Close Reading by Andrea Hartman https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96 Find 3 details that paint a picture of Holcomb. Add your explanation for why you included the detail and what it means. en-us 2022-03-28 18:41:18 UTC 2022-03-30 19:37:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Detail 1 andreahartman https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2119742961 The detail, “… the keening hysteria of coyotes,” (page 5) stuck out to me because not only is it an accurate description of what coyotes sound like when they get together and cackle, but also because it lends a feeling of unease to the opening. It makes you feel isolated and perhaps a little scared, and helps to paint a picture of a town that is humble and hardworking, but not immune to wildness. ]]> 2022-03-29 16:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2119742961 detail 1 https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122181112 The fact that they could only have 3.2 beer. They were one of few states that were still considered a dry state. ]]> 2022-03-30 19:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122181112 https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122181926 Detail, " Quite content to exist inside ordinary life." They did normal things any town would do. The town was ordinary. So when these murders happened that's why it was so big because they were just an ordinary town and violence was very abnormal.]]> 2022-03-30 19:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122181926 Detail 1 https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122182597 The detail, "At the time not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them-four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives." I think this is important because it shows how no one in Holcomb was aware about the shooting when is was going down.]]> 2022-03-30 19:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122182597 Detail 2 https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122185195 The detail, "... few Kansans-had ever heard of Holcomb." This is important because Holcomb was a town that wasn't heard of until after the murder.]]> 2022-03-30 19:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122185195 detail 2 https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122185371 There were only 4 shotgun blasts but 6 people were killed. Leaves the reader wondering how the other 2 people died and who died. ]]> 2022-03-30 19:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122185371 https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122187060 "At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign - DANCE - but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years." The author is implying that the town was once lively but it now seems more abandoned.]]> 2022-03-30 19:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122187060 Detail 3 https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122190140 The detail, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plain of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there." This is important because it shows the reader how irrelevant the town of Holcomb was to the people of Kansas.]]> 2022-03-30 19:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122190140 Details https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122190303 1.)On page 4 it states that "nearby is another building with an irrelevant sign, this one in flaking gold on a dirty window." This is an important detail because it outlines the setting and gives us a picture of the town.


]]> 2022-03-30 19:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122190303 "Up on the highway, there are two filling stations, one of which doubles as a meagerly supplied grocery store, while the other does extra duty as a cafe" This shows that it was a small town. Wahoo is small and it has a grocery store, so it's smaller than wahoo. https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122190606 2022-03-30 19:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122190606 detail 3 https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122191506 After the killings, the people in the town treated each other as strangers. Shows the reader that the people of the town were close and knew each other well and that the killings tore the community apart leaving them with mistrust and uncertainty towards eachother. ]]> 2022-03-30 19:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122191506 Detail 2 https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122192866 On page 5 it says "fearful of each other to seldom trouble to lock their doors found fantasy recreating them over and again", this is an important detail because it shows how small the town is.]]> 2022-03-30 19:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122192866 Detail 5 https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122195775 On page 5 it says "Holcomb heard them- four shotgun blasts, that all told, ended six human lives." This foreshadows the murder itself and gives us a perspective of how fast it all happened.]]> 2022-03-30 19:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/andreahartman/4fl5vyhyd5665n96/wish/2122195775