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   The train station is the thing that first comes to my mind. The two main characters are on a journey (both literal and metaphoric). There's also the landscape and the references in the text to the fertility and infertility of the soil. The young woman, Jig, doesn't speak Spanish, which may help to show that she's apparently in a more vulnerable, less empowered position than the male character. Those three items show a connection between the setting and the meaning of the story. I'm betting that other posters will have more to say.

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   Posted by jk180 on Friday November 6, 2009 at 5:14 PM