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 is a stronger emotion for the princess right now because she would much rather he die then be with the girl she hates
CHARACTERIZATION: What are some characteristics of the princess?
jealous, kind, kinda barbaric.
CONFLICT: What is the young man accused of?
The young man is accused of loving the kings daughter without his permission
3. Think about entertainment as a method of control in The Hunger Games. How does the king’s method of administering justice relate?
The kings method of administering justice relates because the audience has the feeling of suspense, because of the person having to chose a door.
2. How might schadenfreude play a role in the king’s method of administering justice?
Schadenfreude plays a big role because if the king watched someone get eaten by a tiger, it has to be a little bit enjoyable.
1. Is the king’s method of administering justice fair?
The kings method is not fair, because your leaving fate to there decision rather than the truth.
Then the gay brass bells rang forth their merry peals, the people shouted glad hurrahs, and the innocent man, preceded by children strewing flowers on his path, led his bride to his home.
This means that if you are already married, you are going to be punished in one way, either having to give up your wife for someone(though there beautiful though), or get eaten by a tiger.
This vast amphitheater, with its encircling galleries, its mysterious vaults, and its unseen passages, was an agent of poetic justice,
This means that this was the place of mistery.
but, whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits
This means that when something is off about the kingdom, especially if something that he ordered goes wrong, he can get bland.
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease — of the joy that kills.
She was extremely happy to have him gone, that it killed her.
long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.
This helps prove my point to the fact that her husband had made her feel some way of being traped, and even though she loves him, she's "free"
"free, free, free!"
By this does this mean that she is joyful of her husbands death? This could mean shes finally "free". Has her husband done something to act all sweet and warm to him?
tumultuously
making a loud, confused noise; uproarious.
peddler
a person who goes from place to place selling small items.
afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.
Does this mean that Mrs. Mallard has some disease in her heart that can get serious if she get to "emotional"?
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed!—tear up the planks! here, here!—It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
Does this mean that he went psycho because he had to hold in the sound of the mans heart?
The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them.
did him being a pyscopath risk and save his life?
Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me.
Could this be the reason he is going mad? Or the reason that hes driven from his madness?
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 finaly think like a real man and try to run, or stay as psychopathic as he has and do something terrible?
A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine.
This is a great metaphor saying that he was moving so slow that minutes went by and he had made next to no movements/sound, which sound greatly imposible, could the disease be altering a lot of what he sees and feels?
to take the life of the old man
Taking the life of some one because of their eye is psycho. could the "disease" be leading him through this "Idea"?
first the idea
This "Idea" could make this book go many ways, most likely to something evil, wrong, or disatorus.
The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.
Had the "disease" made him go mad?
TRUE!—NERVOUS—VERY, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
What is the narrator talking about... this is a strange starting line...
He hadn't written in years. Magazines and books didn't sell any more.
Does this help prove the point to a high-tech future?
three cars to one.
Why would they lower their defenses. If crime was ebbing, there is still a chance for crime rates to elevate.
He turned back on a side street, circling around toward his home. He was within a block of his destination when the lone car turned a corner quite suddenly and flashed a fierce white cone of light upon him. He stood entranced, not unlike a night moth, stunned by the illumination, and then drawn toward it. A metallic voice called to him: "Stand still. Stay where you are! Don't move!"
is there some kind of law forbidding people outside late at night, or did Mr. Leonard Mead do something else unforgiving on a walk?
Time for a dozen assorted murders?
Does this mean that he is one of few brave enough to walk at night because of this fear of murders?
A.D. 2053
This is the date the book takes place.
to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.
Mr. Leonard Mead loved to walk through the street, and what seems like the park peacefully.