Changing Fiction

      The Norton book has a small section dedicated to what happens when merely one word in a piece of literature is changed--it describes the drastic effects that change can have on the writing. We proved this in class the other day when we tweaked various words in "The Dust of Snow" by Robert Frost. Just by changing the word "crow" to "vulture" or "dove" really gave the poem an entire different meaning. It's interesting how such a little change can alter the overall affect of a piece of writing. It's actually a lot of fun to now read various things and change some of the words to see what kind of different results you get!