The use of this perspective allows the reader to feel as though they are part of the community; this involvement gives the reader a better understanding of the events taking place, and makes the stories seemingly more reliable. ... "A Rose for Emily" takes place in the small, southern community of Jefferson after the American Civil War. ... Robinson's "Richard Cory" also takes place in a small town, although the exact time and place are unknown. ... The community places him on a pedestal; they look at him from the pavement (Robinson 2) as though he is floating above th...

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She was born in a small town in Arkansas. ... Greene probably understood how people felt and what was to come of them if they were an outcast in a small town. I feel that she wrote these books because she wanted other people to realize how things are in small towns. ... Both of them are set in small towns where outsiders are not often accepted if they are "different" from the people who live there. ... The people in the church were mean, so the church was not seen as a very friendly or accepting place any more. ...

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A literary symbol can be a person, place or thing within a story that has suggested meanings beyond its literal meaning. ... He uses an extremely small fire, just large enough for cooking and light in the evening but at the same time, the father uses a massive fire to set a barn ablaze. ... The small fires were used by the father during is time in the Civil War as a way of having just enough fire for camp and still avoid detection from the Confederate or Union troops that may bee looking for him. ... Thus the mansion symbolizes an untouchable safe place from Sarty's father. ...

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This makes the poem more meaningful than if it never took place. ... This is very childlike, very much something a small little girl would do. ... The fact that the young girl is a child is reiterated again when the word "small" is used to describe her. ... This is precisely what is happening at the time the story is taking place. ... Even though her mother was trying to protect her, all she has left of her daughter is a small piece of her innocence. ...

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The action of the story takes place in United States of America, somewhere at South, probably in California. ... The structure of the text is quite hard to define, as the given text is an extract, consisting of seven relatively small paragraphs. ... Though describing life of working men in a small town, the story is quite lyrical. ...

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The different apartment complexes mentioned in the story create the image of the father being someone who constantly moves from place to place. ... At his apartment, the pool is "smaller than it sounded on the phone," and the front lawn has "patches of bright-green grass," (pg 32) which the son shamefully proclaims upon arriving at this industrial slum of a neighborhood. ... Where the "fridge [is] empty except for ketchup," and there are "his old Playboys," (pg 36) to read; this place has obviously seen some better days than this. ...

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The words "Frigate like a Book" (1) help the reader understand that a book, though small in size, is capable or delivering vast amounts of knowledge. ... In the overstatement "To take us Lands away" (2), Dickinson does not actually mean that a book carries one to another place as a vehicle does. The overstatement is actually referring to the way one's mind imagines being in a different place when reading a book. ... For instance, she writes, "How frugal is the Chariot" (7) to suggest that a book is a cheap way to move one's body to another place. ...

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Empathy is when you put yourself in someone else's place, which causes you to realize how a person feels in a certain situation or everyday life. ... That was the largest obstacle he had to overcome which included more, smaller events and obstacles. ...

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Winton has concentrated some of his views to be the importance of family, the importance of place, understanding each other, nature and spiritual world and Aboriginality. ... But the quote at the end of the prologue "from the broad vaults and spaces you can see it all again because it never ceases to be" (pg 3) gives us a small clue as to how the story if turned back to the past. ... The chapters and sub-chapters in the novel help to shape the events in the novel from a conflict to a resolution and also enabled the readers to see the importance of family and the importance of place. ... Sub...

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Winton has concentrated some of his views to be the importance of family, the importance of place, understanding each other, nature and spiritual world and Aboriginality. ... But the quote at the end of the prologue "from the broad vaults and spaces you can see it all again because it never ceases to be" (pg 3) gives us a small clue as to how the story if turned back to the past. ... The chapters and sub-chapters in the novel help to shape the events in the novel from a conflict to a resolution and also enabled the readers to see the importance of family and the importance of place. ... Sub...

