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THE RAILWAY

CROSSING

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SUMMARY

A TASK

WORD

C TASK

CONNECTOR

B TASK

PASSAGE

D TASK

AUTHOR

E TASK

EXPOSITION

The main character of this story is Dustan Thwaite. He

works in a company and he steals money from the

company's books for his wedding ceremony.

This is when he plans to pay back the money

that he stole, one of his colleagues, who is

called Dunn, notices Thwaite's theft and starts

blackmails him.

COMPLICATION

CLIMAX

This is when he invites Dunn to his home and

he tricks him with sleep powder. He plans to

get him out, kill him outside and throw him to

the rail lines.

FALLING ACTION

This is when he invites Dunn to his home and he tricks him

with sleep powder. He plans to get him out, kill him outside and

throw him to the rail lines.

CONNECTOR

TASK

B

Connector Task

The event in history that reminds us of our reality is the

fact of the economic corruption that has always existed

in Spain, for example.

In it, the story also happens the same as in real life, the

fact that alcohol harms us negatively.

Sleeping

powders

Meaning : medicines designed to help you fall asleep or stay asleep, and are sometimes used to help treat insomnia.

Whisky

Meaning: A strong alcoholic drink made from grain

Blackmail

Meaning: The act of getting money from people or forcing them to do something by threatening to tell a secret of theirs or to harm them

WORD TASK

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Railway

crossing

Meaning : Where a railway crosses a road or right of way on the level

Alibi

Meaning: A claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, especially a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.

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Passage 1

So Thwaite stole a thousand pounds, by changing the

figures in the company's books. He planned to put the

money back after he was married, but someone

discovered that it was missing.

Thwaite kept quiet. Another man was thought to be the

thief, and he lost his job. Thwaite still said nothing.

It was not a new idea. Weeks before, he had thought

about what could happen there. The idea came when

the doctor gave him some powders to help him sleep.

He thought about giving Dunn enough of them to kill

him, but then he got a better idea. Although he was

afraid, Thwaite slowly realized that murder was the

only answer to his problem.

2nd Passage

AUTHOR

TASK

E

Born in Dublin and worked in railway engineering.

During a long convalescence he wrote his first novel, The Cask

(1920). Considered a classic of the detective genre, it was followed

by more than 30 detective novels, most of which featured Inspector

French of Scotland Yard.

Freeman Wills

Crofts