Genre
Short stories
Setting and Context
Multiple settings written in the context of heroism
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Frightening, horrifying, disheartening
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character in Moon Lake is Easter, while the central character in The Hitch-Hikers is Tom Harris.
Major Conflict
The major conflict is in 'A Visit of Charity,' in which a young girl visits a nursing home to earn charity points but ends up leaving screaming after a frightening encounter with old women in the nursing facility.
Climax
The climax is in 'The Hitch-Hikers', in which the salesman is unbothered by the violence between two hitchhikers.
Foreshadowing
The central symbol of experience in 'Moon Lake' is foreshadowed by the courage of a male lifeguard who saves young girls on the verge of downing.
Understatement
The ambitiousness of the civil rights activists in the story 'The Demonstrators' is understated. The demonstrators have the unwavering spirit of protesting against the killings of black men.
Allusions
The story 'Livvie' alludes to the challenges of early marriages in which young girls marry older men.
Imagery
Civil war imagery is dominant in the story 'The Burning', which depicts sight to readers to see why the union soldiers were burning old plantations.
Paradox
The main paradox is in 'A Piece of News', which introduces Ruby as an illiterate person. Ironically, despite being illiterate, Ruby reads words in a newspaper and understands its content.
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The social firestorm in the story 'The Petrified Man' is a metonymy for unintentional confrontation.
Personification
N/A
