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riticism on Short StoryAs I was reading this short story, at first I just thought that she included an

introduction in her short story that serves an overview what it contains. However, on the

succeeding paragraphs, Ive found out that the contents are just the same. It came to

me that what the short story all about are all mere explanations and elaboration of the

title Last Heartache. And as to the elements of short story, let me begin by stating

what this poem lacks. It has no proper setting, character, dialogue, and lastly, the plot.

First, it has no proper setting. A story may or may not state the setting as long as it is

clear where the story took place. However, in this short story I could not identify where

the story really took place. It is not clear in the story about the atmosphere, weather

condition, time when story has taken place.

Second, there is no definite character. There are people mentioned in the story,

but they dont have any actions and portrayal in the story. They are just being

mentioned but after that they are all gone. It is not clear as well their role and what they

represent in story. Since there are no characters, then of course there is no dialogue.

Sometimes, the dialogue that somehow gives vivid understanding what is the story all

about. It censures also on the readers the feeling of each character through their

respective statements.

And lastly, there is no proper sequencing of events in the story. It begins with a

conflict until the end which states the same thing. It also begins with an explanation and

elaboration of the feelings of the author and it ends as well stating the same old thing. I

just wondered if how a short story can be called a short story if it doesnt have any plot.

Then I came to realization that this is not a short story maybe, but an essay on Last

Heartache, where the author included a lot of her experiences with a guy but it is not

stated in a story but in an essay.

In addition, Ive found out that there some grammatical errors and errors in

sentence construction. The story contains a lot of fragments and run-on sentences.

Each paragraph contains fragments. And some of the paragraphs contain run-on

sentences. This poem as well contains incorrect usage of punctuation marks. For

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example, an ellipsis contains only three points but in the story, it uses seven or four

points to represent an ellipsis which is not the right. Another thing is, some of the verbs

do not agree with the subject. There are also redundancies of stating ideas. Some

points are being repeated in the succeeding paragraphs which make it redundant. And

last thing is, there is no parallelism in expressing ones idea.