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From the very beginning, the text indicates its historical context by stating things such as, “In 1820, only a few miles away from what is not the great city of Cincinnati.” This indicates that this took place many years ago in an indefinite area of that time. One of the biggest things that wouldn’t fit in a different time period is the region in which people are “sparsely” spread about. Now a day you really wouldn’t see that as much. Back then though it was pretty common.The story had a lot of different elements to it, in which it could have portrayed many different themes. But I think that a lot of the message, and beliefs of the author that was being illustrated was that the burial of the dead does not need to me wept about. Death is ultimately inevitable. …show more content…
The Boarded Windows is written by a female author by the name of Ambrose Bierce, and I believe that the narrator, or the person telling the story is a male. The author in the text descried the women as willing spirited, and light

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