Characterization And Point Of View In The Cemetery Path By Leonard Ross

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“The Cemetery Path” is a short story by Leonard Ross. Ivan lived on the other side of the cemetery. They bullied Ivan by calling him “Pigeon” because of his personality, and “Ivan the Terrible” just to mock him for being too scared to walk through the cemetery. Lieutenant made a bet with Ivan that he would not walk through the cemetery for five gold rubles. Ivan was scared but in the back of his mind he knew he needed the 5 gold rubles. He agreed to do the bet. The night of the bet he went through and stuck the saber in the ground, but he couldn’t get back up. The next morning they found Ivan dead by the saber. Ross uses third person to show characterization and point of view throughout the short story. In “The Cemetery Path”, Ross uses third person to show how Ivan was scared of going through the cemetery to get to his house. Ross made it realistic like something had happened like that in his life, but made it non-realistic too. Something held him. Something gripped him in an unyielding and implacable hold (paragraph 13). Is an example of non-realistic. Something that is not alive can not hold you to the ground. Another example is ,”His face was not that of a frozen man’s, but man a killed some nameless horror.” Lieutenant found him frozen like he was scared to death literally by something or someone. They use third person to make it …show more content…

They called him name “Pigeon” because he had a timid personality, and they called him “Ivan the Terrible” because he was scared to walk through the cemetery to get home quicker. The antagonist, Lieutenant, mocked Ivan and belittled him. He was making Ivan feel like less of a man. He bet Ivan to walk to the cemetery to get home one night and the next morning he found Ivan dead. In the back of his mind, he was probably saying that everything was his fault and that he should not had dared him to walk through the

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