"The Death of the Moth" - Woolf --There are 2 questions here; answer both! by Tammi L Fritz https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd #1 - Describe the speaker's attitude specifically in paragraph 2 but then overall as you "hear" her discuss the topic throughout the essay. Be specific in how you characterize her attitude (tone), and avoid using vague descriptors (good, bad, positive, negative, etc.). #2 - Woolf doesn't explicitly state a thesis for this essay; rather, she implicitly reveals her thesis. How would you state this main idea? Use textual evidence to support your claims. en-us 2017-07-19 20:10:01 UTC 2020-10-24 12:09:23 UTC hello@padlet.com Mrs. Fritz tfritz2 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179066531 Be sure you've read the instructions on the G.C. page for this assignment.]]> 2017-07-19 20:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179066531 Chloe Barham https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179162015 #1 - The speaker's attitude in paragraph 2 of "The Death of the Moth" is very pitying towards the moth in question, due to Woolf's descriptions of the speaker feeling sorry for the "moth's part in life", seemingly so small in comparison to that morning's "possibility of pleasure" enjoyed by "the rooks, the ploughmen, [and] the horses". The speaker's attitude progressively becomes more resigned as he or she perceives the moth has become. By the time the moth dies, the speaker views the moth as "most decently and uncomplainingly composed" with its death, and due to the essay being from the point of view from the speaker, this interpretation conveys the tone of resignation not only through the moth, but through the speaker's thoughts on the moth.]]> 2017-07-21 02:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179162015 Chase Frow https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179360817 #1 - The tone of Woolf’s essay, “The Death of the Moth,” is piteous and filled with fascination. In the second paragraph, which reflects the sympathy, Woolf describes the energy the moth possesses but then reveals the poignancy of the situation: Although the “possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous,” the moth could only enjoy its “meagre opportunities.” She pitied the moth and its “frail and diminutive body,” describing it as “pathetic.” The moth “was little or nothing but life.” Woolf continued to observe the moth throughout the morning, showing her fascination in its motives and actions. Representing the purest and simplest form of life, the moth fluttered about the window and eventually faced the inevitable. The struggle of life against death presented itself through the moth, and Woolf’s tone shifted to awe; the moth’s “minute wayside triumph” against death was inspiring to all life.]]> 2017-07-25 01:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179360817 Chase Frow https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179361233 #2 - The main idea of “The Death of the Moth” is the connection of the moth to human life, and Woolf implies this through the moth’s eventual fight against death. At the beginning of the essay, Woolf had a “feeling of pity” for the moth because of its “meagre opportunities.” The moth’s “frail and diminutive body” was “little or nothing but life” and energy, but death soon proved that the moth’s life is like any other. Facing an “oncoming doom which could… have submerged… masses of human beings,” the moth encountered death. As the moth exerted “extraordinary efforts” against death, Woolf’s “sympathies… were all on the side of life.” The moth’s “wayside triumph of so great a force over” death is inspiring, and its fight is present in all life, even a human life.]]> 2017-07-25 01:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179361233 Bonnie Fischer https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179544250 #2 - Instead of one mere idea, Woolf seems to explore two that are very prominent throughout the essay. In the beginning, she contrasts the life of a human and that of a moth, such as in the statement "The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth’s part in life, and a day moth’s at that, appeared a hard fate." After that, however, she explores a universal truth that exists among all creatures and existence itself- the inevitability of death: "masses of human beings; nothing, I knew, had any chance against death". Through this we can see that while the essay explored these two observations, it was created for the purpose of exposing what she did in her conclusion- that death cannot be escaped.]]> 2017-07-27 02:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179544250 Bonnie Fischer @ Chase Frow https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179545016 I agree with your perception of the essay. Throughout it, she was constantly comparing the moth to the human]]> 2017-07-27 02:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179545016 Bonnie Fischer @ Chloe Barham https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179545409 You're very spot regarding Woolf's tone, and I like how you addressed the she began to sound more resigned as the essay progresses.]]> 2017-07-27 02:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179545409 Bonnie Fischer https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179546198 #1 - After observing in wonder her life around her in the first paragraph, she begins to address the moth in the second paragraph with a tone that displays commiseration. It is obvious her "queer feeling of pity" for the moth, however it seems much stronger than blatantly stated. Her pity extends throughout the essay into true compassion, especially when she "stretched out a pencil, meaning to help him to right himself." When she realizes, though, that the moth must die as we all must one day die, through a new sense of understanding, she allows for "so mean an antagonist" as death to take it's next victim.]]