Thurber,Thames-The unicorn in the garden: Summary

Hier ist die "Plot-Summary", die du unter servinghistory findest.
Sie ist ein Beispiel, wie eine Summary, wie sie die Schule verlangt, nicht sein soll.

Zitat:
A husband sees a unicorn in the family garden and tells his wife about it. She ridicules him, telling him "the unicorn is a mythical beast" and calling him a "booby". When he persists, she threatens to send him to the "booby hatch" the mental institution. He persists, and she summons the authorities. However, after she tells them what her husband saw, they force her into a straitjacket. They then ask the husband if he told his wife he had seen a unicorn. He tells them that he has not, because "The unicorn is a mythical beast." Thus they take the wife away instead, and "the husband lived happily ever after".

Du brauchst als erstes einen Einleitungssatz, in dem alle Fakten
der Geschichte aufgezählt werden;

Also: Die Fabel "XXX" von yyy stammt aus der Sammlung "Fables of Our Time", hier in (Fundort der Geschichte = dein Buch, Seite ..., Ort (= Sitz des Verlages) und Erscheinungsjahr)); sie handelt von einem Ehekonflikt, der für den Ehemann ein überraschend positives Ende nimmt.

Du kannst jetzt Teile der plot-summary nehmen;
beachte: du darfst nur die Gegenwart (bzw. das Perfekt für Vergangenes) nehmen, keine Zitate und keine wörtliche Rede verwenden (all diese Dinge wurden in der plot.-summary falsch gemacht.)

Du schreibst jetzt:

Zitat:
A husband sees a unicorn in the family garden , he is very happy, feeds it and tells his wife about it. She ridicules him, telling him that a unicorn is a mythical beast and does not exist, she then calls him an idiot. When he persists, she threatens to send him to an institution for mentally ill patients.. He persists, and she summons the authorities.

They come and listen to the wife, but

Zitat:
when she tells them about a golden horn, they force her into a straitjacket. They ask the returning husband if he has told his wife about a unicorn. He tells them, using the same words his wife has used before, that he has not. Thus they take the wife away instead, leaving a happy husband back alone.

Ich habe die zitierten Teile etwas verändert; so müsste es gehen.

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