Title	The Valentine Box
Author	Unknown
Characters	Roger ( a boy who was looking for some valentine box to his friends) Roger’s Mom ( a women who was very wise) Roger’s grandma ( an old woman) Roger’s friends
Conflict/ problem	When Roger was looking for some great valentines to the girls and boys he knew, his mom asked him to buy the baby’s dress to the store then asked him to take care of his grandma who was very old
Solution/ending	He was very pleased because his mother gave him a pretty, old-fashioned valentines

Title	Mujina
Author	Lafcadio Hearn
Characters	And old merchant, the last man who saw Mujina Mujina An itinerant soba-seller
Conflict/ problem	An old merchant saw a woman crouching by the moat, alone and weeping bitterly. When he knew that she was Mujina, he ran over up Kii-no-kuni-zaka (a slope in Tokyo). He saw a lantern of soba-seller and flung himself at the feet of the old soba-seller
Solution/ending	He was surprised when he knew that the oldman was also a Mujina

Title	Dear Busy Son
Author	Bonnie Selberg
Characters	The Old gentleman ( nice, faithful, patient, good father) Nurse ( kind, patient) Busy Son (less care, excessive)
Conflict/ problem	The old gentleman who always wait for his son, but his son never come to see him. The Old gentleman is really sad but he is patient to wait for his son, because he believe that his son will come.
Solution/ending	The nurse let the Old gentleman in a golden haze of beautiful memories pf his little boy.

Title	Was it a dream?
Author	Guy de Maupassant
Characters	A man A girl
Conflict/ problem	A man was so sad because his girlfriend was died when the came to him. He always imagine that his girlfriend still alive, until one day he got an experienced that he saw his girlfriend in the grave.
Solution/ending	The man look at his girlfriend’s grave, and there was a sentece that his girlfrien wrote for him. “she loved, was loved, and died”

Title	Misery
Author	Anton Checkhov
Characters	Iona Potapov His horse
Conflict/ problem	When Iona dot not know where he should tell his misery while there is no people who want to respect him.
Solution/ending	There was an old man who want to hear his story about his son who have died

Title	Do you speak English?
Author	Simon Collings
Characters	Manuel The boy
Conflict/ problem	When a boy watched a fish laid on the floor then a woman asked to him why he watched the fish, but the boy kept silence and did not answer a woman’s question because he can not speak english, so the woman asked Manuel to speak to the boy. Actually the boy wanted to sell the fish.
Solution/ending	The woman gave the boy amount of money and brought the fish up carefully between her forefinger and thumb. Then she threw it into the river and went away.

Title	Thank You, M’am
Author	Langston Hughes
Characters	A woman Roger
Conflict/ problem	Roger stole the woman’s bag because he wanted to buy shoes.
Solution/ending	The woman catched roger and asked roger to go to her house, then, the woman gave roger some money to buy shoes that he wanted.

Title	Sign and Symbol
Author	Vladimir Nobokov
Characters	mother, father, son, doctor, nurse
Conflict/problem	Actually the family was a success family, the father has good career and he is a success person. But this family was waiting for long time for a son. Then after they got the son got disease that can kill him.
Solution/ending	Finally the irony has to give up to the fate, the irony of the fate. A father is a success person but he cannot stop his son disease. Even he was a success person but he had to against the irony of the fate that he had to lost his son.

Title	The Gift Of the Magi
Author	O. Henry
Characters	Mr. james Dillingham Young or Jim Della Madam
Conflict/ problem	Jim and Della want to buy gift to each other but they do not have much money to do that. They want to celebrate christmas by give a gift.
Solution/ending	Jim sell his watch to get a comb for della as his wife, and Della sell his hair to buy watch for jim, her husband. Finnaly, they know that celebrate something not always using much money.

Title	The mother’s promise
Author	T.S. Arthur
Characters	A lady(mother), son, father
Conflict/problem	The mother promise to her son to buy him a picture book but she was not fulfill it and her son was disappointed and angry to her
Solution/ending	Finally when his father comes home he bought a picture book for his son and his son was very happy.

