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  1. May 2020
    1. Which is the stronger emotion: love or jealousy? Do you think love or jealousy is a stronger emotion for the princess? Why?

      I think that jealousy took over and that she let him die because she could not bare to see him with another women.

    2. Think about entertainment as a method of control in The Hunger Games. How does the king’s method of administering justice relate?

      This shows his people not to do something wrong because this could happen to you. It also shows that he has the power to send people to be eaten by tigers, therefore watch out.

    3. How might schadenfreude play a role in the king’s method of administering justice?

      I think that people will laugh when the people die because the are so accustomed to violence.

    4. In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric.

      Long ago their was a half crazy King, He had Ideas that were good, but no one could understand them.

    5. in which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance.

      He shows the people who broke the law dying to show everyone that you don't want to break the law.

    6. though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled,

      He has ideas but they are to vague and confusing for people to understand.

    1. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease — of the joy that kills.

      I thought it was the other way around. What a plot twist. That is so sad about her heart.

    2. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will

      Is there a demon trying to posses her.

    3. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky.

      She is depressed and is looking for god to help.

    1. “dissemble no more! I admit the deed!—tear up the planks! here, here!—It is the beating of his hideous heart!”

      He admitted to it. He will go to jail.

    2. I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in bed, crying out—“Who's there?”

      Will he catch him? Will this creepy person go to jail.

    3. very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them.

      I think something traumatizing happened in his life.