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Outwardly Vanilla Story The Sisters

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What makes the reader continue to read? I asked myself this question a number of times as I read what appears to be an outwardly vanilla story, The Sisters. This story begins with a death, something rather common place, though often used as a device to catalyze story arcs. However, what follows is not particularly out of the ordinary. The story follows a family as they talk about this deceased reverend, and we seem to get our perspective from the young boy who appears to be a protagonist of sorts, though he plays a rather passive role in the story. The boy listens to the adults talk about the deceased in their rambling and rather vapid way. However, hidden in this rather boring dialogue are hints of intrigue about the man who died. The characters
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