Title	An Uncomfortable Bed
Author	Guy de Maupassant
Characters	A Man (funny, nice) A man’s friends (full of jokes, nice, excessive)
Conflict/ problem	A man who wants to avoid his friends’ jokes, he decide to close the door, move his bed and close the curtain. When morning come, the servant come to his apartment and fallen down.
Solution/ending	The man run fast from his apartment and it makes his friend laugh.

Title	The Open Window
Author	HH. Munro (saki)
Characters	Mr. Nuttel ( a lost husband) Mrs. Sappleton ( nice, faithful, queer) Doctor (Nice and kind)
Conflict/ problem	Mrs. Sappleton always wait for his husband coming, but till three years his husband never come. She is patient wait for his husband and always open the window of her house for his husband
Solution/ending	She just keep on her believe that her husband will come.

Title	How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped
Author	Katherine Mansfield
Characters	1. Pearl Button 2. Two Māori women 3. More Māori people 4. Blue Men
Conflict/problem	Pearl Button was playing outside while her mother was ironing. Two Māori women went up to her and asked her to come with them
Solution/ending	They drove toward to the seaside and played there, but blue men came to pick Pearl Button up. Pearl Button never came back again

Title	A Classical Student
Author	Anton Chekhov
Characters	Vanya, his mother (vanya’s), Nastenka, Yevtihy Kuzmith Kuporrosov.
Conflict/problem	Vanya’s mother forces him for exam in an examination that should not followed by children in his age. His mother was angry because he did not exam. The she blame him
Solutio/ending	Finally vanya sent to business because actually his ability was in business and his family hope that vanya can be success in bussines.

Title	The Five Boons of Life
Author	Mark Twain
Characters	A fairy A man
Conflict/ problem	In one morning came a good fairy that will give gifts for a man, she wanted the man to choose wisely what he want, there are five gifts, and the man choose one by one, first pleasure, love, fame, and riches. He left one gift, that is death. However, he got nothing although he chose the best things.
Solution/ending	The man was so dispointed, because the fairy told him the meaning of the last gift that he did not choose.

Title	The Road from Colonus
Author	E. M. Forster
Characters	Mr. Lucas, Ethel, Julia
Conflict/problem	Mr. Lucas becomes restless to the idea of an expected passive, peaceful death from old age. He wants to "die fighting." Something mysterious happens: he finds a great old hollow tree from which a spring of water flows. He climbs into the tree and experiences an epiphany: he suddenly sees all things as "intelligible and good." He decides not to leave, and says he plans to stay at an inn near the old tree.
Solution/ending	The others are horrified, and force him to leave with them. Back in England, some time later, Ethel is now about to be married. Mr. Lucas has become a perpetually disgruntled old man, complaining about everything.  They hear about the news that the old tree was blown down. Mr. Lucas dismisses the story without interest

Title	The Prisoner of Zembla
Author	O. Henry
Characters	King ( selfish man) Princess (beautiful woman, nice and kind) Knight (nice , faithful man)
Conflict/ problem	The king fell into a furious rage, so that none durst go near him for fear, and he gave out that since the princess Ostla had disobeyed him there would be a great tourney.
Solution/ending	The Knight who should prove himself of the greatest valor the King would give the hand of the princess

Title	Coco
Author	Guy De Maupasant
Characters	Isidore, Coco, Maitre lucas
Conflict/problem	Isidore was revenge to coco because he has to give coco everyday bur coco was old and useless animal. Then isidore turtored coco until he died.
Solution/ending	The solution of this story is unclear, the master just ask isidore and his comrade to bury coco then story is end.

Title	The Baroness
Author	Guy de Maupassant
Characters	Boisrene, Mme. Samoris, A man, Mlle. Isabelle
Conflict/problem	When mme. Samoris get commercial crisis, and she do not know where she get money to have made the marriage of her daughter.
Solution/ending	Mme.Samoris gave back the fifty thousand fracs to the man, and bought his crucifix. Finally there was no debt again.

