Explain the use of the allusions and the insight the reader gains from the author's use of the allusions. Please do any that you can. Thank you!...

An allusion is a brief reference to a specific person, place, thing, event or idea in a story, meant to imply a shared experience between the writer and reader. The result of a successful allusion can give added insight into the character or event that it refers to. In the examples above, the battle of Hastings (England) was an important Norman victory in 1066; the allusion infers that the family was not a terribly old or important one since its history could not be traced before this time. Appomattox refers to the location of the Confederate surrender that marked the end of the Civil War, still an unhappy event to many Southerners of the era. Like Appomattox, the snow was bad, and only bad children could have been responsible for this mistimed event. The Rosetta Stone was an ancient Egyptian tablet that included some of the earliest recorded language. The implication is that it was an age old doctrine that the seasons would change when children behaved badly.