"A Mother in Mannville" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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The author examines the story "A Mother in Mannville," by looking at the different settings, characters, similies and metaphors, as well as the different types of imagery that the author Majorie Kinnan Rawlings used in her short story.

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"The setting of the story is very calm and peaceful, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings uses beautiful similes or metaphors to enhance it. First of all, she describes the color of the laurel and the rhododendron in a way that symbolizes a warm home. Page 113: "The rhododendron was in bloom, a carpet of color, across the mountainsides, soft as the May winds that stirred the hemlocks." Second of all, the sounds going on in the story are very quiet; there are none that are sudden or unexpected. Page 114: "Then he began to chop, the blows were rhythmic and steady the sound no more of an interruption than a consistent rain." Third of all, it seems as though the orphanage and the author's home are cut off from the rest of the world. Page 112: "in winter the snowdrifts are so deep that the institution is cut off from the village below, from all the world." in brief, throughout the story everything remains serene and quiet and it reflects to some extent the events of the story;"

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