I like short stories for the most part. If they are not boring or stupid, then I enjoy them. I don't like the fact that if it is a good story, it doesn't last that long because it's short. There goes a good novel. What makes a good short story, is a well thought out story and characters that match the plot.
Two short stories that we have read in class are "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Lady or the Tiger?" Both of these stories were alright to me. I didn't love them, but they had characters with intresting personalities. In, "The Monkey's Paw" the father, Mr. White, makes very bad desicions, then a good one that saves the whole story and the characters in it. This story was definitely not realistic because it was about magic and wishes, but it almost seemed believable because the events happened were taken seriously by the characters.
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