So, we are fed our opinion of Emily rather than left to create it. ... By making the narrator a generic member of the town we don't tend to judge or form an opinion of him/her either. ... We come to think of the narrator as the voice of the town as a whole, and we are made to take his word as our own. ... So we are ultimately transformed into citizens of Jefferson through the narrator and through our common feelings of and for Miss Grierson Instead of focusing on actual changes within the main character, Faulkner chooses to concentrate on a change in the town's as well as the rea...

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• Grade Level: High School

Our traditions go about as a compass for our human connections and individual collaborations, the subjective encounters of our family life, and eventually, the advancement of social orders. ... There are clues all through the story to clarify why the lottery is played in the town. ... The loss of one for some, when said like this the champ of the lottery ought to feel fortunate to have the chance to spare whatever is left of the town from a hard year and expand the general essentialness of the town. ... The town ought to put a stop to it and let it blur to time. This ought to make life in this...

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The use of description shaped my views on the characters, Miss Emily's house as well as the whole town. ... The dialogue indicates a town's person is most likely the narrator. ... The narrator begins the story by telling us of Miss Emily's death and how everyone in the town attended her funeral. ... "It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. ... "When Miss Emily died, our whole town went to her funeral: t...

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• Grade Level: High School

Living in a small Dutch village in the Catskills, Van Winkle is loved by the people in his town. ... Everyone in the town was for the most part happy with Van Winkle, except for his wife. Before he takes is slumber, his wife constantly berates him for being so nice and easygoing to the rest of the town. ... He is insistent that the story is true, and that it follows historical happenings in the start of our early country. ... Rip Van Winkle might as well be one of the most famous a pieces of art ever to come out of our early country. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" The British and American line had marched close to Tarry Town during the war. The town had been the scene of raiding, plagued with exiles, dairy animals young men, and different varieties of outskirt valor. ... The response that Sleepy Hollow inhabitants need to Ichabod and his books is the same response that they have any science or some other "certainties" that come into the town. ... Our framework lives up to expectations fine and dandy without it." ... When we die, is that the end of our story? ...

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When it is decided that Tessie was going to take her position in the traditions withheld in their town, she became quite outraged as very accurately depicted in the film. ... Due to pre-judgments a lot of readers may get the impression that this town should look like something from the movie Children of The Corn, where the residence still wore Colonial or Amish style clothing. In the movie however there is depicted a small town with shops and houses alike, the inhabitants are commonly intelligent, and they dress the contemporary style as it was in the late nineteen forties. ... Characters t...

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When a hissing sound from space was amplified, the whole town became like zombies. "The whole town went nuts For no reason at all, all the cars pulled up to the curb like there was a hook and ladder going by. ... Another example of total disregard for life and property due to the mind shackling is found on (pg 182), "Susan and I arrived just in time to join the cheering as a big elm crashed down on our sedan. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of short stories set in the obscure, hick town of Winesburg, Ohio. ... After involving himself with many strange characters, George Willard realizes the town's peculiar nature and goes west in hopes of beginning a "normal" life. ... Eventually, our isolationism became obsessive to the point that America refused to join World War II until they were attacked on a home front, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main described event, the lottery, is conducted by the socially and economically dominant men in the town. ... He is a jovial man who runs the coal business and that is also the reason why he belongs to the most powerful men in the town. ... Charlie Bing also talks about appropriate attitudes towards traditions: " We can also learn to hold our traditions more loosely if it benefits others to change them. ...

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Recalling his past, he said: "That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich boy's club at Princeton...I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich and it has colored my entire life and works."... Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories-each time in a new disguise-maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen."... One critic, Glenway Wescott, said that he was "our darling, our genius, our fool"(157). ...

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A quote that easily illustrates this is: "[Roscoe] born in a place apparently ungenial to the growth of literary talent, in the very market place of trade; without fortune, family connections, or patronage; self-promoted, self-sustained, and almost self-taught, he has conquered every obstacle, achieved his way to eminence, and . . . embellished his native town" (23). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is a pretty small town and I've resided here for years, so I wouldn't be surprised if I did.... She and I both knew that our time would be up soon and when it was, our goodbyes would be final. ...

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Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" and Thomas Wolf's "The Child by Tiger" are both fictional short stories. Connell's story demonstrates a commercial fiction style of writing whereas Wolf's tale uses the literary fiction style. For a story to be commercial fiction, it must posse...

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• Grade Level: High School