Your friend, Sarah decided to enter for Penguin’s Young Short Story Writer’s Award 2020. Though she began with great enthusiasm, she now has a writer’s block. Complete the story for her in not more than 150-200 words with the help of the opening line given below, which Sarah began with.
Give a suitable title and moral to the story.
“30,000 ft. above the ground, defying gravity in a metal cabin, the air-hostess took a head count. There were 121 of us seated, but it did not tally with the records she held in her hand. She frowned. Suddenly....”
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Answer:
His eyes and ears hoovered up every speck of dust and dirt that clung to London life, as he staked out hangings at Horsemonger Lane, gin-joints in Holborn, the pleasure gardens of Vauxhall, the city’s theatres, slums, prisons and pawnshops. His early descriptions of places, people and customs were so vivid that they are the closest we have to a film reel of early 19th-century London. He read the city like a book.
Sketches by Boz
Charles Dickens George Cruikshank
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‘There are,’ procla
Explanation:
His eyes and ears hoovered up every speck of dust and dirt that clung to London life, as he staked out hangings at Horsemonger Lane, gin-joints in Holborn, the pleasure gardens of Vauxhall, the city’s theatres, slums, prisons and pawnshops. His early descriptions of places, people and customs were so vivid that they are the closest we have to a film reel of early 19th-century London. He read the city like a book.
Sketches by Boz
Charles Dickens George Cruikshank
BUY THE BOOK
‘There are,’ procla