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  2. The Refusal - Wikipedia

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    The story of "Die Abweisung" involves the narration of a young boy living in a small town that is fairly distanced from its capital. The boy reflects on how the town's inhabitants humbly submit to orders issued by the capital and are led by the tax-collector, a man with the rank of colonel.

  3. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    A plot summary is a brief description of a piece of literature that explains what happens. In a plot summary, the author and title of the book should be referred to and it is usually no more than a paragraph long while summarizing the main points of the story. [40] [41]

  4. Young Goodman Brown - Wikipedia

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    "Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in 17th-century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, but that God has destined some to unconditional election through unmerited grace.

  5. Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of a plot summary is to condense a large amount of information into a short, accessible format. It is not to reproduce the experience of reading or watching the story, nor to cover every detail. For those who have not read or seen the story, it should serve as a general overview that fills in on the major points.

  6. Book report - Wikipedia

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    A book report is a summary of what a particular book is about, and typically includes: Theme and character analysis; The tone, time and also the setting of the story; The author of the book and when it was published among other key details of the book; State out quotes used to support the message being emphasized in the story

  7. Narrative - Wikipedia

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    Whereas the general assumption in literary theory is that a narrator must be present in order to develop a narrative, as Schmid proposes; [48] the act of an author writing his or her words in text is what communicates to the audience (in this case readers) the narrative of the text, and the author represents an act of narrative communication ...

  8. Authorial intent - Wikipedia

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    The author, they argue, cannot be reconstructed from a writing — the text is the primary source of meaning, and any details of the author's desires or life are secondary. Wimsatt and Beardsley argue that even details about the work's composition or the author's intended meaning and purpose that might be found in other documents such as ...

  9. Sweat (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Zora Neale Hurston, the author of "Sweat" "Sweat" is a short story by the American writer Zora Neale Hurston, first published in 1926, [1] in the first and only issue of the African-American literary magazine Fire!! The story revolves around a washerwoman and her unemployed husband.