The story start with the husband and wife playing the scrabble. Though the game, you could find out both of them are full of hate. They playing the game against each other, trying to make up the worse thing for each other. As they find out the scrabble could make the word come truth, they try to make the worse things happen. This story shows how they people hate. The story is written with the husband’s view. He has thought and tried a lot to make the worse happen, but at the and he’s killed by the word “Death”.
Charlie Fish. Death by scrabble.
- Genre: Short Story
- Source: East of the web.com
- Rating: 3
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Vocabulary
- Murderous –Intending or likely to murder
- Proportionate –Increasing or decreasing in size, amount or degree according to changes in something
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Hi Joy,
ReplyDeleteI have used this story for my year 11 class.
I thought that it had a great twist in the story.
All the time you feel tht perhaps he will be responsible for his death BUT in the end it is the wife who has control of the tiles. I thought it was quite funny.
Good work Joy.
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