> 2017-07-27 02:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179546198 Rendi Hendon https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179752482 #1 - Woolf's attitude in paragraph 2 is tranquil as she observes the moth's plight. Woolf recognizes the small part that the moth takes up in the world as she says ",in spite of the size of the downs, the width of the sky, the far-off smoke of houses, and the romantic voice, now and then, of a steamer out at sea. What he could do he did." The tone throughout the essay changes but helps to connect emotionally with the moth. The 4 paragraph gives the readers a sense of hope as she believes that the moth may yet live, but is crushed by the imminent death of the moth. ]]> 2017-07-31 07:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179752482 Rendi Hendon https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179753100 #2 - In Woolf's narration of " The Death of the Moth " the notion of life and death is highlighted as the main focus. Woolf sets the moth to be seen as "pathetic" and "frail" which foreshadows the death of the moth. The moth's death is seen as "marvelous as well as pathetic" and doing so accentuates that death overpowers all and is a battle that will never be won. ]]> 2017-07-31 07:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179753100 Kapri Bigham 19bighamkapri https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179804158 #1- The tone of the second paragraph in "The Death of the Moth" is portrayed as curious. Woolf states "the enormous energy of the world" has miraculously fueled this moth that is but a mere "thread" to the earth. She notices that the "same energy" that fuels "the horses" is simultaneously energizing the moth which proves that even though this creature is "frail" it contains a motivation from within that appears so steadfast that not even the approach of death can make it waver. As the essay progresses the tone starts as a light hearted amazement which was caused by the authors interest in the highly motivated moth and its will to be active to do all he was capable of. Woolf ends the essay with a more intrigued and slightly morbid tone. Woolf proves that no matter how great the will to survive is, death is approaching and can not be overcome,thereby causing her to become more forced on the death itself.
 ]]> 2017-07-31 23:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179804158 Kapri Bigham 19bighamkapri https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179807121 #2-The main idea of Woolfs essay is the strength of ones inner motivation is of no importance, death will prevail. The moth lived its life to the fullest, "do[ing] what he could do," "dancing" through life. It lived a "pure life" being content "enjoying his meager opportunities;" however, the moth appeared to have a "hard fate." Woolf made the moth appear so driven and unlike other creatures, it was so driven that it self itself apart. Even though "gigantic" and "extraordinary efforts" are used as the moth "protest[s]," the moth become "pity[iful]," "pathetic," and weak while it "struggle[s]ed" against the "approach of death." The moth continued to fight to survive, managing to stand itself upright. Woolf desired to help the moth with a "pencil," but she came to the rightful conclusion that her help would be of no use. The moths "failure" to live concludes that the desire to live is insufficient, death is inevitable.]]> 2017-08-01 00:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179807121 Kapri Bigham @ Bonnie Fischer 19bighamkapri https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179810125 I like that you expressed the comparison of human life to life of a moth, I saw that throughout the essay Woolf compared the two, which helps prove your second idea that death cannot be escaped since death is inevitable even for people.]]> 2017-08-01 00:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179810125 Kapri Bigham@ Chase Frow 19bighamkapri https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179810456 I also believe that Woolf was amused with the moth in the second paragraph. She saw that it "danced" and lived its life to its fullest, I also believe that she was intrigued with the amount of motivation found within the moth and agree that she may have found this inspiring.]]> 2017-08-01 01:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179810456 Chloe Barham https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179897924 #2 - The thesis of "The Death of the Moth" is not outright stated, but is rather obvious, regardless; that is the theme of death and submission. Upon the moths's actual death, the moth has submitted to the notion that "death is stronger than I am" after an initial struggle with both the thought of death, and with its own place and scope in life. The speaker realizes the moth's own tiny space in the world, and is "conscious of a queer feeling of pity for him" after bearing witness to the moth's boundless energy by the window pane. The moth is full of a zealous and full lock on life, but realizes as it is dying, how much of an "insignificant little creature" it really is. Though, rather than be daunted by this notion, fully accepts both its death and how much stronger death is than such a small moth, realizing and coming to terms with how small it really was.]]