Plot Summary Of The Skating Party

Imagine your two favourite people in the world hanging on a cliff. If you could only save one of them, who would it be? It would be a difficult choice that no one would want to make. However, that was what Uncle Nathan had to experience in “The Skating Party” by Merna Summers. In “The Skating Party”, the protagonist, Maida was walked through the events that led up to Nathan ending up never getting married. The story possessed an engaging plot, with the intentional suppression of detail creating suspense. One of the primary recurring themes in the story was one of unpredictable emotion. In the “The Skating Party” by Merna Summers, we learned about Uncle Nathan’s past. In the introduction, we were introduced to Maida, who was being told about the time her uncle wanted to get married. The conflict of the story was that Nathan really liked two girls, Delia and Eunice. When Nathan discovered that Delia was already married, he decided to pursue a long-lasting relationship with Eunice in the rising action. Eventually, Eunice and Nathan became engaged and had a skating party to celebrate. At the climax of the story, Eunice and Delia went off skating together and fell through the ice. In the falling action, Nathan came in time to save one of them, Delia. Finally in the resolution, Nathan admitted that he was fully aware of who was who and he saved Delia instead of Eunice.

I felt that we weren’t given enough information when we learned that Uncle Nathan didn’t save his fiancee. I wanted to know more from Nathan’s perspective rather than Maida’s mom; even though I knew what happened in the end, I needed to know why it ended that way. Nathan fed us information that pieced everything together very gradually to keep the suspense. It was the underlying reason why it made us hooked until the