Devil and Tom Walker
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| show | A scholar makes a deal with the devil for unlimited knowledge.
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| show | Making fun of something in order to encourage it or shame it into improving.
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| show | 1727 near Boston
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| show | The inlet lets boats come in secretly at night to the base of the hill; the elevation makes the hill a good lookout; the gigantic trees make the place easy to find.
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| Which legendary person buried treasure in this inlet, according to Washington Irving? What happened to him after he buried the treasure? | show 🗑
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| show | They are both miserly
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| When describing the place Tom Walker and his wife live, Irving emphasizes its sense of emptiness and hunger. Write down at least three examples of phrases he uses to add to this sense of emptiness. | show 🗑
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| Why do people have a bad opinion of the old fort that Tom Walker stops at? | show 🗑
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| List four ways in which the old man sitting on the tree stump is described. | show 🗑
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| In what ways are Deacon Peabody and the tree that has his name similar? | show 🗑
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| show | The wild huntsman, the black miner, the black woodsman, great patron and prompter of slave dealers, the grand master of the Salem witches, and Old Scratch
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| Who is the stranger really? | show 🗑
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| What are two events that convince Tom Walker that the stranger is who he says he is? | show 🗑
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| show | She is never heard from again. No one knows her real fate, but there are many stories told about it.
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| show | He's worried about losing his valuables
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| show | Her heart and liver
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| Tom Walker and the stranger finally do business with one another. What do you think the "one condition that need not be mentioned" is? | show 🗑
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| What does Tom Walker refuse to become? | show 🗑
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| show | He lends money to those who need it, but at very high rates; he exacts "good pay and good security." No, he isn't really a friend at all. He "squeezed his customers ... dry."
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| How and why does Tom attempt to cheat the devil? | show 🗑
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| What does Tom Walker say that brings the devil upon him? | show 🗑
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| How do the "good people of Boston" respond to what happened Tom Walker"? | show 🗑
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| show | Either ill-gotten is meaningless, or the point that all wealth and gain are meaningless after you are dead.
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| A satire is a story that makes fun of something about human nature. "The Devil and Tom Walker" is a satire, but what parts of human nature is Washington Irving making fun of? Thank of at least four things. | show 🗑
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