James Baldwin's The Boy And The Wolf

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James Baldwin, the author, makes the short story, “The Boy and the Wolf” enthralling. The author, James Baldwin, uses the setting, characters, and events to make the story "The Boy and the Wolf exciting. To begin with, James Baldwin uses the setting of this short story to stir up excitement by vividly describing where this short story occurs. The author describes the setting of the story by “drawing a picture” in the reader’s mind of what a place looks like through a character’s eyes. One way the author, James Baldwin, does this is “He could see a green open space just beyond; and then the woods seemed to be thicker and darker.” This expository phrase explains how Gilbert saw this place in the forest when he tries to find the wolf. Following,

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