Some of these stories have a twist at the end, finishing in a way that we might not have at first expected. Choose two stories and show how successfully in your opinions, the writers who have created the unexpected endings.

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Yusuf Dhorat

Some of these stories have a twist at the end, finishing in a way that we might not have at first expected. Choose two stories and show how successfully in your opinions, the writers who have created the unexpected endings.

   Both these stories, ‘The Stolen Bacillus’ and ‘Napoleon and the Spectre’ are written in such a way that will make the reader feel the expectations of the stories how are the stories going to end. In these stories there is a sudden change, which makes the reader think to themselves, what happened next? Also the ‘Twist’ in the stories it creates a surprise for the reader because the stories conclude in ways that a reader would not had expected.

      The Stolen Bacillus is about a Bacteriologist who is describing a type of bacteria to the visitor. I am going to write about the events that lead up to this sudden ‘Twist’. I am going to write the events that lead up to this “Twist” and unexpected endings.

   We see the bacteriologist describing the effects a type of bacteria if it would have been released. As the visitor has come to see it, it looks that the anarchist is unhealthy.

“The pale faced man peered down the microscope”

  The “pale” faced man as described in the book seems to be, why he is here, he might want to make bacteria and die with the disease.

    As the Bacteriologist goes through his microscope he describes, what his bacteria can do and the pale man looks fascinated at what this tube can do: He seems to take pleasure from its destructive properties.

“His eyes shone.”

   We see this as a sign as what the anarchist, the pale faced man is planning to do, we see what happens when the Bacteriologist opens it, but as he is about to open it HG Wells builds suspense up by describing how deadly this cholera germ is. But the moment is broken down when the Bacteriologist’s wife is calling him, and the bacteriologist goes out.

“Just a minute, dear,’ whispered his wife.”

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“When he re-entered the Laboratory the man was looking at his watch.”

“No I positively cannot stop a moment longer, I have an engagement at four.”

We see the pale faced man is in a rush to go to the engagement, we see a suspicion, why is he in such a rush, do we think that he has taken something.

  We now get a clear impression as to what the Bacteriologist was on about, when HG Wells was building up the suspense when the Bacteriologist was describing the effects of the germ. The anarchist may want to commit ...

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