Search results
“Cemetery Path” Summary. Ivan is a timid little man. The villagers mock him by calling him “Pigeon” or “Ivan the Terrible.” He stops at a tavern every night. Everyone knows he won’t walk through the cemetery, even though it would save time. On a cold winter night, the patrons start jeering Ivan.
Leonard Ross's 'Cemetery Path' is a story centered entirely on the concept of fear. Analyze the short story by viewing it through its characters, setting, plot, and tone.
A young Cossack lieutenant dares Ivan to cross the cemetery that night for five gold rubles. Ivan accepts the challenge, taking the lieutenant's saber. In the howling wind, Ivan crosses the cemetery and drives the saber into the ground by a large tomb.
CEMETERY PATH Leo Rosten Ivan was a timid little man—so timid that saber is in the ground—five gold rubles to the villagers called him “Pigeon” or you!” mocked him with the title, “Ivan the Ivan took the saber. The men Terrible.” Every night Ivan stopped in at drank a toast: “To Ivan the Terrible!”
"Cemetery Path" by Leonard Q. Ross Ivan was a timid little man-so timid that the villagers called him "Pigeon" or mocked him with the title "Ivan the Terrible." Every night Ivan stopped in at the saloon which was on the edge of the village cemetery. Ivan never crossed the cemetery to get to his lonely shack on the other side.
- 100KB
- 3
Leonard Q. Ross’s Cemetery Path is a suspenseful and a mystery short story that tells the predicament of a middle-aged Russian man, in the nineteenth century who is looked with an extraordinary choice that demonstrates that he is not a timid man and that he can do anything.
People also ask
What is Leonard Ross's 'Cemetery path' about?
How does Ivan walk through the cemetery gate?
Why does Ivan refuse to walk through the cemetery?
Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish: ליאָ קאַלװין ראָסטען ; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography.
