Meridian Summary

Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel , Fever 1793, takes place in Philadelphia. Mattie goes throughout the city wondering where everyone is after yellow fever has spread. Then she finds a little girl that will help her with walking around and trying to stay calm. By using emotions and character development, Anderson creates the lesson that when you have someone special in your life, you should never take them for granted.

When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.

Desmond enters the animus to find himself reliving the life of Haytham Kenway. Son of Assassin Edward Kenway (pirate on the Caribean who is introduced in the next installment of the series), Haytham discovers the amulet used to unlock the door within this cave is in the hands of an assassin named Miko. Miko joined the assassins because of Edward, and had risen to the highest rank within the creed of mentor. Sneaking into an opera performance Miko is at, Haytham assassinates Miko and steals the amulet. Barley escaping with his life, Haytham boards the next ship over to the colonies to establish Templar order and to gain access to the power of Eden.

By creating a background for the town, Capote captivates the readers- with careful examination a parallel can be drawn between the physical deterioration of the town and the moral deterioration of murders Dick and Perry.The rarity of such descript imagery in nonfiction begs the question of author purpose: Capote could have merely adorned his descriptions for the creation of the metaphor, a distinct attribute of a fiction novelist. Moreover, Capote intensifies and dramatizes the setting by “[a]ltering numerical counts, for example, changing the number of churches in Garden City from twenty-two to twenty-eight”, thus further cultivating the religious atmosphere of Holcomb, connecting the readers to the text and attesting to the Christian zeal of the townspeople (De Bellis 522). Capote’s descriptive elaboration appears copiously throughout the entire novel; in the final line, Capote chillingly describes Dewey’s departure from Nancy’s grave, “he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bent wheat”, creating a lasting memory with his use of melodramatic alliteration: a successful accomplishment for any piece of fiction literature (Capote 343).

First, the book starts out sometime in 1821, on the Brodas Plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland where Harriet was born. Ben Ross and Harriet Greene (Old Rit), who were both well respected by the plantation owner and the other slaves, had just had another child. It was a girl. They named her Araminta, which would later

Our Town takes place in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire around the turn of the century. (1900’s). This play uses a lot of flashbacks. There’s one with George and Emily when they first fall in love at Mr. Morgan’s shop. It also uses foreshadowing. When they told of how everyone died. Another flashback is when Joe comes back after about ten years and they talk about the dead and everyone’s lives.

The film, The Truman Show (1998) is about the man named Truman Burbank, a first child who is legally adopted legally by the broadcasting company and been unknowingly publicizing his entire life as an entertaining show to the whole world. Although he lives in the world where everything is manipulated, at least for him, he is just like a normal man with own family, friends, and job. The difference between others and Truman lies on the taboo that Truman has attained through the traumatic event of losing his own father. His taboo is that he is incapable of living the city, Seahaven as leaving the city signifies knowing the truth of his life. The film majorly depicts the moment when Truman realized skepticism around his entire life and departs the journey to find the truth and real identity

The Truman Show is centred on a man-made island called SeaHaven where a man named Truman Burbank has been televised without his knowledge since birth. The show is a 24 hour live tv show where every aspect of Truman’s life is shown. As Truman grows older he begins to notice unsual events that leads him to believe that there is something incongruent with what people are telling him and what he experiences in his day to day life. As Truman begins to test the boundaries he realizes that the town seems to revolve around him and his desire to escape comes to an all time high. Eventually Truman begins on a journey to escape his virtual reality. Despite the boundaries that the director throws at him he eventually escapes and will try to find his way in the real world. This movie made me sympathize for Truman being that he has no privacy and is oblivious to his lack of freedom. This movie shows how it is possible to create an “ideal” community and how New Urbanism can be created and maintained.

In the opening of this film we are introduced to our hero, Truman Burbank, a seemingly normal man living in the small peaceful town of Seahaven. Little does Truman know, his town is not only filled with kind people but also thousands of hidden cameras that film his every move each day. Although Truman does embark on the hero’s journey, his journey differs in some ways. While in college, Truman meets two women: Meryl, a temptress, and Lauren, a goddess. One evening on a beach, Lauren attempts to reveal the truth to Truman, Unfortunately, she is not successful and is forced to leave to show and discontinue her contact with him. One

Truman Burbank has been living a life of lies. Ever since he was born, every surrounding he sees is an illusion set up for the audience to watch. The people he interacts with, primarily his friends and families, are just actors used to represents Truman's life. Constantly, in order to prevent him from leaving Seahaven from discovering the truth, they made him hydrophobic. Primarily, because they do not have a big enough set for him to leave. Unexpected results begin to make Truman paranoid. Starting with, seeing a set behind an elevator, the car radio mentioning his every move, and even his own wife advertising to the audience which all Truman is unaware of. In order for Truman to escape this fake reality and live up to his full potential of becoming an explorer, he sets out to the ocean. From there, the director of the Truman show advises him to stay as it is safe and that he would get hurt in the real world. But not wanting live a life with a bunch of lies, Truman sets out to the unknown.

The primary locations in this novel is in Sweet Home, a small farm containing slaves in Kentucky, and 124 Bluestone Road on the edge of Cincinnati, Ohio. Although the novel starts out in the home of Sethe and her daughter, Denver, Sweet Home is where Sethe’s experiences to the past begins. In Sweet Home, the slave system was taken over by Mr. and Mrs. Garner, a kind couple who treated their slaves like human beings. 124 becomes personified through the paranormal activities in the house, and through the chapter names; 124 was spiteful, 124 was loud, and 124 was quiet. Mr. Bodwin, the owner of 124, tells how the house has a history of paranoia, "Women died there: his mother, grandmother, an aunt and an older sister before he was born" (259).

The Setting is an important part of any story, in the case of 'New Directions', it provides us with a peek into the background and knowledge of the writer and how this story may be close to her heart. 'New Directions' is set in a segregated Arkansas town in 1903; Angelou's home state, by this revelation one can conclude this story may be factually based. The Author also mentions several other locations; The One room house, Annies home and setting for the intro of the story. Two empty lots between a Cotton gin and a Saw Mill, where Annie first sets up shop and begins her venture, it eventually produces a stall equidistant between the two industries and finally a store. The author uses setting to symbolize life goals being reached, each place in the story larger than the last and closer to Annie's principal goal, being able to provide for herself and two toddler boys.

Many scholars note that the setting in Angelou's novel is necessary to understand the theme of displacement. The novel's main setting is Stamps, Arkansas. Stamps, Arkansas is a small southern town, with a great deal of racial segregation. One scholar notes that the novel takes place in the middle of strong segregation in the South (Henke). This setting is important to the novel because it explains why the different races were mistreated and displaced. McMurry points

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In the short story, the town of Jefferson, Mississippi shows sympathy towards Miss Emily Grierson for the loss of her father and her soon to be husband.