Choose a short story which sparked your interest due to a number of its features. After giving a short account of the plot, go on to examine in detail the features which sparked your interest. A story which sparked my interest due to a number of its features is 'The Jam Jar' by Sheena Blackhall. 'The Jam Jar' is about Blackhall as a teenager enjoying catching bumble bees in a jam jar. In the summer …showed first 75 words of 645 total…

…showed last 75 words of 645 total…escape. My second feature is the study of the theme of 'The Jam Jar', while reading, we encounter many different interesting themes. The first of these is - there will always be persecutors and people/things who are being persecuted. This particular theme is shown through Blackhall herself - persecutor of the bees/wasps. Therefore short story which sparked my interest due to a number of its features was 'The Jam Jar' by Sheena Blackhall.