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    E Period Short Stories - "The Lady, or the Tiger?"
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    1. katie.byxbee 20 May 2020
      Which is the stronger emotion: love or jealousy? Do you think love or jealousy is a stronger emotion for the princess? Why?

      I would say that jealousy is a stronger emotion than love because when people feel jealousy they tend to act before they think. When someone feels love, it is calm and no one can steal it. I think jealousy is a stronger emotion for the princess because the princess already had a more violent vision to the youth opening the door with the beautiful women behind it. For example, the story talks about the princess gnashing her teeth, pulling her hair, shrieking, and having her soal burned in agony when she envisions the youth with the beautiful women.

    4. katie.byxbee 20 May 2020
      3. Think about entertainment as a method of control in The Hunger Games. How does the king’s method of administering justice relate?

      I think the king’s method of administering justice relates to The Hunger Games because just like The Hunger Games, the purpose was to show how the government was the most powerful and could control everything.

    5. katie.byxbee 20 May 2020
      2. How might schadenfreude play a role in the king’s method of administering justice?

      I think that the king’s method of administering justice was a type of schadenfreude because he enjoyed watching people be devoured if the criminal chose the door with the tiger behind it.

    6. katie.byxbee 20 May 2020
      1. Is the king’s method of administering justice fair?

      I believed the way the king administered justice was unfair because whether a person accused of a crime was guilty or not, the punishment was determined by fate and the criminal was either attacked by a tiger or wed to a beautiful woman.

    7. katie.byxbee 19 May 2020
      But, if the accused person opened the other door, there came forth from it a lady, the most suitable to his years and station that his majesty could select among his fair subjects, and to this lady he was immediately married, as a reward of his innocence. 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.

      In my opinion, both doors are not considered "good". However, I can see how this door could be better because you get to live.

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    E Period Short Stories - "The Tell-Tale Heart"
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    1. katie.byxbee 13 May 2020
      es, he was stone, stone dead. I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes.

      Why would he put his hand over his heart if he already knew he was dead?

    2. katie.byxbee 13 May 2020
      The old man's terror must have been extreme! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!—do you mark me well I have told you that I am nervous: so I am.

      How could the old man's terror make him nervous is the old man was really afraid of him?

    4. katie.byxbee 13 May 2020
      And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel—although he neither saw nor heard—to feel the presence of my head within the room.

      How could the old man feel his head in the room?

    5. katie.byxbee 13 May 2020
      I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

      Although it seems like he dose not care about the old man's life, he still tried to give him the best last week of his life.

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    E Period Short Stories - "The Story of an Hour"
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    2. katie.byxbee 12 May 2020
      And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself.

      She is seeing the good that will follow her husbands death because she will live for herself.

    3. katie.byxbee 11 May 2020
      She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.

      It seems like a normal spring day in her town. She also notices these event even though she is so sad and tired.

    4. katie.byxbee 11 May 2020
      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.

      Mrs. Mallard had a different reaction to her husband's death than most people because she started crying immediately.

    5. katie.byxbee 11 May 2020
      Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

      Richard was a good friend because we wanted to make sure Mr. Mallard was dead before he put it in the paper.

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