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4. The housemaster nerves made him almost laugh at the whole accident, he had difficulties being serious. He told the story about the accident quick to keep himself serious.

1. “A Shocking Story” starts with Jerome being called in to the headmaster’s office. The headmaster, Mr. Woodsworth, tells Jerome that his father has died in an accident. Jerome has always thought that his father was some Secret Service Agent for Britain. He therefore assumes that his father was killed in a gunfight. Mr. Woodsworth then tells that his father was killed by a pig fallen on him. Jerome reacts in a special way; he doesn’t cry or show any grief.

The accident is rather comical than sad to other people. When Jerome gets older he is ashamed of telling people how his father died. At some point people starts to call him pig. When Jerome gets engaged later in life he still is embarrassed about the accident. Jerome and his fiancée Sally avoid his aunt. But when his aunt finally tells Sally about the accident Sally doesn’t laugh, but she becomes saddened to what happened. This makes Jerome happy and he finally has a bright positive attitude. Jerome becomes a happier person at the end of the story. Sally changes him in a good way.

3. At the beginning of the story Jerome becomes a victim of his father’s death. He gets more and more embarrassed of the accident and people starts to call him pig. This makes Jerome’s life hard and embarrassed. But at the end his fiancé hears about the accident. But she doesn’t laugh, she gets sad. This is changes Jerome’s life. He gets a more positive attitude and he is happy.

2. The irony is placed between the dialogue between the headmaster and Jerome at the beginning of the story. The circumstance of the death is so comical that the headmaster has trouble to keep his face serious. There’s an irony placed between Jerome’s thoughts of his father. Jerome worships him and believes his a Secret Agent, but his father is really a boring travel writer.

Creative Writing

The headmaster was calling up Jerome to his office in the break between the second and third class on Thursday morning. He had no intention of showing Jerome his laughter and smiling of the story he were going to tell Jerome. The housemaster was a respected man and he could not lose respect over this situation. He knew that if he would laugh or show a smiling face he could lose his reputation. He sat behind his desk with an appearance of perplexity and apprehension. Jerome had the odd impression when he entered that he was a cause of fear.

2. The writer’s attitude to Mr. Lawrence is really negative. He thinks that Mr. Lawrence is arrogant and only likes to do things his way. The writer is sarcastic.