Short Story Elements: Plot, Setting, Character and Theme
Grade 8 · English · Reading (Intensive Reading: Short Stories)
Read: 'Achieng found a purse with five thousand shillings on the school path. She was very poor, yet she took it to the headteacher. Two days later, the owner, a visiting parent, rewarded her with a school bag. Achieng smiled: honesty had paid.' Elements: plot (events), setting (time and place), characters, conflict, theme.