> 2017-08-01 23:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179897924 Chloe Barham@ Kapri Bigham https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179930536 I agree that Woolf's look on the death of that moth is representative of the speaker coming to terms with death as the moth had, as well as the essay becomes increasingly less positive and awe-inspiring as it goes on.]]> 2017-08-02 06:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179930536 Chloe Barham@ Bonnie Fischer https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179931358 I think that Woolf's observation on death and it's inevitability is an integral part of the essay, but I don't think that she's quite so negative as the chilling statement that "death cannot be escaped", but rather comes to accept it with resignation and no ill-will towards death.]]> 2017-08-02 06:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/179931358 Haley Phelan https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180087008 #1 - The tone of the essay is confused but also at the same time, sort of inquisitive... Woolf writes, " One was, indeed, conscious of a queer feeling of pity for him," but she is also delighted by the display of the fluttering moth. Woolf is unsure of how to feel as she watches the moth struggle distracting her from her work for even a moment which leads her to think about more broad concepts about her perceptions of life itself. She claims that someone "had set it dancing and zig– zagging to show us the true nature of life" which is quite the inquisitive but odd thought for someone to pull from just watching a moth for a little while, but it gives the reader a bit of insight into the thought process and "wiring" of the author's brain. ]]> 2017-08-04 00:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180087008 Haley Phelan https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180087962 #2 - The main idea of this essay is to address the oddity that is life and death. Woolf writes that she was unsure of this moth who seems to be a sort of "hybrid" and as she observes this moth it behaves in different ways seeming to represent different times in life. When Woolf begins watching this moth in the window pane it is lively and "he flew vigorously to one corner of his compartment, and, after waiting there a second, flew across to the other." The moth is being very repetitive and yet he seems to be enjoying himself, and to Woolf this seems to symbolize one's ability to ignore the oncoming horrors. However, he cannot continue on forever and eventually grows tired which leads to his stiff awkwardness as he attempts to continue his dance even in his fatigue. Then it happens so suddenly, he just stops moving and lays still finally dead. ]]> 2017-08-04 00:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180087962 Haley Phelan @Kapri Bigham https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180088892 I agree, I really enjoy how you brought to attention the slow downfall of the moth from "dancing" to "pitiful, pathetic and weak."]]> 2017-08-04 01:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180088892 Haley Phelan @Bonnie Fischer https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180089103 I agree, and I really like how you sort of personified death in your explanation. It was an interesting, artistic addition]]> 2017-08-04 01:14:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180089103 Krystian Ayala https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180205157 #1 - Woolf looks upon the moth with scorn in paragraph two and belittles it with most words. She shows interest in it and “One could not help watching him”, meaning Woolf might have been bored and distracted enough to continue watching a moth move around a window. Eventually as time goes on she is still watching the moth be “pathetic” it rests and Woolf forgets about it which shows she does not care enough about it to watch it any longer until it tries to move again. Noticing it is close to death Woolf leaves it be again and is in a resolved manner with the moth while reflecting upon life and the moth.]]> 2017-08-06 20:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180205157 Chase Frow @ Krystian Ayala https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180206369 I agree with you that Woolf presented a scornful and belittling view towards the moth, and I especially see the evidence for the tone where the moth was described as “little or nothing but life.” I also see sympathy mixed into the tone you discussed because of the use of “frail” and “helpless.” While she is resolved concerning the moth at the end of the essay, I believe the death of the moth left her bewildered: Woolf described both life and death as “strange.”

]]> 2017-08-06 21:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180206369 Deanna Burton https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180305280 #1-  The tone represented in "The Death of the Moth" is speculative and commiserative.  Woolf writes of an encounter with a moth, and how she watches him while he "dances" from one side of the window to the next. She ponders on the moth for a moment explaining that he has the "same energy which inspired the rooks, the ploughmen, and the horses." She wonders "what remained for him but to fly to a third corner then to a fourth?"  Woolf then notices the longer he flutters the more he grows tired and she then has a "queer feeling of pity for him." She continues to watch until she was "on the side of life" for the moth, furthermore "death was stronger" as the moth "relaxed, and instantly grew stiff." For Woolf "death is now strange," and she is speculative about life and how "death is stronger;" as well as, she is commiserative for the moth, because the only thing he could live for was death, as his time had come to pass.

