1. "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death." This is an introduction that will draw a reader in. This is a very sad situation but everyone wants to hear something about death (people we can't lie about this). It's always "Who died?" "How did it happen?" "What was the reason?" etc. It will draw attention to the reader and beofre you know it, you're reading the passage.
2. "veiled hints that revealed in half concealing." I chose this phrase because the way the sentence is worded is an eye catcher, because it is unusual. It makes you read it twice and it also describes the way the sad info was given and taken.
3. "pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul." This is another rhetoric type from Kate Chopin that, once again, catches the eye of the reader, simply because of its uniqueness. This personification was given also to give the reader the idea of how emotionally "weighted down" she was.
4. "She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will..." I chose this phrase because it has that vague suspense that Chopin uses so much in her writing. It's like you have an idea what may happen, but in all honesty you have no idea. She used this in Desiree's Baby when Desiree noticed weird behavior with her family and then compared the baby to the black boy.
5. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully." This is significant because it begins the climax of the story. Here is where you begin to wonder what is going and is where you get the first sense or thought (if you didn't know already) that she may be dying.
Questions I have:
1. What did Chopin mean by saying "And yet she had loved him--sometimes,"?
2. Was Brently Mallard her husband and if so, why was Brently Mallard considered dead?
3. Who was really killed in the magazine if it wasn't the Brently Mallard they knew?
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You have fantastic questions that I'd like to open class with on Thursday, if that's okay with you. Especially "and yet she loved him--sometimes". I still think your answers are two vague. You choose strong quotes but you don't dissect/examine them at all. That means that you don't completely answer the questions.
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