https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81 Parker, Alexa, Ellora, Jordyn, & Lauren en-us 2017-09-06 16:45:39 UTC 2017-09-07 16:51:03 UTC hello@padlet.com cedwards11 https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185213877 Specific example from Ethan Frome (including parenthetical citation)]]> 2017-09-06 16:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185213877 aralden20 https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185214798 "Guess he's been in Starkfield too many winters" (Chapter 1)
"He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe..." (Chapter 1)
Ethan Frome is in the winter of his life. He is now frozen, he has nowhere to go, he's stuck with the consequences of the choices he had made years ago. ]]> 2017-09-06 16:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185214798 aralden20 https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185218848 "He had taken to the girl from the very first day..." (Chapter 1)
Ethan is in the end of summer/early fall of his life. When people get around that age, they either stay the same or try something different because they're getting to the end of their lives. Ethan decides that he is in love with Mattie at this point. ]]> 2017-09-06 16:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185218848 aralden20 https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185318615 "But it was not only that the coming to his house of a bit of hopeful young life was like the lighting of a fire on a cold hearth." (Chapter 1)
When we think of spring we generally think of youth, happiness, hope ,love, etc. Spring reminds Ethan of Mattie, because she is young and full of life. ]]> 2017-09-06 21:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185318615 aralden20 https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185320441 "Right into the big elm. You said we could. So't we'd never have to leave each other any more." ( Chapter 9)
Winter symbolizes death most of the time, whether it's the death of innocence or of hope, or in this case the attempted death of a human. Mattie wants to die with Ethan so they'd never have to be apart again. They plan to sled down the hill right into an elm tree and die together.]]> 2017-09-06 21:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185320441 aralden20 https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185324071 On the cover of the book there is a winter scene. People can tell that this is the scene right after Mattie and Ethan sled down the hill because there are sled marks in the snow. The picture is very gray and depressing just like the story. ]]> 2017-09-06 21:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cedwards11/abpvqzu0qh81/wish/185324071