https://padlet.com/naomi_willis1/bd7d7fdn8mzn Naomi WIllis en-us 2019-12-17 21:34:03 UTC 2026-03-17 12:19:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f643.png naomi_willis1 https://padlet.com/naomi_willis1/bd7d7fdn8mzn/wish/425248018 "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 husbands death..." This is the beginning of the story where people thought her husband had died by a car accident and they had to break the news the the wife. "There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself." Someone Told the wife that the husband had died and she was as happy as ever. She was free and happy and didn't have to live for her husband. "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--- of joy that kills." The wife had seen her husband and realized he was alive and died of her heart being overwhelmed with the dread that he was alive.]]> 2019-12-17 21:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/naomi_willis1/bd7d7fdn8mzn/wish/425248018 naomi_willis1 https://padlet.com/naomi_willis1/bd7d7fdn8mzn/wish/425252255 Mrs. Mallard: A women who seemed trapped because she was living for her husband and not for herself. "There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself." When she heard the news of her husbands death, she became filled with joy. She was finally free, she thought. Later in the story, her mood changed from being extremely happy to extremely shocked because she saw her husband and that he was alive resulting in her dying of heart attack. "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of joy that kills"]]> 2019-12-17 21:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/naomi_willis1/bd7d7fdn8mzn/wish/425252255 naomi_willis1 https://padlet.com/naomi_willis1/bd7d7fdn8mzn/wish/425706605 Human Vs Self: Mrs. Mallard was sad that she was gone but also happy."Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul""When she abandned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips... "free,free,free!... She did not stop to askif it were or were not a monstrous joy that held er. A clear and exalted perception neabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial."

Human Vs Nature: Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death"


Human Vs Human/Society: Mrs. Mallard felt imprisoned by her husband. She was living for him and not for herself. "There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature"]]> 2019-12-18 22:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/naomi_willis1/bd7d7fdn8mzn/wish/425706605 naomi_willis1 https://padlet.com/naomi_willis1/bd7d7fdn8mzn/wish/426097630 Foreshadowing: In the beginning of the story, the author puts in that Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble, Which later in the story she dies from a heart attack. 
"Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death".


Figurative Language: "powerless as her two white slender hands would have been" This is a simile because it uses like or as to compare powerless to her hand.  

Imagery:"kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead."  You can picture a tender looking dead man in a casket.

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