... things that will happen in the story. Unlike in the Vendetta where we picture the story's setting through the author's use of vivid descriptions, in the School Teacher's Guest how the story is set is revealed in the plot. "The very evening on which Riad Halabi had driven into Agua Santa from one side of town, from the other a group of boys had carried in the body of the schoolteacher's son." It is in this description that we know that the setting for this story takes place in the small town of Agua Santa. Both writers also give descriptions on what the place is like and how community life is. In "The Schoolteacher's Guest", it is revealed through descriptions of the schoolteacher's past, that she holds the power in that town. Every facet of town life was under her control-she had power over the church, ...

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