The Jam Jar

Choose a short story which sparked your interest due to a number of its features. After giving a short account of the plot, go on to examine in detail the features which sparked your interest. A story which sparked my interest due to a number of its features is 'The Jam Jar' by Sheena Blackhall. 'The Jam Jar' is about Blackhall as a teenager enjoying catching bumble bees in a jam jar. In the summer …

…escape. My second feature is the study of the theme of 'The Jam Jar', while reading, we encounter many different interesting themes. The first of these is - there will always be persecutors and people/things who are being persecuted. This particular theme is shown through Blackhall herself - persecutor of the bees/wasps. Therefore short story which sparked my interest due to a number of its features was 'The Jam Jar' by Sheena Blackhall.