Characterization allows the character in the story to have a personality and in this case both stories have pride in them, which is the theme of the story. ... Since a man is killed in a grove in a hollow in the mountains where it is dark. ... The sudden onslaught of the cold wind made them all shiver in their hearts, but they tramped on (532) This depressing sentence makes the reader feel sympathy towards the communist because of the harsh conditions they had to go. ... At the sight of that ugly and vicious face, which seemed to symbolize the cruelty c(535) Telling all the negative s...

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• Grade Level: High School

Authors often use naturalism to illustrate a situation in which a single character or group of characters are subject to the laws of nature that are beyond their control including God, nature, and people. ... The regionalism demonstrates the western setting in which the characters are in. ... Landmarks of the narrative exhibit the site of the story's background. 3 In that advanced season the party soon passed out of the moist, temperate regions of the foothills into the dry, cold, bracing air of the Sierras. (Harte 396) The Sierra Mountains are spoken of as the background of th...

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• Grade Level: High School

The war takes place in the mountains that sit back beyond the plains. ... It is within these months that the narrator describes the cold rain, and the death that immerses with the onset of cholera across the land. ... There are no main characters mentioned during the exposition. ... Later in the year, the couple move outside of a small village on a nearby mountain. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Through the rough times of Wolfe's childhood he witnessed his family go all the way to the top of the mountain and stumble right back down to the bottom numerous times and it was that which gave him the drive to escape that tumble his family was in and achieve his dream on his own. ... In this book, George Webber, the main character, has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. ... H...

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