Vanishing Hitchhiker
According to Jan Harold Brunvard’s glossary in The Vanishing Hitchhiker, legends are “folk narratives that deal with the realistic incidents set in the past.” Brunvard gives the reader an analysis of each of the most well known urban legends. These stories are told in order to frighten, shock, or amuse the audience. Urban Legends are also passed down orally or communicated through written documents, such as E-mail, fax, or through books like The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Many people believe that all urban legends are false, but in fact some of them are true. Sometimes people twist these legends around in order to shock or interest the audience more, but the morals of the legends usually remain the same (all urban legends include morals). The story I have chosen to discuss from The Vanishing Hitchhiker is The Runaway Grandmother. This urban legend is about a family who goes on vacation across the Mexican border by car. After they cross the border, the child in the backseat notices that the grandmother is not moving, so the family realizes that she has died. With this, the
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Approximate Word count = 727
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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