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A Shocking Accident

A Shocking Accident. By: Graham Green. Vocab. housemaster (n)- a man who is in charge of a house. inexplicable ( adj ) - not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.

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A Shocking Accident

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  1. A Shocking Accident By: Graham Green

  2. Vocab • housemaster (n)- a man who is in charge of a house. • inexplicable (adj)- not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained. • convulsion (n)- contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions of the extremities, trunk, and head. • callousness (adj)- made hard; hardened.

  3. Quiz 

  4. What Happens • This story is about a guy that gets killed by a pig falling on him and about how his son feels about it • The mans son first response to his dads death was “Did he get shot” because he thought his dad was in the secret service. • Once he learns that he was killed by a pig he asked what happened to the pig.

  5. Facts about the story • Story takes place in Naples, Italy in the 1960’s • The pig that fell on the man fell from a 5th floor balcony and hit the 3rd floor balcony that made it move out to the sidewalk and break the mans neck • The mans son doesn’t seem to worry about the fact that his dad just died because he is keeping his feeling bottled up

  6. More Facts • Jerome (the mans son) worshiped his father but didn’t show an feelings towards his death • The mans son doesn’t reveal that he cared about his dads death until a girl he was dating didn’t seem to ask questions about his dads death and that was all that he really wanted • You may be wondering what happened to the pig after the accident, they ate it.

  7. Even More Facts • The man was going to The Hydrographic Museum when the pig fell on him. • The man always carried a water filter with him because it would help him save money

  8. Moral • The moral of this story is kind of a trick question it depends on your view point • If you see it in the mans eyes it is to expect the unexpected • But if you look at it in a normal persons way its that god works in mysterious ways and that something can happen to you when you don’t want it to

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