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    A Shocking Acc

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    The document is a summary of the short story "A Shocking Accident" by Graham Greene. It describes the plot points such as the shocking accident being the pig falling from a balcony and killing Jerome's father. It also analyzes symbols like how the pig represents the absurdity of life. The summaries describe Jerome's reaction to his father's death and how others find humor in it.

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    The document is a summary of the short story "A Shocking Accident" by Graham Greene. It describes the plot points such as the shocking accident being the pig falling from a balcony and killing Jerome's father. It also analyzes symbols like how the pig represents the absurdity of life. The summaries describe Jerome's reaction to his father's death and how others find humor in it.

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    The document is a summary of the short story "A Shocking Accident" by Graham Greene. It describes the plot points such as the shocking accident being the pig falling from a balcony and killing Jerome's father. It also analyzes symbols like how the pig represents the absurdity of life. The summaries describe Jerome's reaction to his father's death and how others find humor in it.

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    A Shocking Acc

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    Mykhailo Polonchyk
    The document is a summary of the short story "A Shocking Accident" by Graham Greene. It describes the plot points such as the shocking accident being the pig falling from a balcony and killing Jerome's father. It also analyzes symbols like how the pig represents the absurdity of life. The summaries describe Jerome's reaction to his father's death and how others find humor in it.

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    A Shocking

    Accident
    By Misha London
    Heroes Plot Analysis Picture
    100 100 200 100
    200 200 300 200
    300 300 500 300
    400 400 750 400
    500 500 1000
    Heroes 100
    The name of the main
    character
    Heroes 100
    The name of the main
    character
    Jerome
    Heroes 200
    Who has telephoned the
    school? Why?
    Heroes 200
    Who has telephoned the
    school? Why?
    Jerome’s aunt.
    Heroes 300
    Who is Mr
    Wordsworth? 
    Heroes 300
    Who is Mr
    Wordsworth?
    - The headmaster 
    Heroes 400
    Who told the truth
    about Jereme’s father to
    Sally?
    Heroes 400
    Who told the truth
    about Jereme’s father to
    Sally?
    - His aunt
    Heroes 500
    How old is Jerome when
    his father dies?
    Heroes 500

    How old is Jerome when


    his father dies? - 9
    Plot 100
    What is the shocking
    accident in the story?
    Plot 100
    What is the shocking
    accident in the story? -
    The shocking accident
    refers to when the pig fell
    from the balcony and
    killed Jerome’s father.
    Plot 200
    How does Jerome react
    to the death of father?
    Plot 200
    How does Jerome react
    to the death of father? –
    He doesn’t show lots of
    emotions.
    Plot 300
    Why has Jerome got so
    many postcards?
    Plot 300
     Why has Jerome got so
    many postcards? - His
    father sent him postcards
    from different places. He
    loved the memory of his
    father.
    Plot 400
    When does Jerome
    realise that other people
    find his father’s death
    comical?
    Plot 400
    When does Jerome
    realise that other people
    find his father’s death
    comical?
    - When he first goes to
    public school.
    Plot 500
    How does Mr
    Wordsworth react when
    he tells Jerome how his
    father died? 
    Plot 500
    How does Mr
    Wordsworth react when
    he tells Jerome how his
    father died?  - He finds it
    hard not to laugh. 
    Analysis 300
    How does the pig serve as a symbol
    in "A Shocking Accident"? 
    Analysis 300
    How does the pig serve as a symbol
    in "A Shocking Accident"? 
    - The flying pig that kills Jerome's
    father symbolizes the absurdity of
    life. Many events in life cannot be
    predicted or prepared for,and death is
    one of them.. 
    Analysis 500
    How does the third person contribute
    to the reader's impression of Jerome's
    engagement in "A Shocking
    Accident"?
    Analysis 500
    The narrator explains the
    relationship as nothing particularly
    special, as well as provides an
    objective account of Jerome's as well
    as Sally's state of mind.
    Analysis 750
    In "A Shocking Accident", how does
    Jerome's question "What happened to
    the pig"? suggest Greene's belief that
    life is basically absurd?
    Analysis 750
    Rather than ask for more information
    about his father, Jerome concentrates
    on the pig instead. Greene is mocking
    Jerome's supposed idealization of his
    father.
    Analysis 200

    In "A Shocking Accident " why does


    Jerome rehearse two different
    versions of his father’s death?
    Analysis 200
    He wants to find a way to minimize
    the humor in the story. He wants to
    add some dignity to the story of his
    father's death so that people will not
    laugh when he tells it.
    Analysis 1000
    Reread the scene in which the
    housemaster breaks the news of the
    death of Jerome's father to the boy.
    How does Greene's use of third
    person point of view in this scene
    contribute to the irony of the
    situation?
    Analysis 1000
    Greene uses an omniscient narrator
    to describe how the housemaster
    dangerously close to laughing. Third-
    person allow the reader to appreciate
    the complexity of feelings in the
    scene.?
    Picture 100
    Which is obviously NOT a theme of
    the story?
    Picture 100
    JEALOUSY
    Picture 200
    As an adult, Jerome became a/an...
    Picture 200
    As an adult, Jerome became a/an...
    Picture 300
    What would Jerome's father bring
    with him when he was travelling?
    Picture 300
    What would Jerome's father bring
    with him when he was travelling?
    Picture 400
    Jerome's and his father had the same..
    Picture 400
    Jerome's and his father had the same..

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