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Enjoyment Obtained from Reading Short Stories
Summary: A variety of elements in a short story can enable the reader to enjoy reading it, whether it is plot, character, style or structure, or level of familiarity with or vicariousness through the story. The reader can also derive enjoyment from challenges offered by the themes or arguments in a story. Examples that bear this out include two Ray Bradbury short stories, "The Pedestrian" and "The Last Night of the World," as well as in Marjorie Barnard's short story "The Persimmon-tree."
A Enjoyment of reading does not simply come from being challenged by the themes or arguments in a text. There are other elements in texts which may perhaps make reading enjoyable. For instance; plot and character, or the reader may be engaged by the style or structure, or from the reader's familiarity or vicariousness, that is how close or distant the events in the text are from the reader's experience. However being challenged by the themes or arguments in a text, also brings enjoyment to reading.
Primarily, what does enjoyment mean? It means: to take pleasure from or in, have use of or benefit from. Therefore as readers we can also benefit from texts while taking satisfaction in reading them. But how can a reader benefit from a text?
There are short stories to be found which portray a cautionary message to the audience, from which the reader...
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