]]> 2017-08-07 21:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180305280 Sophia Britto https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180316822 #1 - The tone conveyed in the second paragraph of "The Death of the Moth" is observant and pitiful. Virginia Woolf watches the moth as it flies from the same two corners of the window, and although she seems to admire how it is "little or nothing but life," she realizes that it remains in that pattern because it is unable to go anywhere else. The tone remains similar to what it was in the second paragraph as she curiously watches the moth's death and sympathetically helps it off of its back because "there was nobody to care or to know." Woolf also has a sense of awe for the moth's display of the "true nature of life" shown to people through its dancing and its "decently and uncomplainingly composed" appearance in its death.]]> 2017-08-08 00:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180316822 Sophia Britto https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180319443 #2 - The main idea of Woolf's essay is to discuss the differences between the life of a "day moth" and a person by highlighting the events of a moth that she observes. The simplicity of its own life compared to the "many narrow and intricate corridors" within a person's mind is admirable. "What [the moth] could do he did," is attractive to someone with their own complex lives when they too wish they could use such a small sliver of the "enormous energy of the world" and apply it to something just as simple with as much "zest" the moth had as it flew across the window.]]> 2017-08-08 00:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180319443 Deanna Burton https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180406128 #2- The main idea of "The Death of the Moth" is life is but a vapor and death is inevitable. Woolf watches a moths journey to death ]]> 2017-08-08 19:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180406128 Christian Hurd https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180503736 #1- Woolf's tone in paragraph two is cynical. As she watches the "pathetic" moth, she realizes its life carries little meaning, as "all he could do" is fly from corner to corner of a dusty window. Woolf's tone then shifts to contemplative as she discovers that we are all like the moth, being "little or nothing but life," until we grow "tired by [our] dancing" and succumb to the inescapable jaws of death.]]> 2017-08-09 16:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180503736 Christian Hurd https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180506954 #2- Woolf's main idea in "The Death of the Moth" is to explore the dynamic of life and death itself. Through her insightful observations of a dying moth, Woolf concludes that humans, moths and all living creatures are bound to a single truth- that "nothing... had any chance against death." Additionally she explores the idea that both life and death are constantly working against us, and that both experiences could be summed up as "strange."]]> 2017-08-09 17:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180506954 Christian Hurd @ Sophia https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180509454 I do agree that Woolf has a very pitiful tone in paragraph two. She seems to have sympathy for it, but she seems to view it with such insignificance that she is indifferent towards it.]]> 2017-08-09 17:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180509454 Andrew McIntosh https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180510785 #1- Woolf has much pity for the moth in paragraph two made explicit when they describe their "queer feeling of pity," for the moth. This is due to the near insignificance of the moth to the massive and beautiful portrait of the landscape. She sees the moth as a near nothing in the grand scheme of the environment but is still entranced by the moth as it fights the "approach of death," with all of it's might even though his efforts are in vain. However near the end of the passage she hints at a small amount of admiration for the "insignificant" moth because of it's "extraordinary efforts" to fight off the cold grasp of death. ]]> 2017-08-09 17:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180510785 Christian Hurd @ Haley https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180512779 I think it's interesting and agreeable how you suggested that the different ways the moth behaves represents different stages of life.]]> 2017-08-09 18:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180512779 Andrew McIntosh https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180514411 #2- I would say the main idea of "The Death of the Moth" is that no matter how much you fight or struggle nothing can stop death. No matter if you're as insignificant as a moth or as influential as a human you can't control what lives and what dies. This is supported by the speaker who "stretched out a pencil" to aid the quivering moth, but as soon as they realize it's dying they "laid the pencil down," because there was nothing thy could do. Even though the moth fought with all it's will, it was a fruitless endeavor. ]]> 2017-08-09 18:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180514411 Andrew McIntosh @ Bonnie Fischer https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180524444 I like the comparison between the moth and the person that you and how different they are, and how insignificant the life of the moth is compared to their life.]]> 2017-08-09 20:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180524444 Andrew McIntosh @ Christian Hurd https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180526769 I think what you said was profound and very well spoken. In addition I find it interesting how she sums of two massive concepts (life and death) as "strange." However I like the simplicity of her explanation. ]]> 2017-08-09 20:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180526769 Krystian Ayala https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180531809 #2 Woolf’s main idea is based on most living organisms being subject to death, or just mortal. When watching the moth fly around during the day “dancing and zigzagging” Woolf makes several remarks about the moth and restates how “pathetic” it is a couple of times for being full of energy. Later the moth rests on the window and tries to move again but can not as it is dying which Woolf soon realized “that the failure and awkwardness were the approach of death”. With death imminent for the moth she thinks about the power of death and as she does the moth struggles one last time to fix itself but then goes still and does not move again, the “insignificant little creature now knew death”.]]