Literary Illuminator

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The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans calls "out there." Some seventy miles east of the Colorado boarder, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has a atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men,many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land flat, and the views are awesomely extensive, horses, herd of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples as visible long before a traveler reaches them.



This part of the book tells us that the book takes place in Holcomb, Kansas. The way that the character describes this place is from his or her point of view. As the character explains how he or she is seeing Kansas the reader is able to see from the characters point of view or as if they were there looking at this place.