Two Stories
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What must be first understood about the character pattern in both of the stories is that they deal with different aspects of human behavior in the same fundamental context, namely, the nonurban and lower-socioeconomic class of central Washington state; these are not yuppies likely to patronize Starbucks in Seattle. The principal focus of action is the male characters, with the exception of Toby and Caroline in This Boy's Life, who arrive in the improbably--but both accurately and symbolically, as it turns out--named town of Concrete, Washington, to make a new start in life and to become part of that community. In both "Hunters in the Snow" and This Boy's Life, however, the general line of action shows that the environment in which the characters operate is not only socially and morally impoverished but also continually vulnerable to the manifestation of violence and brutality. It is as if the best that one can say about them is that for the most part they lack access to moral sense.In This Boy's Life, the brutality and violence of Dwight is manifest from almost the beginning. Caroline, partly as a feature of her determination to at long last make a success of her life with her son and partly in consequence of her readiness to embrace new experience, seems oblivious of the clues to Dwight's true nature. The fact that determination, verging on desperation, predominates in her character surfaces in the wake of Dwight's sexual brutality to her on their wedding night demonstrate
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Approximate Word count = 1150
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)
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