hat is Margaret Atwood commenting on through the creation of this story?
I think she is trying to tell us that it is ok to have a diverse story plot, or Idea.
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- May 2020
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There was once-""What's this was, once? Enough of the dead past. Tell me about now.""There-""So?""So, what?""So, why not here?"
welp, no story, but this was, something i guess
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There was once a girl-""How old was she?""I don't know. She was young."
this just sounds like improve or something
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"Poor is relative. She lived in a house, didn't she?""Yes.""Then socio-economically speaking, she was not poor."
I like how they are questioning what Poor actually means
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She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs
shes going to hurt herself and her sister, just goes to show what grief can do
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No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life
I thought an elixir was a potion or something, but She was drinking IN an elixir, what does this mean?
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she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory
the goddess of victory is Nike. a little bit of Greek mythology
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with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance
this is very realistic to me because when I read this I could just picture the emotions going on in her head as she is being told for the first time that her husband is dead.
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Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God!—no, no! They heard!
when I read this, just reading his paranoia made me anxious.
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and pulled the heavy bed over him
like shoving dirt under a rug, but with a dead body.
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to feel the presence of my head within the room.
this is interesting to me because I get this feeling all the time, I read about a test showing how most people are able to feel people watching them
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I did not hear him lie down.
this guy is so crazy hes listening for the right time to strike
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I made up my mind to take the life of the old man
the fact that his decision to just kill the old man that dast must mean there is a good reason, Right?
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