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Word Count: 1501

The Spider’s Thread (Pre-Intermediate)

Dec 6, 2022

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Genre: Philosophical

Setting: Japan

New Vocabulary: Buddha, Crawl, Demon, Evil, Heaven, Hell, Just as, Needle, Suffer, Take a few liberties, Thread, Truly

Word Count: 1501

Original Author: Ryuunosuke Akutagawa

Kandata was an evil thief when was alive, and now he lives in Hell. Buddha remembers a time when Kandata did good, and decides to give him a chance to show that he isn’t truly evil. Will Kandata become good, or is he simply a bad person?