Title	In Strange Land
Author	Anton Chekhov
Characters	1. Kamyshev 2. Monsieur Champoun
Conflict/problem	In the dinning room, Kamyshev tell that everything which refers to the France is bad. Monsieur feels that it can be pain to hear
Solution/ending	While Monsieur decides to go back, Kamyshev say that he had lost Monsieur’s passports. He takes apologize and convinces Monsieur to live. Monsieur realizes he will never have the end

Title	The Last Leaf
Author	O Henry
Characters	Sue, Johnsy (familiar for Joanna),  Mr. Behrman,The brusque doctor
Conflict/problem	Johnsy, near death from pneumonia, lies in bed waiting for the last leaf of an ivy vine. On the brick wall she spies through her window to fall
Solution/ending	She want to recover Johnsy desire like Mr Behrman who still create a masterpiece (some scattered brushes, and a palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it  it’s Behrman’s masterpiece--he painted it [a leaf] there the night that the last leaf fell)

Title	The Skylight Room
Author	O. Henry
Characters	Mrs. Parker Mr. Toosenberry Mrs. Mclntyre Mr. Skidder Miss.Leeson Clara, Mr. Hoover, Dr. William Jackson
Conflict/ problem	Miss Leeson was collapse in her room because she hungry and suffering, she did not have money to buy some food.
Solution/ending	Dr. William Jackson  brought Miss Leeson to the hospital. He treat miss leeson till her condition got better.

Title	True Love
Author	Isaac Asimov
Characters	Joe Milton Davidson
Conflict/ problem	Milton Davidson wanted to find his true love. He asked joe to find a woman who apropriate with him. Then, after find a woman who match with Milton, Joe have same feeling with Milton in a same woman.
Solution/ending	Milton asked police to catched Joe.

Title	The Necklace
Author	Guy de Maupassant
Characters	Mme. Forestier Mme. Loisel Mme. Loisel’s husband
Conflict/ problem	Mme.Loisel and her husband just a poor family who di not have much money. Mme. Loisel borrowed the mme. Forestier Necklace to use in a party. Then, the necklace was lost .
Solution/ending	Mme. Loisel and her husband worked hard till ten years to buy another necklace for Mme. Forestier

Title	The Sniper
Author	Liam O’Flaherty
Characters	The sniper The Sniper’s brother
Conflict/ problem	The sniper wanted to attack his enemy, he always ready to shoot his enemy. Then, when the enemy came, he shoot directly his enemy and he saw that his enemy was his brother.
Solution/ending	The Sniper’s brother was dead and the sniper was sad of it.

Title	Her Lover
Author	Maxim Gorky
Characters	Teresa The writer Bolest
Conflict/ problem	The writer hated Teresa because teresa was so strange for him. Then, teresa always ask the writer’s help to read her letter that about someone who in love with teresa. The writer was so confused and astonisment about the letter.
Solution/ending	Finally, the writer knew that the letter which always his got just a letter of teresa. Teresa just like to make imaginary person to amuse herself

Title	A Clean, Well Lighted Place
Author	Ernest Hemingway
Characters	An old man A young servant Another servant
Conflict/ problem	An Old man stay in a long time in a cafe. A young servant and another argued that they must drive out an old man because the time was show that the cafe must be closed. However, an old man did not want to go and wanted to stay there.
Solution/ending	Finally, an old man went home and he did not want to go in other cafe.

Title	Jailer Jailed
Author	Anton Chekov
Characters	Alexey Timofeyevich Balbinsky Natasha Lvovna Balbinsky’s friend
Conflict/ problem	Balbinsky told to his frien about his wife. His wife was like an arrogant person, and Balbinsky was so dissapointed of it. he like jailer jailed. He wanted to go out, and his friend gave him advice, a way to leave his wife.
Solution/ending	Finally, Balbinsky went home and he did not want to leave his wife

Title	A Man Who Had No Eyes
Author	Mackinlay Kantor
Characters	Markwardt Mr. Parson
Conflict/ problem	Two man encounter each other on the street, quite by accident. One is blind and other is an insurance salesman. It is the irony of fate that brings these two man together in a place.
Solution/ending	Finally, Markwardt told Mr.Parson that he was blind too.

Title	A Married Man's Story
Author	Katherine Mansfield
Characters	1. Husband, the narrator 2. Wife 3. Baby 4. The narrator's father, a chemist. 5. The narrator's mother, weakened and broken by childbirth, unable to leave her room up until her death
Conflict/problem	The husband is bored with the marriage but he cannot leave his wife because they are “bound”.
Solution/ending	The husband’s father has a mistress, and on one occasion he feels some kind of moment of intense bond with life, alone in his room.