Nothing Ever Happens

Nothing Ever Happens

Dorthy Canfield Fisher

Theme: "Actions speak louder than words."

Text Evidence: "-almost as if one action could make a natural channel along which other actions like it could flow more easily."

Summary: Mrs. Hunter lives near the top of a mountain in Vermont. She stays out of public afraid of humiliation because of her being half Indian. When Great-Grandmother hears this she's determined to make a new friend and invites her to church. Mrs.Hunter shows up Sunday with her best clothes but with an apron over them. To help her not be humiliated Great-grandmother quickly takes her daughter and grand daughter and puts aprons over there clothes to.

Characters: Great-Grandmother, Grandmother, Aunt, Mr. Hunter, and Mrs. Hunter.

Setting: The green mountains of Vermont.

Conflict: Person v.s. society.

Significant Literary Devices: Amplification

Point of View: Third person.

Text Evidence: "My aunt who was Great-Grandmother's granddaughter, and who was the little girl on the front porch that day, used to tell me, when I was a little girl, about what happened next.