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    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitch-Hiker"
    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitch-Hiker"
    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitch-Hiker"
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    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitch-Hiker"

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    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitch-Hiker", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393579
    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitch-Hiker"

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      A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitch-Hiker" - Gale

      17

      The Hitch-Hiker

      Lucille Fletcher

      1941

      Introduction

      A product of the so-called Golden Age of Radio, Lucille Fletcher's radio play The Hitch-Hiker was aired by CBS on November 17, 1941, on the famed Orson Welles Show, a contemporary extension of the acclaimed Mercury Theatre on the Air program. Introduced by Welles himself, the presentation was set to a musical score and sound effects devised by Bernard Herrmann, Fletcher's husband and a famed composer in his own right. The radio play was well received by contemporary audiences and presented by Welles on numerous other occasions and for various networks and programs. The Hitch-Hiker is better remembered today not as a radio play but as a 1960 television episode of the Twilight Zone, adapted from Fletcher's play by famed producer and series creator Rod Sterling.

      Counted as one of the early classics of suspense and psychological horror, Fletcher's radio play continues to appeal to humanity's most primal fears decades after its initial air date. The Hitch-Hiker, and pioneering thrillers like it, helped shape an entire modern genre premised on ambiguity, the unhinged mind, and terror of the unknown.

      Author Biography

      A Native Of Brooklyn, New York, Violet Lucille Fletcher Was Born On March 28, 1912, To Working-Class Parents. She Excelled At Both Local Public And Technical Schools And Demonstrated An Early Aptitude And Love For The Expression Afforded By Words. As A High School Student, Fletcher Headed A Chapter Of The National Honors Society, Served As Editor Of A School-Run Literary Publication, And Distinguished Herself As A Finalist In A National Competition For Oratory Sponsored By The New York Times and judged by representatives of the US government. Fletcher continued to engage in contests of academic merit while pursuing a bachelor of arts in English at New York's Vassar College, from which she graduated with distinction in 1933.

      Upon her graduation from university, Fletcher engaged in freelance writing for several notable publications, including the New Yorker, and acquired a job within the musical department of major broadcasting corporation CBS. It was there that she made the acquaintance of accomplished composer and music arranger Bernard Herrmann,

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