> 2017-08-09 21:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180531809 Chase Frow @ Andrew McIntosh https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180637197 I agree that Woolf shows admiration for the moth at the end of the essay. Woolf respects the moth’s “extraordinary efforts… against death” and is left in awe after the moth’s “minute wayside triumph” over the inevitable. These tones are probably a result of her “sympathies… on the side of life.” ]]> 2017-08-10 17:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180637197 Mekayla Sisemore https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180671102 #1- The tone displayed in paragraph two is sympathy. Woolf sees the rooks "soaring round the treetops" and flying freely. But then she sees the moth who can only fly the span of the window. no where near being free. The rooks fly freely with little energy meanwhile the moth uses all its energy to fly across the window. Woolf shows sympathy towards the moth who uses all its energy to fly but will never fly freely. ]]> 2017-08-10 23:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180671102 Taylor McCaslin https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180806892 #1 - The overall tone in the second paragraph is commiserate. Although the moth is insignificant in her life, Woolf still stops to observe the moth and it's futile attempt to fight against death. Woolf describes a "queer feeling of sympathy" that she began to feel for the moth as she watched and as she began to raise a pencil to help it, but her tone shifts to something similar to resignation. Woolf "laid her pencil" down once again once she realized that the moth was dying and nothing she could would be able to stop the end from coming.]]> 2017-08-12 16:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180806892 Taylor McCaslin https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180807150 #2 - Multiple ideas are explored throughout Woolf's essay, but one of the most predominant themes is the futility of life. Despite fighting for his life and experiencing a "minute...triumph," the moth lost to death in the long run. Comparisons between the moth and all living things can be drawn because death is the only true end for all living creatures - it is the only certain thing all cannot escape no matter how hard anyone fights against it.]]> 2017-08-12 16:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180807150 Taylor McCaslin @ Mekayla Sisemore https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180807276 I completely agree. The end of the moth's life is almost pitiful. Despite desperately trying to fly, the moth is caged while others continue to soar.]]> 2017-08-12 16:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180807276 Taylor McCaslin @ Andrew McIntosh https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180807575 I agree with your analysis of the main idea of the essay. Nothing can truly ward off death in the long run. One may fight against it, but it will always win in the end.]]> 2017-08-12 16:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180807575 Jadynn Lueb https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180818931 #1- The attitude of the speaker in Woolf's essay "The Death of the Moth" starts off as sympathetic towards the moth,  "He was little or nothing but life." the speaker observes the moth struggling to keep its breath and feels assent with the moth, "the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves,"  they realized that death was inescapable and began to understand the moth as equal instead of  "pathetic" and "awkward."]]> 2017-08-13 02:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180818931 Deanna Burton@ Haley Phelan https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180819905 I agree and find it thought-provoking how Woolf used a moth to describe life, and how we go along life not ever thinking of the outcome (death).  I would not think of this essay that way, but it is true how similar to the moth humans go along from "one corner to the other" until we say "death is stronger than I am." ]]> 2017-08-13 03:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180819905 Ashley Morgan https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180819911 #1- In "The Death of The Moth" Woolf displays an attitude of pity or sympathy for the moth. Woolf talks about how the moth can only fly from corner to corner despite all of the things around him, she says, "What he could do he did." She sees the other things that are able to fly around wherever they please but she begins to have pity for this poor moth who can only fly from corner to corner, the moth who is trapped inside the walls. After the first few paragraphs the author's pity seems to turn into what looks like admiration or respect for this tiny creature. Woolf talks about how she sees the moth continuing to fly around the window, but then it falls. She watches as it tries to correct itself with its tiny legs, but it can't. Woolf makes a point to tell the reader that the moth does not give up, it continues to fight to fix itself and ends up doing so. ]]> 2017-08-13 03:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180819911 Ashley Morgan @ Taylor https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820104 #1- I did not think of the essay in this light, but now I can see it this way. Although this is a very valid point, I still wish to think of the author's attitude as a hopeful one because she realizes that the moth won't give up, and this is what produces her attitude of respect for the tiny creature. ]]> 2017-08-13 03:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820104 Deanna Burton@ Taylor McCaslin https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820139 I find the way you describe the tone to be interesting, because I did not find her to have a revelation of what was happening to the moth until the very end of the essay when she felt that "death was strange." Woolf had an understanding of death, therefore she "cheered him on," and her "sympathy" overwhelmed her when "his body stiffened." I didn't see this in her while reading the second paragraph.]]