KEY QUOTES ABOUT NATURE by Tim Kercher https://padlet.com/tkercher/1is60seaqe25 from "The Devil and Tom Walker" en-us 2017-09-30 13:47:19 UTC 2026-01-28 13:54:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Slytherin https://padlet.com/tkercher/1is60seaqe25/wish/193048369
  • Nature in this story is very dark and sinister. 
    • ¨there was a great amount of treasure buried by the kid pirate.¨
    • Dark and dangerous swamp
    • Nature is dark and sinister with no happiness
    • The land is ¨haunted¨"by an evil spirit of the indians
    • This spirit is a dark indian         
     ¨The old stories add, moreover, that the devil presided at the hiding
    of the money and took it under his guardianship;¨ ( paragraph 1) 
    • Tam walker is a greedy man with an abusive wife. 
    • ¨there lived near this place a ,eager misery fellow of the name of tom walker. He has a wife as miserly as himself...they lived in a forlorn looking house, that stood alone and had an air of starvation. ¨

    ]]>     2017-10-02 15:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/1is60seaqe25/wish/193048369     Seniors https://padlet.com/tkercher/1is60seaqe25/wish/193049205 "A Gulf of black Smothering Mud."  Shows the darker side of the story. 

    "like most short-cuts, it was an ill-chosen route" 

    "The swamp was thickly grown with gray gloomy pines and hemlocks,"

    These both give vastly vivid descriptions.
     
    "But he felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place." 

    The world is set up to show a place full of greed and envy, along with Evil and Hatred. 

    "thunderous" shows the dark weather that adds to the mood of the writing. 


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