FORM OF THE STORY

As far as my reading is concerned, I considered this story as a short story because it reflects all features of short story and those features are as under ;

INCIDENT:

The range of the short story in respect of the incident is practically unlimited.Every subject between heaven or earth is fittted for the short story.Genrally,the incident of the story is taken fromthe society.The writer of short story selectes significant detail from life and added flesh and blood to the skelton of the story.The writer reveals the secret of life in his story.And makes life worth living. The incident may be real or imangiry.The real incident includes contemporary problems of the society and world as well as human emotion feeling jealousy etc.Here the present story "THe mystery of missing cap" is based on real incident observed by the author himself. It reflect the real emotion and feelings of a character.
PLOT:

Plot can be cosidered as an arrangement of events. It should be considered as the back-bone. The plot presents the entired sequence events. The plot of the story should be simple.The problem of life presented in the story should be capable of suggesting a solution. THe character must be able to find ways to solve it. So ending of the story reports the result of the character's final decision about how to solve the problem which may include a change in major character.Heere in the present story "THE MYSTERY OF MISSING CAP"becomes an act of surprise for the villagers but at the beginning of the story the writer presents the ideal picture of pollitical world butat the end the real nature of political world come out.

EXPOSITION:

It is the begining of the story and it introduces the characters and its motives to direct method and indirect method.In the present story the author used direct method.He presents the story in front of us directly in the begining he introduces to main characters Shri Moharana and Babu virkishore.

DEVELOPMENT OFACTION:

After exposition development begins, the story expands the event the character start their actions.In this story Shri Moharana makes an arrangementof the fifiteen August and the plot gradually developed.

CONFLICT:-

In the development of plot difficulties begin to arrive.This conflict various spons.It may be between desire the character .This conflict is the core story structure.

CLIMAX:

The conflict has to reach at climax.There is a pain in the story.The heroe's conflict turns into consequences and the story reaches its climax.

DENOUENMENT:

It refers to the end of the story the complcation that had arrision earlier now are solved.

CHARACTER:

Thecharacter of the short story is the soul of the story or oneof the main features.The character faces a problem of life and he finds solution sometime conciously or unconciously. Every thing that happens in the story comes to the reader to his senses when the reader identify himself emotionally intellectually.THen the story is completely believable and capable of being experience.