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IWW
Practice-W Exercise Archives
Exercise: Good Samaritan
These exercises were written
by IWW members and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its members. You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that you found them at the Internet Writers Workshop(http://www.internetwritingworkshop.org/).
Prepared by: Alice Folkart
Posted on Sun, August 12, 2012
Reposted on Sun, December 14, 2014
Reposted on Sun, November 20, 2016
Reposted on Sun, January 12, 2020
Reposted on Sun, October 9, 2022
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In 400 words or less describe a good deed and its
consequences.
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Show what happens when someone helps
someone else. Does the story end there, or go
on? Is the help useful and in time? Is it
embarrassing?
Some people are afraid to do a good deed, afraid
that it will involve them in someone else’s life.
Some people are afraid to help an injured person
because they could be sued by that person or
her family, injuries blamed on their efforts?
What would happen if we helped a little old man
who has fallen down on the sidewalk, or calmed
a toddler who has become separated from her
mother, or instituted a neighborhood-wide effort
to help a family in trouble? When we’ve got
money, would any of us think to anonymously
pay for the groceries of a poor mother with a
grocery cart only half full of the most basic
foods and several hungry-looking children
trailing her?
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In your critique consider whether the writer has
described both the situation and the emotions.
Do we ‘see’ the people and place? What do
we think of the character’s efforts to help
someone? Would we have done the same?
Does the piece make you want to read on and
find out what happens?
Web site created by
Rhéal Nadeau and
the administrators of the Internet Writing Workshop.
Modified by Gayle Surrette.
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