The challenges she faces in the story is training her dog to be aggressive and bound forward so that anyone she sees she is going to injure them or even kill them.
The widow seems to be a calm person when everything is reared up this is because she deals with the situation in a calm yet evil attitude so she could bottle things up and not let her emotions show. The way she meets her challenges are with a strong determined hardhearted attitude.
In the story Guy De Maupassant uses different types of language to keep a strong tension right throughout the story. These types of languages are things like (after threading their way between two precipitous walls of rock) here he uses smart words to make you feel as if the place was enclosed and then (frisky, a great raw boned bitch, with a long, rough coat, of a sheep dog) he tries to describe the dog to make it sound a rugged and maybe vicious dog the words he used make it seem more realistic.
I quite like this story myself because its all about anger hatred and revenge and the way the writer uses some of the language just keeps the tension and makes you want to read on.
Story 2: - miss smith
In miss smith the boy (James Machen) faced a couple of challenges these were trying to get on the right side of Miss Smith (be friends in a way) and to try and get revenge on Miss Smith he finds out that Miss Smith has been doing the wrong to him. He tries to get on Miss Smith’s good side by lending her his pen but she chucks it back in his face (his offer) and he sends her flowers each day but again when she finds out she humiliates him by getting him into trouble, telling the people he stole flowers from that it was him. She also humiliates him in front of the whole class when he offers her his pen (James).
James changes in the story near the end because he wants revenge. He changes by asking the lawn mower how he could get revenge on Miss Smith.
William Trevor the author of the story uses language in the story in such a way it makes you feel for James and builds up the characteristics of what Miss Smith and James are like. It also builds the tension in the story in such a way that it in places makes it feel real. The author of the story also uses the language tom show the relationship between Miss Smith and James Machen. When he builds up the characteristics of James and Miss Smith he does it when James lends the pen to miss smith which makes him seem a cute little kind boy then miss smith basically takes the piss out of him by humiliating him which makes miss smith seem a nasty kind of woman in other words a big bully.
The way William Trevor structures the story is in such a way that it provides a twist and a cliff hanger at the end this is because instead of James trying to be nice to his teacher he is suggested to turn the opposite way and have his own payback. He asks the lawn mower how he could do this and the lawn mower gives James an idea, which was to hurt his teacher’s baby in the sense it would hurt Miss Smith. The cliffhanger is made when James meets Miss Smith with her baby and it ends there.
Story 3: - sredni vashtar
In the story ‘sredni vashtar’ Conradin faces numerous challenges with his aunt Mrs de Ropp these challenges were to try and get away from his aunt.
Conradin deals with this situation by avoiding her spending time in his room and in the shed.
Saki uses language to create character and to build tension he does this by using describing words and telling us things about both his aunt and Conradin himself. The author builds tension by using descriptive writing.
The author structures the story in a way that provides a twist at the end he does this by surprising the boy by killing his aunt in the story well we presume she dies.
The story that is most effective for me is miss smith because it has lots of tension and there is a lot of hatred feeling in the story itself.
