The Town, 113 (Event)

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2018-03-16 13:41
Text: 
The Town
Location: 
Jefferson Oil Company Tanks in The Town (Location)
Page Number: 
113
Order within Page: 
2
First 8-10 words of event: 
So at least there was some fresh Snopes news to send
Page Event Ends: 
116
Era: 
World War I(1914-1919)
Characters Present: 
Mr. Harker
Cedric Nunnery
Mrs. Nunnery
V.K. Ratliff
Eck Snopes
Characters Mentioned: 
Manfred de Spain
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Wednesday, August 1, 1917 to Monday, December 31, 1917
Summary: 

Eck Snopes is killed in a gasoline explosion while looking for a missing child. Believing the explosion is a German attack, Jefferson's Home Guard rings the alarm bell. (Historically, the ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine on 7 May 1915.)

Chronological Order: 
116.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
War: World War I: Homefront Writing: Letter Italics Violence: Explosion Sound: Alarm bell Absence Searching
Environment:
Auditory›Bells | Time of Day›Dusk
Actions:
Physical›Searching | Violent›Explosion | Work›Night watchman
Cultural Issues:
War›Homefront
Themes and Motifs:
Absence/Loss›Missing
Relationships:
Familial›Mother-son
Aesthetics:
Allusion, Historical›Lusitania | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Figures of Speech›Simile

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