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Accounts Settled: A Review - Term Papers

Accounts Settled: A Review

In the book, Accounts Settled, there is only one major character
named Gordon. Gordon is seventeen, six feet tall, and has the beginning of
a beard. The main setting is in a forest-filled valley that is a mile from
Gordon's home. The story does not give a specific date but the most
logical time this story takes place is in the winter during the early 1900s.

The inciting incident in the story is when Gordon's dad came down
with flu-pneumonia and Gordon must take his place in taking care of the
trapline that he had set up in the forest. The conflict of the story is
internal and external because Gordon had to face himself and nature. The
rising action started when Gordon had a ...

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look for more food and this disrupts the
cougar. The climax is when Gordon quickly reaches for his gun and shoots
the cougar. The resolution is when Gordon "cries the final tears of his
boyhood" and he is finally a man.
This writer used suspense in his story many times. For instance,
"his eyes held the boy unwinkingly as he waited in the fiendish way of cats
for the moment when the man must stir, or make an attempt to escape, the
moment when his ingrained fear of man would be swallowed up by the rising
tide of his blood-lust" and "moments passed, horrible heart-thudding
moments, during which neither man nor animal stirred". Another method that
the writer uses is foreshadowing. For instance, "he wouldn't have minded
tending the old line along the lake shore, but this haunted place-" and
"Gordon had let it go at that, but he knew by the occasional fuzz of nerves
along his back that the secret shadowing still went on, and that it was
more than an inquisitive ...

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Added: 4/13/2007 05:34:05 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 419
Pages: 2

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