> 2017-08-13 03:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820139 Ashley Morgan @ Chase https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820150 #1 - I did not think of the second paragraph as the author having sympathy, but I see where that comes from. I took that second paragraph as she had pity for the moth and was in a way mocking it by the way that she described it. ]]> 2017-08-13 03:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820150 Ashley Morgan https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820188 #2 - I think that the main idea of Woolf's essay is to show the differences between the moth and human life. Woolf talks of how the moth struggles with just going to corner to corner in the window, where all of the other creatures, including herself, can theoretically do anything that they want to. Woolf ends her story with the one connection that humans and moths have by saying, "O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am." I think that this last sentence is important because death is what essentially ties us to the moth, because it will overcome both of us. Throughout this story, I think that the moth somehow represents the humans. The moths couldn't go anywhere besides his corners, this represents the human struggles. The moth dies because of his struggles to turn himself back over after falling, and although if man falls he will not always die, we relate in this part in the fact that we don't control death. ]]> 2017-08-13 03:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820188 Ashley Morgan @ Bonnie Fischer https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820283 #2- I agree with you that Woolf talked specifically about these two things, and I especially agree that she is saying that death cannot be escaped. I also believe that she is trying to use the moth as a connection to us, and that its death is the final example. ]]> 2017-08-13 03:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820283 Ashley Morgan @ Sophia Britto https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820319 #2 - I agree that she is using the moth to point out the differences but I also think that she is using the moth as a way to explain the human day. As the moth struggled, we too struggle, and eventually we will all succumb to death as the moth has in this story. ]]> 2017-08-13 03:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820319 Jadynn Lueb https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820485 #2-  The theme of "The Death of the Moth," is that death is inevitable and all creatures are alike in that way. Woolf portrays a scene of undeniable fate through the moth trying to define the odds, "sent the moth fluttering from side to side." The speaker visions all life through the tiny "fragile" moth. ]]> 2017-08-13 03:37:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180820485 Jadynn Lueb @ Taylor https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180821149 #2- I agree with your view that Woolf is comparing the moth to other living things and that the theme draws to a conclusion that death is inescapable. ]]> 2017-08-13 04:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180821149 Jadynn Lueb @ Bonnie https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180821328 I like how you viewed her pity as compassion and interpreted that she tried to help but realized his fate.]]> 2017-08-13 04:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180821328 Ryan Brue https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180835916 #1- Woolf has an overall attitude that everything dies eventually, attempting to parallel the moth’s death with the inevitability of anything else’s death. In the second paragraph, Woolf appears to offer a little pity for the moth, stating that “he was little or nothing but life,” implying that the moth’s only motive in life was simply to stay alive, and cannot feel much else.]]> 2017-08-13 16:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180835916 Ryan Brue https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180836666 #2- Woolf appears to be stating that death is inevitable and we are all like the moth, with the inner motive to stay alive. She uses the example of the moth to simplify her example. She appears to at first try to help the dying moth but “it came over [her] that the failure and awkwardness were the approach of death.” She moves on to her point stating that “nothing, I knew, had any chance against death,” connecting the parallels between the moth dying and our inevitable deaths.]]> 2017-08-13 16:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180836666 Ryan Brue @ Jadynn Lueb https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180836777 I agree, the author was trying to project the small example of the moth into a big example such as humans, and connect that death happens to every living creature and that nothing can escape it. (By the way, I want to point out that I think you meant “defy the odds” and not “define the odds” I may be wrong though!)]]> 2017-08-13 17:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180836777 Ryan Brue @ Andrew McIntosh https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180837018 I agree very much with this answer, and I’d like to add on that she at first was going to attempt to help the poor moth out, but she decided that the moth was soon beyond help and that “the failure and awkwardness were the approach of death.” This answer is very well written and I didn’t think about how she thought of the moth in the grand scheme of the environment and how insignificant the moth really is until reading this response. Neat!]]> 2017-08-13 17:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180837018 Katelyn Penn https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180844156 #1 - The speaker implies a sympathetic in paragraph two. Woolf wrote, "conscious of a queer feeling of pity for him," which the speaker was feeling towards him while he was roaming the window pane. The speaker saw life through something as little as a moth, and this would be one of the main ideas through the essay. Woolf took something little and of small meaning to most of us and made her own perpesctive of life on it. ]]> 2017-08-13 21:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180844156 Katelyn Penn @ Ryan Brue https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180844540 #1 - I agree with you in the case that the author was getting at that everything dies eventually and that she was relating it to our lives and other creatures lifes. Also, I like how you translated the last sentence of paragraph two. ]]> 2017-08-13 21:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180844540 Katelyn Penn https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180845130 #2 - The main idea of this essay is that death is stronger than life and it always will be. Woolf wrote, " He was little or nothing but life," which to me means that he is just here for a little while and soon he will be gone just like the rest of us. She also stated that, " nothing, I knew, had any chance against death ," which implies her idea that death is stronger than life and also explains how we keep going in our own lives even if we are all going to die anyways. ]]> 2017-08-13 21:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180845130 Katelyn Penn @ Taylor McCaslin https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180845508 #2 - I also agree with your ideas on the main idea and that Woolf wrote about how life is pretty much pointless and how she wrote that no one can really escape death. ]]> 2017-08-13 21:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180845508 My Doan https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180848262 #1 - In paragraph two, Woolf's attitude is poignant and gentle as she describes the fragile life of a moth. Woolf describes that "that was all he could do" after watching the moth fly in the same four corners while there were many more places to be explored. Her attitude continues to be one of pity as she continues to watch the moth struggle with "futile attempts" to continue his dance as she tries to help him. As the essay comes to an end, Woolf's attitude changes to one of realization and reflection as she watched the "gigantic effort" the moth had but into resuming his dance before he eventually died. Watching the moth whom she thought was "insignificant" and "pathetic" be inspired "to retain what no one else valued," Woolf reflects on what the meaning of what life means.]]