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    <title>The Invalid's Story Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Invalid's Story Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[whos the protagonist and antagonist in the Invalid's Story.
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        <link>http://www.enotes.com/invalids-story/q-and-a/whos-protagonist-antagonist-invalids-story-113789</link>
        <description><![CDATA[whos the protagonist and antagonist in the Invalid's Story.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:30:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the "Invalid's Story" where does the narrator exaggerate details?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/invalids-story/q-and-a/invalids-story-where-does-narrator-exaggerate-99197</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In the "Invalid's Story" where does the narrator exaggerate details?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 21:00:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is the purpose of the narrator's journey?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/invalids-story/q-and-a/what-purpose-narrators-journey-82239</link>
        <description><![CDATA[what is the purpose of the narrator's journey?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 5 May 2009 15:22:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are a number of cases of irony in the Invalid.  But to name two...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are a number of cases of irony in the Invalid.  But to name two that stand out to me, is 1: Limburger cheese is best if kept in the cold.  The men are lighting a fire and warming up the railway car not knowing that they are making it worse.  By the end of the story, the cheese is in the warm car and the men are out in the cold.  2:The narrator of the story is taking his final trip home to die, on a train.  The cause of his demise is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:54:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;The Invalid's Story&quot; was written by Mark Twain in the late...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/invalids-story/q-and-a/what-era-story-taken-place-42851</link>
        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The Invalid's Story&quot; was written by Mark Twain in the late 1800s or the nineteenth century.  It is estimated that Twain wrote the story sometime in the 1870s.  The story takes place in an era when people relied on trains for transportation and when people were afraid of being buried alive.  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:06:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In what era does the story take place?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In what era does the story take place?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:17:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The narrator of Twain's tale believes that the box he is transporting...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The narrator of Twain's tale believes that the box he is transporting contains the body of an old friend that he is excorting home.  What he does not know is the the box containing the body was accidentally switched with a box of guns being shipped.  Also, a hobo had jumped into the boxcar and set a bag that contained Limburger cheese on top of the box and then left.  The cheese smells horrible, and both the narrator and the conductor...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:23:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the irony of &quot;The Invalid's Story&quot;?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/invalids-story/q-and-a/what-irony-invalid-s-story-29629</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the irony of &quot;The Invalid's Story&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:21:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The narrator of &quot;The Invalid's Story&quot; and Thompson believe...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The narrator of &quot;The Invalid's Story&quot; and Thompson believe that there is a dead body in the box on the train.  It is actually a box of guns, but since it is a long box, it does look like a coffin.  The narrator is supposed to be escorting the body of a dead friend home for burial, but the boxes were accidentally switched at the train station.  Before the train left, a man had climbed into the train car, unbeknownst to the narrator...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:01:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the difference between what the narrator and Thompson believe to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the difference between what the narrator and Thompson believe to be true and what is really true in &quot;The Invalid's Story&quot;.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:16:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Twain uses dramatic irony to create humor in his story.  The  reader...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/invalids-story/q-and-a/mark-twains-invalids-story-how-does-language-16717</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Twain uses dramatic irony to create humor in his story.  The  reader knows that a bag of cheese was left on the box, but the two men in the train car do not.  Their confusion about the smell is humorous because they attribute the smell to a rotting body while the reader is aware that it is the Limburger cheese that smells so bad.  The men in the car go to outrageous lengths to try to cover up the smell, even to the point of smoking...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:42:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Mark Twain's &quot;The Invalid's Story&quot;, how does the language...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Mark Twain's &quot;The Invalid's Story&quot;, how does the language of the story contribute to the humor?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:07:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a humorous story that deals with both mortality and human...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/invalids-story/q-and-a/what-plot-fo-invalid-s-story-13777</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This is a humorous story that deals with both mortality and human ingenuity - and how that ingenuity can get in the way.  Twain was known for his belief that the human brain could be a dangerous object.  In this story, the narrator and the expressman, Thompson, are intelligent enough to connect the smell of the cheese to the smell of the rotting corpse.  Of course, that connection is inaccurate.  They are intelligent enough to come up with...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:34:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the plot fo &quot;The Invalid's Story&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the plot fo &quot;The Invalid's Story&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:10:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Twain is telling a story about three different things:  1) the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/invalids-story/q-and-a/what-main-message-meaning-whole-story-7263</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Twain is telling a story about three different things:  1) the inevitability of death (all humans will die),  2) the fear of the average human regarding his own death,  and 3) the power of the imagination in overcoming human reason.  Mostly, Twain is trying to demonstrate how silly the human fear of death is, so silly and so strong that it will convince a rational man that some rotting cheese is really a dead body, and send him running. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:05:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the main message/meaning of The Invaild's Story?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/invalids-story/q-and-a/what-main-message-meaning-whole-story-7263</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the main message/meaning of The Invaild's Story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:54:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are many conflicts, and many types of conflict, in this story (if...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/invalids-story/q-and-a/what-conflicts-story-948</link>
        <description><![CDATA[There are many conflicts, and many types of conflict, in this story (if you define "conflict" as any sort of clash or disagreement). The first is between the stories told—how old is the narrator?
The second is a restatement of what the box being transported contains.  
The third is a conflict between the smell and comfort, and the fourth is confusion over the source of that smell (cheese or dead body).

Cigar smoke vs. cheese smell.

All...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 3 Mar 2007 18:14:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the conflicts in the story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the conflicts in the story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:49:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Some style points in the story are:

Humor: the story is amusing and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Some style points in the story are:

Humor: the story is amusing and written in a subtle but funny way

Personification: The men refer to two inanimate objects—the gunbox and the cheese—as if they exhibit human qualities, a technique called personification

Foreshadowing: The story uses the foreshadowing technique, for example, when he is telling his story, Twain's narrator gives away both causes of the conflict, the guns and the cheese]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:56:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the style of The Invalid's Story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the style of The Invalid's Story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:20:28 PST</pubDate>
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