Write a very short story - not more than 200 words - about a
trip to the doctor or dentist using the ABDCE structure. Identify the
structural elements in your story.
A – Action, B – Background, D – Development, C – Climax, E –
Ending
183 word count
His arm was broken; he was sure
of it. (A) There had been times when he wondered if the abuse from his father’s fists
might have broken something in his body, but this time was different. (B) For a
while, he had thought that every father slapped, punched, and hurt children. (D) One Day, when he was six, he had gone to school feeling sick and dizzy. His
teacher had sent him to the school nurse who asked him if he had hit his head
recently. He told her how the night before his dad had picked him up by his
arms and slammed his head against the wall and how he deserved it because he
hadn’t washed the dishes like he was s’posed to.(C) The nurse cried, which
confused him, and told him that dads shouldn’t do that to their children. She
told him he would start to feel better in a couple of days, and he should go
see a doctor. He hadn’t gone to see a doctor then, but he had a feeling he
would need to this time. (E)