She returned to her 12th birthday bcuz she thinks it was unimportant. While she was reliving this she realized that all humans are blind. She realized that she took life for granted and did not appreciate the little things. She did not appreciate what she had until she had lost it. In the beginning the other dead people had warned her not to return to the land of the living but she still did it. When she returned she told them "I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are. Just blind people. Thornton wilder is trying to get the readers to appreciate the small things because later on they become things you regret that you did not appreciate.
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The title of the story includes the word fall which foreshadows the ending of the Usher family line. The decreped state of the house described in the begining foreshadows the dissolution of the Usher family.
The use of the word abruptly heightens the conflict by revealing to the reader that Mrs. Hale is becoming increasingly anxious
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But, A rising action is usually when the story would start to get tense an example from "Of mice and men" When Curley's wife was getting choked by Lennie, It was like a rising action, As it was tense and could leave you on the edge of your seat
