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Summary Of The Fall Of A City By Alden Nowlan

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In Alden Nowlan’s short story “The Fall of a City”, Teddy, a young boy living in his uncles home, is experiencing an unbelievably negative environment that he feels as he must create his own world. Teddy uses the imaginary city in the attic as an escape from the world below. Firstly, Teddy “[spends] most of his afternoon in the attic...he just about lives up there” (P.43) blocking off the negative aspects of his life. Teddy is so vigorously impacted by the negative energy that he rather be “squatting in the attic” (P.41) than spending time with his family. Additionally, Teddy is in constant fear of his uncle and regularly reminded that he is restrained by an authority figure. He uses the paper dolls to express the creativity and escape the

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