Accounts Settled: A Review
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In the book, Accounts Settled, there is only one major character named
Gordon. Gordon is seventeen, six feet tall, and has the beginning of a beard.
The main setting is in a forest-filled valley that is a mile from Gordon's home.
The story does not give a specific date but the most logical time th ....
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.... ready to
pounce on him. The cougar dose not strike yet because it is waiting for Gordon
to move. Gordon knows better and stayed in the same position for what seemed
like hours. Suddenly, the porcupine returns to look for more food and this
disrupts the cougar. The climax is when Gordon quickly reaches for his gun and
shoots the cougar. The resolution is when Gordon "cries the final tears of his
boyhood" and he is finally a man.
This writer used suspense in his story many times. F ....
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