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Winton has concentrated some of his views to be the importance of family, the importance of place, understanding each other, nature and spiritual world and Aboriginality. ... But the quote at the end of the prologue "from the broad vaults and spaces you can see it all again because it never ceases to be" (pg 3) gives us a small clue as to how the story if turned back to the past. ... The chapters and sub-chapters in the novel help to shape the events in the novel from a conflict to a resolution and also enabled the readers to see the importance of family and the importance of place. ... Sub...

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The setting of the story takes place at the family's home, in their living room. ... In the beginning of the story he uses it to place the setting "The night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of a Tabrisam villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly". ...

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People, places and situations from Wolfe's life inevitably found their way into his fiction. ... Look Homeward Angel, one of Wolfe's many successful novels, is an elaborate and moving coming of age story about Eugene Gant, a restless and energetic character whose passion to experience life takes him from his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to Harvard University and the city of Boston (Champion 76). The novel's pattern is artfully simple, a small town, a large family, high school and college yet the characters are monumental in their graphic individuality and personality....

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The natives to the island of Lilliput are very small. Gulliver first encounters the small people after a shipwreck. ... This idea of characters smaller than normal carries over into many other fictional stories, two of which are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. ... These creatures both big and small are fictional as well as the civilized, talking horses in Houyhnhnm territory. ... Gulliver's Travels takes place in the early 1700's. ...

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How the Yellow Wall Paper Drives the Main Character Insane At the beginning of the story, the character seems fairly normal. She actually seems like a misunderstood wife of a doctor. The only thing that she finds wrong with the house is the ugly wallpaper. It's funny how a small annoyance like...

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the lottery It is hard to believe that the author could turn such a seemingly pleasurable and exhilarating thing, a lottery, around to a terrible and non-delightful act. I think that the description of the setting has a lot to do with how people will perceive the story. Shirley Jackson takes great...

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Upon a visiting a favorite place of drink, the narrator discovers another black cat, with an uncanny resemblance to the former, missing eye and all. ... The couple moves to a tenement, smaller in size and with a separate cellar downstairs. ... This smaller setting compresses the story. ...

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Thinking of her constantly, even in the most unromantic places like shopping with his aunt in the market place or standing in the small back room where the priest had died, obsesses him. ... The bazaar is dark and empty; it thrives on the Meyer 3 same profit motive as the market place: "Two men were counting money on a salver" (Joyce 479). ...

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Hannah is able to find a starting point of the endless rumors and disastrous events that take place in her life, and that starting point lies in the hands of a fellow student at their school. ... Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. ... This makes it simple for the reader to place themselves in the characters' shoes in order to have a complete understanding of the feelings of guilt, helplessness, and pure sadness of which both characters experience throughout the novel. ... Each star on the map is the location of where an event took place that molded her decision....

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The story takes place in Redding, Connecticut during the Revolutionary War, about 1776 to 1779. ... Some historical events from the story such as the British raid on Redding, where houses were burned down and a small battle took place, and the execution of Edward Jones and John Smith occurred during the war. ...

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The epic takes place in Denmark, and a dark gloomy underground swamp. ... In comparison, The Thirteenth Warrior, takes place in similar settings. ... The two themes are almost identical, but they have some small differences. ...

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Mathlide's downfall comes into place when she does not tell Mrs. ... Reality meaning the husband she has, and the small household she resides in. ... Pride comes to place when she is complaining to her husband about the way they live and how she deserves more (3). ...

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A Kid's Life: Alberto Alvaro Rios's "The Secret Lion" "The Secret Lion" depicts two twelve year old kids as adventurous young voyagers that want to find out what's so good about things adults keep from them. The author, Alberto Alvaro Rios, shows the reader how a child can take something small and ...

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This short story demonstrates unique traits of science fiction including advanced technology, alternate places, special powers and incorporated science. ... In contrast, one of A Sound of Thunder's themes is that one small change can make a difference over time. ...

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In spite of this he still wins first place because his mom sends him extra equipment right in time. ... Homer and his friends are nobody's from a small mining town, and they win National's for their rocket. ...

• Word Count: 559
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• Grade Level: High School