'The Path Through The Cemetery' By Leonard Q. Ross

Writing B.A

In the story “The Path Through the Cemetery” by Leonard Q. Ross, a man named Ivan has a daily routine where he, every night, stops at a saloon at the edge if a cemetery in the village. His home is on the other side of the cemetery and every time, even in broad daylight, he walks around the cemetery even though the path through the cemetery would make the walk home extremely shorter, but one winter night a man challenges him to walk through the cemetery and stick a sword in the middle of the cemetery to prove that he did it for a reward of five golden rubles. He accepts the challenge and goes on his way to complete it, but as he reaches the middle of the cemetery and puts the sword in the ground, something happens and Ivan freezes to death in the night. …show more content…
In the story it says “Ivan was a timid little man” and I agree with that because he never walked through the cemetery despite the fact that it would make the walk more short and he is very nervous and worried about everything throughout the story and at the end of the story when he put the sword in the ground and he was extremely scared because he felt like someone was grabbing him he was too paranoid to realize that nothing was grabbing him it was just the sword and he was nervous so he put the sword through his jacket. The setting in “The Path Through the Cemetery” was in Russia, because when the man challenged Ivan he said he would give Ivan “five gold rubles’ and rubles is the currency in Russia. Also it is winter because in the story it was a windy cold night and also when he stabbed his coat and got stuck he froze to death so that means it was cold enough for him to