SOAPSTone Analysis: Directions: Insert quotations at the asterisks (*)from the story and Tom Walker” (p228-38) “Devil to illustrate the aspect of Soapstone. Speaker: person narrator Walker never returned to foreclose the mortgage” (238) “Tom Washington Irving with strict moral values” (228 ). “raised Lost his fiancée to tuberculosis Occasion: Early 1800’s New country New political institutions Built on religious foundations Audience: Very religious Purpose: To satirize (poking fun at people, institutions, government, etc.) *Marriage *Religious people *Banks Purpose: To indicate power of darkness Tom reached home he found the black print of a finger burned, into his forehead, which nothing “When could obliterate” (233) * Subject: * TONE: warning, in spite of all this strenuous attention to religious forms, Tom had a lurking dread that the devil, after all would have his due” (237) * (see definition above) Satire What is the overall theme of this short story?
SOAPSTone Analysis: Directions: Insert quotations at the asterisks (*)from the story “Devil and Tom Walker” (p228-38) to illustrate the aspect of Soapstone. Speaker: person narrator “Tom Walker never returned to foreclose the mortgage” (238) Washington Irving “raised with strict moral values” (228 ). Lost his fiancée to tuberculosis Occasion: Early 1800’s New country New political institutions Built on religious foundations Audience: Very religious Purpose: To satirize (poking fun at people, institutions, government, etc.) *Marriage *Religious people *Banks Purpose: To indicate power of darkness “When Tom reached home he found the black print of a finger burned, into his forehead, which nothing could obliterate” (233) * Subject: * TONE: warning, in spite of all this strenuous attention to religious forms, Tom had a lurking dread that the devil, after all would have his due” (237) * Satire (see definition above) What is the overall theme of this short story?
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