Post on 07-Jul-2015
Short Story:
Group:
Pedro Amado, Miguel Pimenta, Diogo Carvalho,
Tiago Monteiro & Danilo Fernandes
by Eric Malpass
CAIC, 2011/2012
Index:
The Author: Eric Malpass;
Plot Summary;
Title Explanation;
Main Characters;
Relevant Quotes;
Author’s Intentions: Wales;
Technology;
Black Death;
Love.
Future in 2500
Eric Malpass
Was born in the UK in 1910
Died in 1996
Writes historical fiction books
Also worked at BBC
“The Return of The Moon Man” is his
only short story.
Plot Summary
The narrator of the story is Bronwen, the granddaughter.
The story takes place in 2500 and talks about a family who lives in a farm. When the family brought electricity to the farm. Grandpa didn’t like the idea, he thought it was “Devil’s Invention”.
Then, suddenly, a space-ship landed on the farm because one of the astronauts was ill. Grandpa took his place without telling the rest of the family.
Plot Summary
Grandma was so sad that she married a Time Machine Repairman and went on honeymoon to 1954.
When Grandpa came back, he bought a time machine and went after his wife, only to find out that her new husband died with Black Death and that she had no plans of coming back.
Later we find out that Grandma joined a nunnery.
Title Explanation
THE RETURN OF THE
MOON MAN
Main Characters
Grandpa;
Grandma;
Dad;
Bronween;
Llewllyn Time Machine;
Relevant Quotes
“The astronaut bit the tong when the
space-ship launched sudden (and
consequently couldn’t go to the
moon)”
“Gran thought that her husband was
dead just because the moon had
disapppeared!”
Author’s Intention
Wales;
Technology;
Black Death;
Love.
Wales
Old fashioned;
Characterized Names;
No electricity in 2500.
Technology
Grandma wasn’t satisfied;
Space-ship landed on a farm;
Ruined Grandpa’s marriage;
Llewllyn was into technology and died
because of it.
Technology
Advantages;
Disadvantages.
Black Death
Llewllyn died with it;
Usual in Middle Ages;
Painful way to die.
Love
Grandpa abandoned Grandma;
Grandma didn’t trust him so she ran away;
Both ended up alone.
Future in 2500