1# In the second paragraph, children put stones in their pockets and make piles of stones in the town square, which seems like children playing around until the stones’ true purpose becomes clear at the end of the story.
2# Irony is the basic theme used in the story. Outside was expressed as "a sunny day", but eventually the housewife came across a horrible death (page 715). Two people running the town, Graves and Summers have ironic names.
#3 The lesson learned is there is a danger of going along with tradition
Main idea is about Gender and Racial issues
Pretty sure answer is, “Though they lived during the same time period, Dickinson wrote compact poems about ordinary events, while Whitman wrote longer poems about public life and well-known events”
Answer: the answer is the 2nd and last one
Explanation: this is correct i just finished the test edumention school thing