The Invalid's Story Analysis

Decent Essays
David Freeman
Hensley
English II/Fifth Period
02 February 2017 Part 1: Plot Summary My story was ?The Invalid?s Story? and it was about a man taking about a time when his friend named John B. Hackett died and he was requested by John to take his body back to his mother and his father when he died and when he got his body he had him in a coffin which he referred to as a gun case when he got on train to go to wisconsin where john?s parents lived and on the train strange things happen. He leaves the train for a minute to get some food and cigars and comes back and a young man is tacking an address card onto a similar box. The narrator assumes the first box is his friend which actually contains

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