Short Stories
Short stories consist of many aspects. A very common aspect is imagination. To write a story, the author needs to have an imagination. In many instances, the characters in the stories have imaginations. Imagination is defined as the formation of a mental image of something that is neither perceived as real nor present to the senses. Imagination is very diverse and can be used in many different ways. Imagination can be a thing to cause good or evil, but we all have it and are all capable of using it. Imagination is required to write a story.In the story, The Green Tree, by Zakariyya Tamir, the two main characters, Talal and Randa, meet under a tree while Randa is crying. Talal is able to use his wits to get Randa to play with him. They both imagine many situations and act them out. In this instance imagination is used to cheer Randa up. The ending finds the children turning into a rock, a metaphor for the loss of innocence. This is the ultimate imaginative tool. In the story, The Black Cat, by Edgar Allen Poe, the main character is crazy. The main character is an alcoholic who is obsessing over a cat that he wants to kill. The main character kills his wife because she gets in the way of killing the cat. The man has everything pla
nned out; the author must have had an incredible imagination to think of hiding the dead wife in the wall. In the story, Zero Hour, by Ray Bradbury, kids are playing a game called ?Invasion.? Kids under the age of ten are opening portals to Martians. The setting of the book takes place all over the world. Ray Bradburry has to have a wild imagination to of come up with this type of story. Ray Bradburry?s main genre is science fiction; he bases his stories on his imagination. The story, Nobody Here but-, by Isaac Asimov, takes place in a scientist?s laboratory. Two scientists, Bill Billings and Cliff Anderson, are trying to produce smaller calculating machines for society. They under estimate their calculations, and the robot they built comes to life. Isaac Asimov as well as Ray Bradbury has an endless imagination. Isaac Asimov is very famous for his science fiction writings in the future, which he owes to his imagination and his ability to write Virtuoso, by Herbert Goldstone, is a perfect example of imagination. The character, the Maestro, decides to teach a robot named Rolo to play the piano. Rolo plays the piano beautifully, but it is only due to the technology and his memory. Rolo does not show feeling because he is a robo
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