a short story with nice topic in engkish
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1. “The Bogey Beast” by Flora Annie Steel
Reading Level: Very Easy
A woman finds a pot of treasure on the road while she is returning from work. Delighted with her luck, she decides to keep it. As she is taking it home, it keeps changing. However, her enthusiasm refuses to fade away.
2. “The Tortoise and the Hare” by Aesop
Reading Level: Very Easy
This classic fable tells the story of a very slow tortoise (another word for turtle) and a speedy hare (another word for rabbit). The tortoise challenges the hare to a race. The hare laughs at the idea that a tortoise could run faster than him, but when the two actually race, the results are surprising.
3. “The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse” by Beatrix Potter
Reading Level: Very Easy
Timmie Willie is a country mouse who is accidentally transported to a city in a vegetable basket. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a party and makes a friend. When he is unable to bear the city life, he returns to his home but invites his friend to the village. When his friend visits him, something similar happens.
4. “The Night Train at Deoli” by Ruskin Bond
Reading Level: Easy
Ruskin Bond used to spend his summer at his grandmother’s house in Dehradun. While taking the train, he always had to pass through a small station called Deoli. No one used to get down at the station and nothing happened there. Until one day he sees a girl selling fruit and he is unable to forget her.
5. “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
Reading Level: Easy
Earth has been destroyed by war and no one lives on it anymore. The robots and the machines continue to function and serve human beings who have long ago died.
6. “Orientation” by Daniel Orozco
Reading Level: Easy
This is a humorous story where the speaker explains the office policies, as well as gossip about the staff, to a new employee. It is extremely easy to read as the sentences are short and without any overly difficult words. Many working English learners will relate to it as it explains the absurdities of modern office life and how so little of it makes sense.
7. “Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
Reading Level: Fairly Easy
Jack’s mother can make paper animals come to life. In the beginning, Jack loves them and spends hours with his mom. But as soon as he grows up he stops talking to her since she is unable to converse in English.
When his mother tries to talk to him through her creations, he kills them and collects them in a box. After a tragic loss, he finally gets to know her story through a hidden message which he should have read a long time ago.
8. “The Missing Mail” by R.K. Narayan
Reading Level: Fairly Easy
Thanappa is the village mailman who is good friends with Ramanujam and his family. He gets to know about a failed marriage and helps Ramanujam’s daughter get engaged with a suitable match. Just before the wedding, Thanappa receives a tragic letter about Ramanujam’s brother. He decides not to deliver it.
9. “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Reading Level: Fairly Easy
The year is 2081 and everyone has been made equal by force. To do this, every person who is superior in any way has been handicapped (something that prevents a person’s full use of their abilities) by the government.
Intelligent people are distracted by disturbing noises. Good dancers have to wear weights so that they do not dance too well. Attractive people wear ugly masks so they do not look better than anyone else. However, one day there is a rebellion and everything changes for a brief instant.
10. “The School” by Donald Barthelme
Reading Level: Fairly Easy
A school teacher is narrating all the recent incidents that have happened on campus. First, they mention a garden where all the trees died. Pretty soon deaths of all kinds begin to occur.
11. “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
Reading Level: Fairly Easy
A mother is telling her daughter how to live her life properly. The daughter does not seem to have any say in it.
12. “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling
Reading Level: Fairly Easy
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is about a Mongoose who regularly visits a family in India. The family feeds him and lets him explore their house, but they worry that he might bite their son, Teddy. One day a snake is about to attack him when the Mongoose kills it. Eventually, he becomes a part of the family forever.
13. Excerpt from “Little Dorrit” by Charles Dickens
Reading Level: Fairly Easy
Dorrit is a child whose father has been in prison ever since she could remember. Unable to pay their debts, the whole family is forced to spend their days in a cell.
14. “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
Reading Level: Fairly Easy
A man travels to a freezing, isolated place called Yukon. He only has his dog with him for company. Throughout his journey, he ignores the advice other people had given him and takes his life for granted. Finally, he realizes the real power of nature and how delicate (easily broken) human life actually is.