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Write an essay that answers the question, “What was haunting America in the nineteenth century?” Develop your thesis with details and quotes from the stories "Rip Van Winkle," "Young Goodman Brown," and "The Black Cat". These details can include information about the theme, plot, and characters, and also information about life in nineteenth-century America where appropriate.

intonation based on rhythm.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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