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    Mundy’s Mill High School Department of Foreign Language Jonesboro‚ GA Instructor’s Name: Florencia I. Anderson Class Name: Spanish II Room No. 115 E-mail: fanderson@clayton.k12.ga.us Textbook: Glencoe – En Español Replacement cost: $ 55 Period: _________________ Time: _____________ * Facebook: lamaestraespañol Course Description: Spanish is a college preparatory course designed to teach students to communicate in Spanish. Emphasis

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    “The Devil and Tom Walker‚” author Washington Irving emphasizes the moral consequences of indulgence in pecuniary materialism by revealing the detrimental effects of Tom Walker’s avarice. Evidence: In the end of the story‚ Tom Walker is taken by the Devil on horseback and never returns to foreclose the mortgage. The truth of his death is unknown‚ but witnesses from the town mentioned that the forest in which the horse had galloped into was set ablaze by a lightning bolt (8). Analysis: Tom Walker’s

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    “Let that skull alone” this quote from “ The Devil And Tom Walker” by Washington Irving is unique because it is showing how this short story has a significant amount of gothic literature in it. The four elements of gothic literature are Set in bleak or remote places‚ Plot involves violent incidents‚ Characters are in physical and/or psychological torment and lastly A supernatural or otherworldly presence is often present. “The Devil and Tom Walker” can definitively be classified as Gothic literature

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    The Devil and Tom Walker Near a swamp in 1727‚ Tom Walker and his wife live there miserly lives. They are so greedy that they try to cheat each other and they are constantly fighting. One day Tom makes a shortcut through the swamp and finds an Indian skull with a tomahawk in it. Tom kicks the skull and hears a voice. He looks up to see it’s a black man sitting on a stump. Tom recognizes him as the Devil. The Devil talks about Kidd’s buried pirates treasure and confirms it is real and offers it

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    Name Class Period Date Devil and Tom Walker (Modern Revision) Tom Walker sat at his bedside feeling rather melancholy for he had not much to do but be chided at by his notorious witch of a wife. They both lived in their humble abode of an apartment in the middle of a city but they had a sublime view that overlooked the scenery of the domicile’s dumpsters. They lived poorly‚ just barely getting by to afford a couple gallons of gas. Tom grew a hatred for almost everyone around and had only

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    Shelby Alexander Mrs. Mayes English III (H) September 4‚ 2012 The Trees in “The Devil and Tom Walker” There are these trees that are dark‚ tall and gloomy and have names on them. The names on the trees are of the Great Men of the Colony. The names are on the trees because the men sold their souls to the Devil. In the story‚ “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving there is this man that some people call “The Black Woodsmen” or “The Blackman” that runs this forest of souls that has

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    The Devil and Tom Walker A few miles from Boston‚ in Massachusetts‚ there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from Charles Bay‚ and terminating in a thickly wooded swamp‚ or morass. On one side of this inlet is a beautiful dark grove; on the opposite side the land rises abruptly from the water’s edge‚ into a high ridge on which grow a few scattered oaks of great age and immense size. Under one of these gigantic trees‚ according to old stories‚ there was a great

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    stories being created during this period‚ Summary: “The Devil and Tom Walker

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    In the “The Devil and Tom Walker‚” Irving illustrate human corruption through the use of the woods as setting and symbolism. Tom‚ Tom’s wife‚ and the Old Scratch also shown human abilities throughout the story. Each character was different in its own way‚ but shared one trait to express human abilities. Tom Walker is one of the first main characters. He was the protagonist of “The Devil and Tom Walker”. Tom Walker was described as a meager miserly fellow. He was the most despised of all characters

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    widely common in literature will be shown here. In the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker‚” written by Washington Irving‚ the characteristic of Romanticism that is prominent throughout the story is symbolism. “He thought with regret on the bargain he had made with his black friend (Devil)‚ and set his wits to work to cheat him out of the conditions. He became‚ therefore‚ all of a sudden‚ a violent churchgoer.” (358) Tom Walker didn’t want to spend his time as a usurer for the rest of his life‚ so

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