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The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky

 

            The bride comes to yellow Sky by Stephen Crane.
             Type of story: a story of fighting and rough adventure.
             Setting: the town of Yellow Sky, Texas.
             Plot: Jack potter is the sheriff and hero of a small dusty town. He is returning home by train accompanied by his new wife. As he approaches his home, Scratchy Wilson challenges him to a duel. Jack is forced to decline because he does not have his gun and he is in the presence of his new bride. Scratchy Wilson walks away dejected.
             Characters:.
             Jack Plotter - town marshal of Yellow Sky, returning home with his new bride.
             Scratchy Wilson - the town drunk who loves a duel.
             Theme: .
             This is a transition from experience to innocence. A portion of Jack's life is missing which will make him whole - he wants to become a family man. Jack is experienced in his work and is respected by the town. However, he is nave at marriage. .
             Jack lacks experience with the courting of a woman never mind being married and as a result is struggling with the transformation. He is even worried about how the town's people will accept his new bride and hastens her home in order to avoid being seen. The fact that Jack is now a family man with more personal response means he is no longer interested in duels. Scratchy Wilson realizes this and is forced to walk away from the new Jack Potter.
             Style: vivid imagery.
             Point of view: 3rd person, omniscient.
             Vocabulary: .
             Evince - (vt) to show plainly .
             Adobe - (n) sun dried brick.
             Commensurately.
             Fatuously - (adv) smugly stupid.
             Cadence - (n) a rhythmic flow of sound.
             Bard (n) a poet.
             Begot - (vt) to cause.
            


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