the time and place of a literary text. The setting of a story has several possible functions: It often provides background for the story, a place where the characters live. It can evoke a specific mood. It may provide conflict; sometimes the characters are in conflict with hostile weather conditions to endure, a stormy sea to navigate, or a mountain to climb. Setting can be used to reveal a person’s character. Jack London’s setting for…..
I plan to discuss some short stories that are universally popular among young teenage students. The most basic aspect of a story is its plot or the sequence of related events. Without that there’s no story. A plot always involves conflict or struggle. Consider these examples: When the king got up in the morning, he couldn’t find his royal slippers. He became very annoyed. The queen, however, found them under the bed and placed them on her husband’s feet. The…..
