The assignment for this lesson is to brainstorm and prewrite three scenes about a fictional talent show. two of the contestants find they've swapped bodies and must therefore perform each other's acts. each scene will be told from a different character's perspective.

- self-esteem and a clear goal for writing

- financial security

- a room to be alone

its repetition emphasizing that the chain is his own. sorry if i am wrong.

the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.