In School Days
John Greenleaf Whittier
Theme: "Love is everlasting."
Text Evidence: "Still memory to the gray-haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl! The grasses on her grave. Have been forty years growing!
Summary: This poem is a memory this man had of a little girl who beat him at a spelling bee. Soon after the spelling bee ended she confessed her love for him.
Characters: The boy, girl, and the grey-haired man.
Setting: The school yard and grave site.
Characters: The boy, girl, and the grey-haired man.
Setting: The school yard and grave site.
Conflict: Character v.s. character. The girl beating the boy.
Figurative Language: Metaphors were used to describe the girls and boy actions and reactions.
Point of View: Third person.
Text Evidence: "He lives to learn, in life's hard school.
Text Evidence: "He lives to learn, in life's hard school.
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