In the story, The Green Tree, by Zakariyya Tamir, the two main characters, Talal and Randa, meet under a tree while Randa is crying. Talal is able to use his wits to get Randa to play with him. They both imagine many situations and act them out. In this instance imagination is used to cheer Randa up. The ending finds the children turning into a rock, a metaphor for the loss of innocence. This is the ultimate imaginative tool. In the story, The Black Cat, by Edgar Allen Poe, the main character is crazy. The main character is an alcoholic who is obsessing over a cat that he wants to kill. The main character kills his wife because she gets in the way of killing the cat. The man has everything pla

nned out; the author must have had an incredible imagination to think of hiding the dead wife in the wall.

As you can see imagination is a necessity for writing a short story. All stories use imagination in some form whether it is from the author?s point of view or that of the characters. Many authors write their stories solely on their imagination. Imagination is something we all poses and use. It is something we should not take for granted.

The story, After Twenty Years, by O. Henry, takes place in the streets of New York. The characters, Jimmy Wells and Bob, had been friends twenty years earlier. The two friends had decided to agree that twenty years from then they were to meet at the same time and restaurant. Bob is waiting on the corner imagining how everything will be like old times when Jimmy arrives. Bob starts to talk to a policeman about his and Jimmy?s past. It turns out to be that the policeman is Jimmy, and Bob is a wanted man. Jimmy has someone arrest him. The twist of the story is imaginative. The story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, takes place in small town U.S.A. The main character, Tessie, with the rest of the town, attends a lottery once a year. The winner of the lottery is sacrificed in order to help

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