> 2017-08-13 22:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180848262 My Doan https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180851699 #2 - The main idea that Woolf is depicting in her essay, "The Death of a Moth," is that the lives of both humans and moths can be similar. While humans are not as fragile as moths, there are also limitations to what we can and cannot do. Just as the moth had finished a "seventh attempt" to continue dancing, humans have many instances where we try, try, and try again to accomplish a task; however, in the end, there is still a borderline to what we are able to do and how far we can push ourselves.]]> 2017-08-13 23:44:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180851699 My Doan @ Christian https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180852465 #1 - I like that you saw her attitude to be a cynical one. Woolf feels as if she is superior to the moth for being a human who is capable of so much more than a fragile creature, but later realizes that moths and humans are more similar than she previously believed.]]> 2017-08-13 23:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180852465 My Doan @ Taylor https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180852772 I agree that Woolf thinks life is futile. While the moth's dance was pretty much worthless to anything, it was a goal that the moth wanted to accomplish before coming to it's inevitable death.]]> 2017-08-13 23:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180852772 Sheyla Pigman 19pigmansheyla https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180853080 1. The attitude shown in paragraph two was a more distant out look on life kind of feel. Where one takes a step back and look at life it self and see how big or actually small it is. When the author says "enjoying his meager opportunities to the full", I can't help but notice how the moth is very similar to a human being in that way. Enjoying life o the fullest. If we were to be observed underneath a petri dish by another intelligent species, our ways might seem- well pointless. However; the moth, or more rather life itself is not pointless.
2.The main idea, in my belief, is that life, no matter how small or somehow insignificant, is not a waste. Life surrounds us, makes up every fiber of our being as we take another breath, and continue with our lives. To prove that this in fact is the thesis the author has left small hints of this from one sentence that struck out to me the most, "Yet, because he was so small, and so simple a form of energy that was rolling in at the open window and driving its way through so many narrow and intricate corridors in my own brain and in those of other human beings, there was something marvelous as well as pathetic about him". The author chose these words right after telling us that this Moth was "little to nothing but Life". It almost throws the audience off of the true thesis at work; that the Moth, like a human being, is going through the flow of life, and doing its job. No matter how insignificant it might seem to us, or the Moth.]]> 2017-08-14 00:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180853080 Sheyla Pigman @ My 19pigmansheyla https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180856384 I agree with your number 2 statement, that we are indeed similar to moths when it comes to "try, try, and trying again".]]> 2017-08-14 00:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180856384 Sheyla Pigman @ Katelyn 19pigmansheyla https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180856643 #2- I agree with your idea, that death IS stronger than life. We do have a funny way, when looking at the past and now, of dealing with death. Its a everyday occurrence.]]> 2017-08-14 00:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180856643 Sophia Britto @ My Doan https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180921969 I agree with what you say about the essay showing a human and a moth's similarities. There will always be limitations in life, humans are just lucky enough to have less than a moth has.]]> 2017-08-14 14:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180921969 Sophia Britto @ Taylor McCaslin https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180922525 I agree with your thoughts on what the theme is. Woolf observes the moth long enough to form sympathy and witness its quick death over a relatively short period of time. The same thing happens to all living things, people usually just aren't observant enough to notice or care.]]> 2017-08-14 14:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180922525 Kaitlyn Lard @ Chloe Barham https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180930414 I agree that the thesis is not clearly stated and that it's background focus is rather on the submission of death itself. ]]> 2017-08-14 14:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180930414 Kaitlyn Lard @ Krystian Ayala https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180931203 I agree that wolf got bored and distracted untill he moves again. I think this made her think about life and death and the meaning of what it is to accept both]]> 2017-08-14 14:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180931203 Kaitlyn lard https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180932220 #1- The speakers attitude in paragraph two is rather sympathetic. "and a day moth’s at that, appeared a hard fate, and his zest in enjoying his meagre opportunities to the full, pathetic." She has condolence for the moth that is slowly dying. Throughout this essay Woolf continues to downgrade yet see its potential while calling it "something marvellous as well as pathetic." She then shifts her mood into hope while the moth attempts to flutter around the window pane and then slowly dies off with acceptance and the greeting of death. ]]> 2017-08-14 15:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180932220 Kaitlyn lard https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180937133 #2- The thesis of this essay is not clearly