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Brief Summary Of Assassination Vacation By Sarah Vowell

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In the novel Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell it describes the main characters fondness for history. Although the main character, Sarah, loves history in general, she mainly has a passion for well known historical assassinations. She is on a trip looking at famous landmarks,. For example, Ford's Theatre, when Sarah is their she watches a play about the death of Lincoln. "The thing that makes seeing this play in Ford's Theatre more meaningful than anywhere else is that I can look from the stage to Lincoln's box and back again..."(23). Sarah also visits the Lincoln Memorial. "I used to march down memorial's steps mourning the loss of the second term Lincoln would never serve" (27). Sarah is upset about the thought Lincoln did not receive

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