Objective This Week

By the end of the week, you should:

• Recognize tension in any piece of writing
• Identify where change occurs in a narrative
• Write a short fictional scene that contains both
• Apply this to one paragraph in your newsletter

Part 1 – Reading (30 minutes total)

1. Read: “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway

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It’s short. Very short.

Why this story?

Because almost nothing happens on the surface.

But everything is happening underneath.

There’s no political monologue.

No dramatic event.