Studying short stories can seem a Herculean task especially when one does t for the first time. However, this need not be the case. This book examines the FIRST FIVE stories in A SILENT SONG AND OTHER STORIES ED. BY GODWIN SIUNDU by outlining the most crucial aspects of the short story - SETTING, CONFLICT, THEME and STYLE so that the reader examines them one by one. This makes the study of the short story both exciting and easy. Also, the book (and the other volumes in this collection) uses questions to make it easier for the reader to interpret written a story in terms of the ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE - PLOT, THEMES, CHARACTERS and STYLE. By the end of this venture, the reader does not only understand the stories thoroughly but can also answer literary questions on them and participate confidently in criticisms of these stories. These skills can easily be applied to other short stories, short story collections as well as other genres of literature