American Literature / Unit 11 AML 1022 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The Country of the Pointed Firs*
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The idea
Jewett's linked sketches follow a summer visitor boarding in a Maine fishing village, listening to her landlady and the village's remaining old people. Almost nothing happens, which is the form's claim: a place and its talk are enough to build a book on.
In practice
A summer of listening, made into a book.
Where people slip
Plotlessness is the design, not a failing.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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