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Elizabeth Mccraken The Giant House
The short story I picked was “The Giant House”, written by Elizabeth McCraken. The theme of the story is the tall people looked twice as big as the ambassador from the normal-sized, as if they were an entirely different race. The books described weak stomachs and legs and bones. Sometimes what made them tall showed in their faces: each feature looked like something disturbed in an avalanche separate from the others, in danger of slipping off. The three elements of the story that I choose to write about is plot, setting, and climax. The plot of the Giant’s House is about James Carlson Sweatt, a young boy with an endocrine disorder that causes exceptional growth and in time will kill him. He is seen as the ideal patron, an

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