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…when they actually do develop into reality, creating mocking irony. The names within the story can be considered foreshadowing themselves. For example, the name of the town where the family is murdered is called "Toombsboro." The word "Toombsboro" can…

…On January 7, 1891, Zora Neale Hurston was born in the tiny town of Notasulga, Alabama. She was the fifth of eight children in the Hurston household. Her father John was a carpenter, sharecropper, and a Baptist preacher; and her mother Lucy, a former…

…be located on the out shirt of the city to provide the residences with acceptable living space. The neighborhoods where the houses are located would resemble small towns in itself, which would contain gas stations and supermarkets. People that reside in homes…

…-Christian, and childish of character. In her tale, the Prioress tells of a small boy living in a town in Asia. It is a small town mostly inhabited by Jews. The boy is a devout Christian who is eager to learn the meaning of a song in Latin. He diligently learns…

…of American broadcasting genres. The sitcom’s success depends on the audience’s familiarity with the habitual characters and the situations to which they are exposed, such as life in the home, the workplace or some other common location. In the film Pleasantville…

…that, regulation prohibited free settlers and even casual visitors to be within 50 miles radius of Ipswich. In 1843 ‘Limestone’ was renamed ‘Ipswich’ after the town on the river Orwell in Suffolk, England. Its official name was ‘Ipswich on the plateau at Limestone…

…cannon and armor and abandon the town. It was only the arrival of the new governor, Lord De La Ware, and his supply ships that brought the colonists back to the fort and the colony back on its feet. Then when Pocahontas, the favored daughter of the Algonquian…

…The Journey On a frozen day in December, Eudora Welty, in her story A Worn Path, introduces us to an old black woman named Phoenix Jackson. She begins a long and arduous journey through the woods and over the hills on her way into town. She talks…

…and believes that he will be found innocent. Instead, Tom Robinson is found guilty. Her disappointment in the verdict makes Scout question the idea of justice. "Who in this town did one thing to help Tom Robinson, just who?" (215) Scout and Jem had believe…

…the kind of music that was filling the radio waves and making people dance. Tijuana, 1955 the drastic change of moving from the small, quiet town of Autlan to the humming, thriving boom town of Tijuana brought a renewed hope and opportunity for a new life…