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    — 40 Short Stories A Portable Anthology Fourth Edition Edited by BEVERLY LAWN Adelphi University Bedford/St. Martin's HosTON « New yoRK e 584 eaomenr ‘When he ses it, it is more than he expected. I wheels, and slow, skimming the cracked husk of the ship, more graceful any he has ever seen, even though he has sat on the beach for ‘watching them come and go. It swims, compressed, into the ‘of the ship, its beaked head darting at cracks that are too small ‘tout, trapped in a metal tide pool on the edge of the abyss. The sighs, sloshes around the iron trough, and Jack catches a slimpse of its black eye, the globe ofits shell, as it turns and ‘once again, trying to press its body out into the sea, Close-Reading Short Stories ‘THE PURPOSE OF CLOSE-READING (On the table oF desk in front of you is @ short story to read as an ‘assignment or because someone recommended it to you. Your head fs buzzing with sounds and images that have nothing to do with the story. The challenge is to get into the reading, to really gt into it, 0 that you and the sory, for the next half hour or hour, will be inactive partnership, dri the distractions and creating something that never existed before: your personal interpretation ofthe story. ‘The benefits are enormpus, As a reader, you will be entertained, expanded, and moved, often deeply and unforgettably. The storys ‘transformation seems magical; from a dozen or so pages of print, it ‘springs to life in your mind. Its characters become real people in ‘conflict with thers or with themselves ina place and time probably rnew to you, These experiences and transformations are often why authors write and publish, and why readers approach a story with ‘anticipation and read and remember it with intense pleasure. "To become involved in this way, you need to read slowly and care- fully and concentrate with an active mind on the language of the story. Close-reading is more involved than reading: it goes beyond ‘understanding the meanings of the printed words. The method involves identifying and evaluating some of the following: a story's diction or vocabulary; its imagery, sentence structure, point of view, setting, characters, plot, and themes; and the vision of life expresses, (For help with these and other terms in this section, con- Sult the Glossary of Literary Terms) To analyze a story, a close- reader examines details to consider larger meanings. Close-reading is challenging because it involves exploration and discovery of pat- terns, but with practice it hecomes easier and rewards the reader by building an active partnership with the text. Annotating a text, dis ceussed below, and recording your thoughts ina reading journal dire tools that strengthen your elose-reading. <— sy 546 __cLost-Reanine stions stones As you read this section, keep in mind three general points, First,

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