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Rip Van Winkle
The reader of “Rip Van Winkle” will see the theme of change by how the village aged drastically over time. According to the second paragraph in the short story “Rip Van Winkle”, the author states ,“...there were some of the houses of the original settlers standing within a few years…”. This sentence shows how it is clear that the town is growing older with time because they were the original settlers’ houses. The short story describes the aged village with such detail on the houses. The reader should be able to tell that the village is very old itself.
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