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Both "Vendetta" and "The Schoolteacher's Guest" deal with ideas of justice and revenge. How do you think the writers show the personal and cultural forces that lead to the characters taking their revenge? In your response you should refer closely to the texts. Both stories show a strong bond between the mother and son. The Schoolteacher's Guest uses more dialogue and narrative to give the reader more of an understanding of what is going on whilst Vendetta starts with the description of the setting which tells the reader that this may be a bit of a harsh story. For example, "the barren, stripped of all but a scanty covering of grass, are forever harassed by a restless wind". They all give off a very negative energy. You are fully aware of what has happened near in the first two paragraphs. For example, in Vendetta, "One evening, Antoine Saverini was treacherously stabbed...

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