In my essay I'm going to write about story grave by the handpost. Thomas Hardy wrote this story. It was set in Wessex, England the nineteenth century.

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Ricky Jones

Grave By The Handpost

In my essay I’m going to write about story grave by the handpost. Thomas Hardy wrote this story. It was set in Wessex, England the nineteenth century.

    The story is about a father and son relationship. Luke Holway and Sergeant Holway.

On Christmas Eve a choir of carol singers in Chalk-Newton were going round singing for people. They saw a light from a distance so they went to investigate. When they arrived there they find it is a burial of the sergeant. They to sing a carol as a sign of respect to him because he didn’t have a Christian burial. Before they were about to sing the son of Sergeant Holway Luke Holway arrived and found that the letter he wrote his father had killed him. He felt so guilty he wanted to kill himself. But the carol singers convinced him not to and go back to the army and make his father proud. He asked the carol singers if they could move his body to a church and they agreed to do so. He then went straight back to the army. The person in the choir who promised to move his father’s body to a church did not keep his promise to Luke. He felt that Luke would not return alive from the war. But years later Luke returned from the war and went to look for his father’s body. He looked around the church and couldn’t find his father’s grave.

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When he found out they hadn’t buried his father Luke got very upset and he killed himself. He was buried in a church not next to his father’s body at the crossroads.

The story is told as a flashback, looking back on the past. It tells the whole story from beginning to the end. I prefer this to having to guess or work out what happens in the end. It is a complete story

Luke Holway was a young man who was a home loving boy. He wanted to become a mechanic. But Luke was a man who listened ...

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