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Summary Of The Text 'The Jaunt' By Mark Oates
The Jaunt

In this text (The Jaunt) I would like to talk about the theme and characters, which comes to expression in the text. There is two parallel – running storylines, so it can be a difficult text to understand. This text is about the Oates family who is going on a Jaunt. The family is waiting in a room and the children’s is very nervous, so their dad Mark Oates tells a story. Mark Oates tells about how the jaunt arose and how it works. He tells that it was Victor Carune who was the inventor of The Jaunt and he made a lot of experiment to complete his work. But the son Ricky is too curious about the jaunt and makes a stupid move.

In this text there are two parallel – running storylines, the father who tells the story and the real act

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