The Marble Finger
Before You Read
1. Before you read try this exercise
2. Here is what someone says in the story - but the words have been joined together.
Can you separate them?
onHalloweenthosestatuesstanduptogether.
Andasthechurchclockstrikes
eleventheywalkoutofthechurch door.
The Marble Finger
Complete simplified version here
Understanding
Part one
1, What is the name of the narrator (the person telling the story)
a) Kelly b) we are not told c) Brenzett d) Mr Dorman
2. What is the name of the narrator's wife
a) Mrs Dorman b) we are not told c) Laura d) Kelly
3) Why are there statues of 'wicked men' in the church.
a) they are ghosts b) they were friends of the bishop c) they gave money to the church.
4. Put these events in the order they happened.
a) Laura is happy at breakfast.
b) The narrator goes out of the cottage to smoke his pipe.
c) The narrator returns to the church and finds the statues missing.
d) Mrs Dorman leaves the cottage.
e) Kelly enters the church with the narrator.
f) Laura begins to feel ill.
Activities
Writing
You are Dr Kelly. Write a letter to a friend describing what happened to Laura.
Discussion
Do you believe the story of the marble finger?
What do you think really happened to Laura?
You are Dr Kelly. Write a letter to a friend describing what happened to Laura.
Discussion
Do you believe the story of the marble finger?
What do you think really happened to Laura?
About this story
'The Marble
Finger' is based on a classic horror
story, Man Made in
Marble (1893) by Edith Nesbit's.
Nesbit also wrote the children's novel, 'The
Railway Children'.
Answers
| on
Halloween those statues stand up
together.
And as the church clock strikes eleven they walk out of the church door. How much did you understand? Part one 1, What is the name of the narrator (the person telling the story) b) we are not told 2. What is the name of the narrator's wife c) Laura 3) Why are there statues of 'wicked men' in the church c) they gave money to the church Part two Put these events in the order they happen. 1. d) Mrs Dorman leaves the cottage 2. a) Laura is happy at breakfast 3 f) Laura begins to feel ill 4 b) the narrator goes out of the cottage to smoke his pipe. 5 c) the narrator returns to the church and finds the statues missing) 6. e) Kelly enters the chuch with the narrator |
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