Graveyard Girl Setting

Wendy A. Lewis
This Study Guide consists of approximately 21 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Graveyard Girl.

Graveyard Girl Setting

Wendy A. Lewis
This Study Guide consists of approximately 21 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Graveyard Girl.
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In the main, the twelve stories of Graveyard Girl take place in the fictional town of Lee, which is based on Lewis's home community of Uxbridge, Ontario, a place of some 8,000 people. For the book launch of Graveyard Girl in Uxbridge, Lewis created a car rally which took participants to some of the places in Uxbridge which were fictionally recreated in the stories. A copy of that map can be found in the Lewis "Profile" on the CM: Canadian Review of Materials Web site: www.umanitoba.ca/cm/ As in many communities, the local high school in Graveyard Girl provides the principal social setting for its students, and, by and large, the social hierarchy created within its walls extends into the after-school settings. Since the stories in Graveyard Girl are essentially those about characters in which the players are confronted by a situation which provides them with an...

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