A Christmas Memory Part 1

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inaugurate

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to make a formal beginning

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What does the detail 'we are not, on the whole, too much aware of them' suggest about Buddy's view of family?

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For Buddy, family does NOT necessarily guarantee love, only power and a shared house.

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A Christmas Memory is fiction.

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True

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Capote uses the present tense and adverbs such as 'today' to tell the story even though the narrator is looking back on events that happened 20 years ago.

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True

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What does the setting suggest about the people who live there?

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The people are country people, probably not wealthy.

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What is the significance of the present tense in storytelling?

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It creates immediacy and engages the reader as if events are happening now.

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Define 'setting' in literature.

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The time and place in which a story occurs.

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What is the main theme of 'A Christmas Memory'?

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The importance of memory and the bittersweet nature of childhood.

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What literary device is used when the narrator reflects on past events?

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Flashback.

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What does the character Buddy represent in the story?

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Innocence and the perspective of childhood.