Elements of a Short Story.

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Short Story Element	What is it?	Example
setting	The place in which the events of a work of literature happen.  Setting gives us the where and the when	The forest
plot	Plot is the action, the quest for satisfaction, What's going down, what's going to happen.	everything that gave the tree of love and then the guy who gave nothing repent and return to the tree
characters	Oh, it's the characters, The people in the story who carry out the action.	MAIN CHARACTERES the child. the tree.
conflict	The conflict is a struggle between two people or things in a short story. The main character is usually on one side of the central conflict.	Is the story of a child becomes an adult, then old and a tree who loves that child and give him all its branches, its trunk and its apples for that child to be happy.
theme	The theme is the central idea or belief in a short story.	all you can give someone for love and the other is that the boy realized all that he had given the tree without getting anything in return