The elements of a short story include; character, setting, plot, tone, and theme. ... Setting This story takes place out west on a farm in a place called McPherson county. ... I believe she's right and it could effect them as adults if they never leave the farm because, eventually they"re going to need to go to the city to for something and they"re going to need to know what to do. Plot I believe that the plot of this story is about the way William Tavener responds to Hester Tavener. ... The story includes plot, setting, characters, theme, and tone. ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

He is unable to pay back anything because his farm was not bringing in any profit. ... Plot Summary The three men were on their way to Lou's house to drop him off after ice fishing with Jacob, they drove off the road trying to escape the crossing fox. ... As the plot evolves further more deaths occur. ... Plots to team up to eliminate one of the partners begin to evolve. ... A while ago, during their childhood it was a profitable and successful farm. ...

• Word Count: 2209
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The protagonist will determine in which direction the plot will grow. ... All these four characters add to the development of the plot and each character is as crucial as the other. ... She had a mental problem because she could not get used to living on a open farm where she lived because she was accustomed to living in a large city. ... The plot of any story is the main character has a problem and must solve it. ... With the three essential elements, the proper characters, the plot or problem and the solution a mystery story is most successful. ...

• Word Count: 1475
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• Grade Level: High School

To become a story, a literary piece must have eight elements of fiction: Plot, Setting, Point of View, Characterization, Style/Tone, Theme, Conflict, and Symbols. ... O"Connor was no stranger to the country for the reason that she did grow up in the south and on a 500 acre dairy farm (Charters, 1116). ...

• Word Count: 443
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A few fiction novels he wrote include Bumene Days in 1934, A Clergyman's Daughter in 1935, Keep the Aspidistra Flying in 1936, Coming up for Air in 1936, and his first successful novel, Animal Farm in 1945 (Des Chenes 139-151). In this political fable, animals who live on a farm drive out their exploitative human masters and set up their own society. ... He intended Animal Farm to depict the inevitable course of all revolutions, though the Soviet Union was the primary target. ... Most reviewers though, say that the plot of the book closely parallels events in the Soviet Union. ... Smy...

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• Grade Level: High School

Rivera uses vocabulary and syntax rigorously controlled so it caters to the actual style of the Mexican-American migrant farm worker. The film, in my opinion, has a more traditional plot with rising action, climax, and resolution. ... Rivera mentions many other short stories like the Garcia family who did not have enough money to buy their kids toys; the car accident caused by the Anglo women killing 16 people including many farm workers who had been picking spinach that day; the comadres who did not know where Utah was located. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the analyzation of short stories, the reader uses a brief imaginative narrative unfolding a single incident and a chief character by means of plot, the details so compressed and the whole treatment so organized, a single impression results. ... The lesson taught by the author through the actions of the protagonist in the plot either through what the protagonist does or does not do. ... Because Rip always chooses to do the chores of others, the dilapidated Van Winkle home never gets fixed and the fields, never farmed. ... Six other criteria plot, central idea, setting, tone, language and nar...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The story begins the main character's development without any gender or a name. as the story develops and the characters escape Master Selby's farm, new identities were taken on. ... These events persuaded the audience that this main character is a boy but towards the end of the story is where you find the plot twist. ...

• Word Count: 541
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• Grade Level: High School

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived. ... They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ... As the plot thickens, it's understood that the cause of all these restrictions and social barriers are those known as The Council of Scholars. ...

• Word Count: 1049
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

After about five weeks of caring and nurturing the pig, Wilber is sent off to her uncle's farm to eventually be slaughtered for Christmas dinner. ... This novel is appropriate for grade levels 3-5 because of the length, word use and plot. ...

• Word Count: 849
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• Grade Level: High School

The story we will be looking at is The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross; but first, a brief overview of the plot is in order. ... They live on a farm in a very secluded area. John works fifteen-hour days on the farm by himself. ... John and Ann are kind of like Adam and Eve, the farm they live on is kind of like the garden, and Anne's temptation with Stephen is kin of like Eve's temptation to eat the apple. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The very fact that Morgenstern chose to name the leading lady "Buttercup- makes it difficult for the reader to take her or her love very seriously, especially when she originally calls her true love by the name "farm boy."" ... In romantic settings, plots are governed by chance rather than a rational course of events, and the fate of the story is, of course, a happy ending. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The perception of this novel is certainly more modern but the plot and the properties are most definitely of Hardy's time. ... Another example of this is when Tess was forced to work at Flintcomb-Ash Farm which was described as hard and barren land, "which was almost sublime in its dreariness" (Pg. 358). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The plot of the novel is basically about isolation and the struggle to survive not directly a nuclear war but the after effects. ... Her farm upbringing has equipped her with a great deal of common sense, practicality and resourcefulness. ...

• Word Count: 1030
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School