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