A Shocking Accident is a shorty story in Open road. It was written by Graham Greene.
It tells about Jerome and his father’s death.
Jerome was called into his housemaster’s room on a Tuesday morning. Housemaster, Mr Wordsworth told him to sit. He told Jerome that his aunt had called. He had some bad news to tell. Mr Wordsworth said that Jerome’s father had been in a serious accident in Naples. It was a street accident, and his father had died in it.

Jerome thought, first, that his father was shot, but Wordsworth finally told what had happened. ”Your father was in a poorer quarters of the city of Naples. There, the pigs are kept on the balcony. Your father was walking down the street when in a block of flats fell from the fifth floor pig on top of him. ”

Jerome appreciated and adored his father. His father was a writer. Jerome thinks that his father’s death was a comic. When he told about the school’s friends, he realized how it affects others. His father death after, him began to treat unreasonable, such as pigs.

Jerome loved her father. He has in possession of the album, which was a picture-postcards, and it eased her pain when her aunt began chatting with strangers on his father’s death.
His aunt would start, ”it was a tragic accident.” And people feels for compassion.
Jerome realized suddenly that rambling speech can be real. Him all his father’s death was terrible. He did not understand how it could permit such a civilized country. Her aunt had replied that ”I expect that Italy can be considered civilized.
Abroad happening all sorts of things, and my brother was hard to travel. He always filtered the water, because it was cheaper than buying mineral water. He was a careful man, but who could expect that when he is on his way to the Hydrographic Museum, he would die on the way? No one.”

Jerome has practised to tell his father’s death, to a short extent. In his view, there were two ways.

”Someone once told me, that in Naples always feels at home when you go to the rivers in Naples and New York in the same way. Where was I? In Naples, of course! Naples is poor. No washing or bed linens.
Livestock, pigs and chickens kept on balconies. Animals were not allowed to exercise and they fattens faster. I have no idea how heavy pig can be, but in Naples, the buildings are in need of repair. Balcony on the fifth floor gave out and pig bounced off the third-floor balcony on the street. My father was on his way Hydrographic Museum and the pig fell on top of him. The height and angle of broke his neck.”

The other method Jerome rehearsed had the virtue of brevity:
”My father was killed by a pig.”
”Really? In India?”
”No, in Italy.”
”How interesting. I never realized there was pig-sticking in Italy. Was your father keen on polo?”

In course of time, Jerome was become the accountant and he got engaged with Sally, who was twenty-five years old and his father was a doctor.

Jerome was concerned. He was fond of picture-postcards. He felt a longing to protect their memories. They were going to get married, and Sally, of course, wanted to know everything that was Jerome. Jerome was forced to tell Sally, his father’s death, even though he was afraid to laugh. But Sally was not laugh, but showed his regret.

Short story was very interesting and it is focused on the content of Jerome’s father in an accident. The content of the short story was very well written, and it was used for the imagination. I think the end is slightly open, but it is nice. I liked the story too, and I think it fits all.