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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 the stronger emotion in general is love. But i think that the princess is the exception to this rule. I think this for two reasons. One we have seen that she is barbaric and lives in a barbarian tribe. this could mean that she is desensitized to violence and would rather him die that someone else have him. And we have also seen her to be very jelous of this specific woman in the past with the same man and that was over somthing small not a lifetime together. I think that is why she found out the woman. So that she would know shich door to tell him to open.

    2. What are some characteristics of the princess?

      She is barbaric in nature as she is their on the judgement day of her lover. She is also determined as she found out the secret of the arena and smart for the same reason. She is also jealous because just her lover talking to another woman makes her angry and she is finding reasons to hat this woman now. She is also pashionate about her lover as being with him is a risk on its own. It apears she also does not care much about what class she marries into.

    3. What is the young man accused of?

      He is accused of having an affair with and loving the kings daughter. This shows that the king is overprotective and will not let his daughter make her own choices. it also shows that she could not marry his if she asked because he is lowborn. This shows how much your parents mattered at this time.

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

      The king, with his gruesume form of justice where you are punished guilty or inooceent and people watch this as entertainment. This is similair to the hunger games as the children are innocent and they still must die for entertainment. and even if they win they are still messed up in the head so they dont truly win. this is simlair to the kings justice. They are similar because both see the government scaring people into being good with loose, loose courts even if they are found innocent.

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

      Both sides of this have the accused loose. this is because on one side they get eaten and on the other side they are married to someone not of their choice. So schadenfreude plays in because either way the king is seeing someone suffer and so he must like that. He is sitting there watching and so he likes others misfortunes.

    6. Is the king’s method of administering justice fair?

      It is fair in the perfect sense of the word. It is this way because it is a fifety fifty chance of diening or being married, with no corruption or inlfuence on the choice. However it is not fair because someone could be wrongly accused and choose wrong and that is not fair. Somone could also have committed the crime and pick the right door and that is not fair either. So it is "fair" in theory but in practice it is not.

    7. It mattered not that he might already possess a wife and family, or that his affections might be engaged upon an object of his own selection; the king allowed no such subordinate arrangements to interfere with his great scheme of retribution and reward.

      The king does not care if you are already married or loved somone else. He thinks that this is the correct way to do it so he does it this way. This is the very definition of a tyrant. he has all the power and there are no exections.

    8. The moment that the case of the criminal was thus decided, doleful iron bells were clanged, great wails went up from the hired mourners posted on the outer rim of the arena, and the vast audience, with bowed heads and downcast hearts, wended slowly their homeward way, mourning greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected, should have merited so dire a fate.

      This is a trial by absolute chance. The idea is that a person will be guided by the gods to not die. you must Open the corrupt door. then they get a prise if they choose the correct door and they are married to a woman. THis is a loose loose situation because you either die or do not get to marry who you want.

    9. This vast amphitheater, with its encircling galleries, its mysterious vaults, and its unseen passages, was an agent of poetic justice, in which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance.

      Trial of some kind. Probably similar to a trial by combat but with more chance. Maybe it is a fierce animal released and they must see who it eats first. then that would be completely chance.

    10. but, whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits, he was blander and more genial still, for nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places.

      THis sentence mean that he liked it when people fail because then he can get mad at them. This shows what kind of man he is as this makes it seem like is is a tyrant who is messed up in the head. Also if he is nicer when people fail because he can be mean to them later that means he is mad.

    1. She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs

      SHe finally comes to cope and be ready to accept that her husband is dead. Then him not being dead is a shock to her. So then she could now have a heart attack from surprise. She may also now be disappointed that she is not free anymore. So all of her emotions and reactions are invalid because her husband is alive.

    2. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.

      She has now all of the sudden stopped caring about her husband, why? WHy would she not mourn him? If she loved him, how is she moving on so quickly?

    3. free, free, free!

      She is happy even though here husband died. While my prediction about her planning this was off, she does show that in a way, even if it was only in the back of her mind, she wanted this. She is free but at what cost? Will she ever really be free from a loss like this? is anyone ever free from a loss like this?

    4. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.

      She reacts very differently to the death than most people would. This could either mean she was expecting this, or she has a preexisting mental problem. Judging by the stories we have read in class, I will guess that she could have planned this and it was all an act.

    5. 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 foreshadows that she will most likely have a bad reaction to this. Her friends could even be worried about her having a heart attack and dying as well. We can predict that she will have a bad reaction and have a long recovery to make.

    1. If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.

      This just shows that he is more mad if he made preparations for after he had killed somebody. This shows more so than anything else that he is insane. Also why not just say he had a heart attack or stroke or something of that nature?

    2. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim

      This man is very crazy is he is thinking about what the man is thinking. Also, why does he moves so slow and not just open the door, walk in and kill him. He thinks he is being clever but he is really just being inefficient. Why not just kill him already? Does he not want to kill him?

    3. I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights—every night just at midnight—but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye

      So he cannot kill the man unless his eyes are open? This also shows that he is insane as a normal person, if they wanted to get rid of someone, would just do it and not wait until the eye was open in his sleep. This also shows that he likes the man and is only killing him because of his eye.

    4. t. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.

      If he doesn't want anything, that could show that he is insane as everyone wants something. Him wanting to kill the old man simply because of only his eyes also shows he is mad. No sane person feels uncomfortable simply because of someone else's eyes and no sane person would kill someone because they are uncomforatble.

    5. heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

      People who are crazy often do not think they are crazy. This is very dangerous because they do not get help and end up doing bad things. This is foreshadowing that he will do something bad later in the book. He also is probably mad.

    1. "Yes," said the voice. "Here." There was a sigh, a pop. The back door of the police car sprang wide. "Get in." "Wait a minute, I haven't done anything!"

      If this is a crime that they are arresting him for, then this is an unfair society. Also do these police not have actual criminals to go after? Also how has this never happened before in the ten years he has been walking?

    2. "And you have a viewing screen in your house to see with?"

      In this future, do people have everything they need in there homes so they never leave? Why is there only one police car? Don't they have bigger issues to deal with than one man walking? Is there no crime to deal with?

    3. he had never met another person walking, not once in all that time.

      Why has he never seen someone walking? is it dangerous or do people just want to do other things or is there just no one there to walk? In the ten years he has been walking, has he seen anyone else at all?

    4. Time for a dozen assorted murder

      This could be showing that he is either a very negative person of that where he lives is crime ridden and very dangerous. But then why would he be walking alone at night?

    5. he was alone in this world of A.D. 2053, or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.

      It seems that this is in the future. Mr. Leonard also seems to be alone. It seems that the population has been cut down severely. So this could be a dystopian future like many books we have read. He could be as good as alone because he could have no family or friends.