A
It took
place in Russia and it was
written by Leonard Q. Ross.
ELA Short Stories: The Cemetery Path By:
Lana Domozhyrov
In ELA, we are reading short stories. The short story I picked was
The Cemetery
Path.
written by Leonard Q. Ross.
The short story is about a man named Ivan
. Everyone made fun of him and mocked him.
They gave him the title ‘Ivan the terrible’ and
called him pigeon because he was small and
timid. Ivan would never cross the cemetery
path because he was terrified. He would never
take it, even in the full light of the moon. That
day at night time, he went to the tavern and he
Met
the young Cossack lieutenant. The lieutenant
had
asked him to go to the cemetery path and stick a saber in
the
ground and the lieutenant will give him 5 golden rubles. Ivan decided
and he went to the
cemetery. Before that, the lieutenant gave Ivan the saber and
he
went.
to go. It was a winter night and it was a blizzard
outside. Ivan stopped where he had to put the saber
into the ground. He was
wearing
a long, thick coat which was helping him to stay warm. Once he stuck the saber
into the ground, he tried to stand up but he couldn't because of his long thick coat
which held him down with the saber. he was like that all the blizzard night.
They found Ivan, next
morning, on the ground in
front
of the tomb that was in the center of the cemetery. His face was not
that of a frozen
man’s,
but of a man killed by some nameless horror. And the lieutenant’s
saber was in
the
ground
where Ivan had pounded it , through the dragging folds of his long
coat. And that's
how
it ended. Thank you.
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