In What Ways Are These Two Texts Typical Of A Short Story Genre? The two texts ' Visitor ' and ' The adventure of the Speckled Band '

 The openings are both typical to that of a short story genre as they lauch the reader straight into the story almost assuming that the reader already knows the characters and settings as though it were a soap opera. The opening to ' The adventure of the Speckled Band ' is descriptive with unanswered questions. " wide spread rumours ", this quotation gets the reader guessing as to what the rumours are. The openings are also sometimes very unsure. " Not again, not to soon!", this is very unsure and nervous start to the story. Both stories have an opening which is typical of a short story genre as they are both unsure and confusing.

 The characters in ' Visitor ' and ' The adventure of the Speckled Band ' are unsure with no real background information leaving the reader with little to go on. The author portrays the characters to be widely known and famous. This saves the author time aswell as making the story more intense. The author also has to consider working in his/hers limits and having the characters like this would save much time for them. With ' The adventure of the Speckled Band ' the reader is expected to know who some of the characters are. In those times Shirlock Holmes was a big concept and everyone knew about it so the author need not waste time on introducing them. In ' Visitor ' it is slightly different with the reader not knowiong the characters but they can still relate to them with the little knowledge that they are givin by the author. Both have very few characters with the most number of characters being about 4 or 5. This is to make the story condensed and not to complicated for the reader. Having fewer characters in a short story would make the story more intense and interesting.