Often, people are defined by the place that they are from, which is based on what people have heard and discovered themselves about that particular place. ... For example if I was to tell someone about how I grew up in Australia, they would make the assumption that I have money, go to school, live in a house and have a smaller family. ... Tim Winton expresses how loud the family is by revealing "The Macedonian family shouted, ranted, screamed" and the size of their family was expressed through "On the Macedonian side of the fence, a small queue of bleary, faces looking up, cheer...

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It is easy for Neville to like the place, because the people there try to do everything to make him happy and make him feel comfortable. ... Neville sees Thakali, his wife and son and the rest of the people there as ingenious villagers of a small, unspoiled mountain society. ... These people know how to appreciate just the small things. ... He would not ruin the peaceful quietness of this area with tourists from America and Europe who would think they owned the place. ... The important thing of globalization is to avoid the world being built up by small countries, that do not work together and...

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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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The people in the short story and movie The Birds, not only feared the bloody peck of a bird, but feared that this small creature could take their life. ... In the short story "The Birds" the setting took place right after World War II in London, England. While in the movie, the attacks took place in Bodega Bay right outside of San Francisco. ...

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A Sense of Place" states that Eudora "likes well-traveled roads." ... The Gale Group states that the majority of Eudora's stories take place "within a time spectrum of over a century, on or near the Natchez Trace." They also stated "These stories are mostly about country people, and whatever the setting, Eudora Welty has been accurate in her depiction of social structures that go with place and time" ("Eudora Alice Welty" par. 10). ... The setting of the story was along the Natchez Trail, which is a place that Welty knew much about, and the name Phoenix Jackson was linked to Eudora&#x...

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The story begins in a small store that, also, served as a courtroom for the Justice Of The Peace in the rural area where the story commences. ... They leave the store, and travel in their wagon to the next place where the family sets up house for their next position as sharecroppers. ... Several days later, Sarty goes with his father in their wagon to another small rural grocery store, and once again, Sarty's father is in trouble with the law. ...

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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 Lottery" portrays life in a small town, where everyone knows everybody. ... Also, the drawing has always taken place in the morning in the town square (so that they could make it home for noon lunch). ... After one family draws the black dotted paper, another drawing takes place. ... There are many rules as to what family member can draw in place of another. ... The small village consists of around three hundred people, all of whom seem apt to think what they had been conditioned to for their entire lives. ...

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The setting in the motion picture is a small coastal town in California that is quite a distance away from the nearest city. ... These places are both sites that are attacked by the birds and where the characters are isolated from every other person in the town because if they try to leave they will be attacked and probably killed by the birds. ... Near this setting is one very small scene that shows isolation more than any other throughout the rest of the movie. ... The setting in the story is also a small coastal town but it is near London, England instead of in California. ... The first ...

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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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While struggling with his now tainted ideas of masculinity, the main characters father portrays his masculinity by authority when he puts his son in his place by slapping him down when disrespecting his mother (106). ... He has witness several different women portrayed in the same light; small, desperate, and dependent. ... After being shown that women are nothing more than a possession, he also finds women to be small and stupid, having witnesses a Skytop crew pull a bikini top from a girl stupid enough to hang out alone and taunted her with it (105). ... The main character is now the one w...

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Shirley Jackson's short story presents us with a view of the inhumanity, unfairness, and cruelty in the world. She draws on the fact that everyone, no matter if traditionally or spontaneously done, has some form of cruelty or unfairness within themselves and also how society influences the action of...

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"The Lottery"; A Very Symbolic Story "The Lottery" is a story that Shirley Jackson uses to express her own views of mankind's evil nature through a tradition such as the lottery performed in this small town. ... She "hurriedly slid" into place as if she was going to miss a big show. ...

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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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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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The villagers make small talk laughing quietly amongst one another while at the same time maintaining a slight seriousness. ... Adam's makes a remark that, ". . . over in the north village they"re talking of giving up the lottery" (4) and that, "Some places have already quit lotteries" (4). ... Although this exact custom does not take place today, it is a symbol for similar activities and the message instilled within the story holds true. ... The event takes place on June 27, a time where nature is at its highest peek. ...

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Summers was committed to keeping a tradition, for he was head of the lottery and other organizations throughout his small community. ... Adams mentioned that places had already quit the lottery. ... The story shows enough evidence that the small town was occupied with the majority of the people being followers; therefore, they will pursue the traditions that they have always practiced. ... Some traditions should be stopped; moreover, a need for change should take place, but it doesn't happen that way. ...

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As people began to visit Emily's decayed fragile body, the imagery Faulkner uses is, " The rose when she entered- a small, fat woman in black with a thin gold chain descending to her waisther skeleton was small and spare" (Faulkner 300). ... Based how Emily is described in the story when she was dead as pale, drowned, small and skeletal. ... Next, as the story unfolds, the mindset of the townspeople or 'society' shows that they were disgusted with this character when, " the next day he [the mayor] received two more complaints'send her word to have her place ...

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She wasn't faring any better than her surroundings, as, "her skeleton was small and spare... ... The short story, "Barn Burning" was the story of an itinerant family of farm laborers moved from place to place after the violent pyromaniac father, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employer's barn. ...

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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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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a short story, written in 1948 and takes place in a small town, on June 27th. ... She tries to go as far as to try and have her daughter and son-in-law takes her place instead, she yells "There's Don and EvaMake them take their chance!...

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The inhabitants of Yellow Sky are not aware that any grand shift is taking place as they "innocent and unsuspecting to his actions" (252). ... The story raises its action another level when Jack returns home with his wife and finds Scratchy in "one of these tears" (255), drunk and ready to shoot up the place. ... This is evidence to support the theme; this small, dusty town is slowly becoming modernized and moving away from the life of the old west to that of the East. ...

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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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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School