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    Tale of the Vanishing Hitchhiker The legend of the Vanishing Hitchhiker has been evolving over many years as every town has a slightly different tale to tell, but the gist of these tales have remained the same.“A man picks up a young woman hitchhiking and when he turns to bid his unusual hitchhiker goodbye he discovers that she has mysteriously disappeared from the car. He later learns that his mysterious passenger had died several years earlier”(“The Vanishing Hitchhiker”). Even though some believe

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    The Hitchhiker

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    To begin with, the exposition is a crucial part in developing any plot. In The Hitchhiker the exposition plays a big role in developing suspense. For example, “If I tell it, perhaps it will help me from going mad. But I must tell this quickly. I am not mad now” (1001). In this quote it helps the reader to feel the mood of the story. The “If I tell it, perhaps it will help me from going mad” (1001) helps develop curiosity in the reader and the starting suspense for the whole story. Rising action is

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    The Hitchhiker Symbolism

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    protagonist in Lucille Fletcher “The Hitchhiker” has a hard time accepting death. Death follows him around and he doesn't understand why this Hitchhiker is following him wherever he goes. In “The Hitchhiker” Lucille Fletcher uses symbolism, flashback, and foreshadowing to show how Rodger won’t accept his own death. In the first place, Fletcher uses symbolism in the story to link the hitchhiker as death. “Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge that

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    Lucille Fletcher’s short story “The Hitchhiker” relates to that conflict. In real life when you’re on a long road trip you use your signs to lead you to your destination; also when you pick your friends ,they can lead you down different paths. In “The Hitchhiker” Adams has a hard time accepting death. Death follows him around and he doesn't understand why this hitchhiker is following him wherever he goes. In “The Hitchhiker” Lucille Fletcher uses the hitchhiker to symbolize,foreshadowing ,and flashback

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    Jack The Hitchhiker

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    all may have encountered what the Journal of Student Centered Learning calls “hitchhikers” and “couch potatoes”, in other words those who create difficulties. The article maintains a relatable story where the author sets up an experience between yourself, and fictional characters Mary, Henry, and Jack. Focusing on Jack, the hitchhiker, the author allows us to relive every unpleasant teammate encounter. Jack, the hitchhiker, does a number of things, including not participating in meetings, turns in

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    texts The Hitchhiker and Closed for the Season effectively created suspense through the use of dramatic elements. The two stories, The Hitchhiker and Closed for the Season create suspense through the setting. Imagery also creates suspense in the two stories. The two texts use dialogue to create suspense. Therefore these texts create suspense because they use setting, imagery, and dialogue The two stories The Hitchhiker and Closed for the Season create suspense through the setting. The hitchhiker states

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    actually real. People with this illness, “May see or hear things that don't exist, speak in strange or confusing ways, believe that others are trying to harm them, or feel like they are being constantly watched” (“Schizophrenia” 1). In the story, “The Hitchhiker” a boy named Jacob is facing many of these symptoms. Jacob seems to have the abnormal behavior that is triggered by schizophrenia, causing him to do acts of violence, and have hallucinations.

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    “The Hitchhiker” Most people in the world have had a hard time admitting that someone has died that they care about. In the world this happens a lot because it is a hard thing to excepted. Lucille Fletcher, the author of “The Hitchhiker” shows the fear of death through the eyes of the main character that can not escape that he is dead. He is being followed by a Hitchhiker that is representing death because the main character is dead which goes back to not admitting that someone is dead. In the story

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    The play “The Hitchhiker” by Lucille Fletcher describes the journey of a man named Ronald Adams traveling to California. When he sets out on his drive, he sees a hitchhiker on Brooklyn Bridge leaning against the cables. Throughout his trip, he sees this same hitchhiker many times. The author uses tone in the story to create a feeling of horror and makes the character appear paranoid, frightened, and frantic. Within the text the author makes the character appear paranoid through his tone when he

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    ------Strange noises, eerie strangers, and phantasms are things that often pull an audience into a suspenseful story. On Lucille Fletcher’s The Hitchhiker a man is riding from his home in Brooklyn to the west coast. Along the way he continues to see a man who makes him nervous. Eventually, this vision makes him questions his sanity. This play works because of the plot decisions that the author has made. Fletcher uses three elements of plot that goes from exposition/rising action to climate and

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