stated but if you look deep enough you start to understand it. At the beginning of this essay she explains that this moth is such a "pity" to watch but then she sees its potential and how death is awaiting it. She doesn't out right make a click in her mind of what life lesson she was about to experience untill the moth started to flutter after she thought he already died. She starts explaining the "attempts" and "dignity" this moth is trying to take in his last moments. Woolf calls the moth "insignificant" and death a great "magnitude" but the moth still had "pure" hope. The last sentence it says "The moth having righted himself now lay most decently and uncomplainingly composed. O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am." This makes me think that the thesis is about ones meaning and dignity in life before he/she passes away. ]]> 2017-08-14 15:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180937133 Mekayla Sisemore https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180956300 #2 Although the main idea is never stated I believe that Woolf is trying to demonstrate that much like the moth some humans do not live freely. As the moth flies back and forth some humans do the same thing all the time, over and over again. with no purpose or freedom. they go back and forth like the moth until they die. They sit and watch other people (rooks) fly around free meanwhile they are trapped "in the window."]]> 2017-08-14 17:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180956300 Mekayla Sisemore @ Ashley https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180957728 I agree that Woolf through the whole essay was comparing human life to the life of a moth. And even showing the difference in how free the other animals are in comparison to the moth. ]]> 2017-08-14 17:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180957728 Mekayla Sisemore @ Sophia https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180958416 I didn't think of observant as a tone but then after reading your response I completely agree with you. ]]> 2017-08-14 17:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180958416 Jess Avila https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180959160 #1 - I feel like the author uses the tone of feeling concentrated and lament for the moth as she observes it going back and forth at the window pane. As she watches the moth she gets a "feeling of pity" for him and sees what it "appears to be a hard fate."  The moth goes from corner to corner who seems to be "nothing but life" and curious. Woolf explains that death may approach and he did what he could do in the "true nature of life." 
#2 - I feel like the main idea of the whole story is life and death. In "Death of a Moth", it describes how the moth tries to escape the window pane before the fate of death appears. Woolf compares the moth to human society. Us being simple can also relate to struggle in our lives and our power of overcoming that obstacle we face. As Woolf observes the moth, she sees that he is struggling to overcome an obstacle of the window and survive. Eventually, the moth would come at a stand still and face death. Humans are just as "frail and nothing but life" when it comes to death. We explore in our thoughts about the idea and struggle within our feelings. ]]> 2017-08-14 17:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180959160 Hannah Brunson https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180959988 #1 The tone in paragraph 2 is a display of pity that is put onto the moth. The moth represents for Woolf as the pure energy of “Life itself”. Once she noticed the significance of the moth she first pities the little thing, it “Flashed upon me that he was in difficulties.” later on in the essay she realizes that she can’t help the little thing “Nothing, I knew, had any chance against death.”

]]> 2017-08-14 17:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180959988 Hannah Brunson https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180960076 #2 Although the thesis in this essay isn’t given i would say it’s quite clear to be seen. Woolf refers to the moth as a symbol of human life. While watching it fly through the window panel, she speculates about the life forces that animates the moth. Later on in the essay the moth “tries to resume his dancing” and lands on the window panel on his back, she saw that death was approaching the little thing and tried to help it “ I stretch out a pencil, meaning to help him to right himself.” As the moth comes to its end her attitude shifts toward respect for the moth for trying to live its life as exuberantly as it can.

]]> 2017-08-14 17:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180960076 Hannah Brunson @Mekayla Sisemore https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180960184 I understand what you mean on how some  people don’t get to live their lives freely as they want to. I find this to be a connection to a part of everyday life, because many people don’t realize it until they hear it.

]]> 2017-08-14 17:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180960184 Hannah Brunson @ Kaitlyn Lard https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180960318 I completely agree that Woolf shows pity toward the moth once it dies, and your idea over what the thesis is really deep. It makes me want to see more people live their life to the fullest, because no-one knows how long it will last.

]]> 2017-08-14 17:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180960318 Andy Hagins https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180964509 #1- The speaker's tone in "The Death Of The Moth" is one of pity. Woolf describes the moth as "pathetic" as the moth flies around from corner to corner across a window pane. As the speaker is watching the "frail and diminutive" moth, the speaker feels "conscious of a queer feeling of pity for him." Later in the story, the speaker feels helpless and expresses a more sincere and sympathetic tone as she observes the moth live its final moments. ]]> 2017-08-14 18:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180964509 Christina Gay https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180967332 #1 - The speakers tone in "The Death of the Moth" is filled with pity. The moth is described as "pathetic" and the speaker realizes throughout this that the moth has a fate much worse than his short life on earth.]]> 2017-08-14 18:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180967332 Jess Avila @ Christian Hurd https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180967405 I also agree with the main idea of exploring life and death. As she observes the moth both life and the fate of death are visible. ]]> 2017-08-14 18:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180967405 Christina Gay https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180968569 #2- Woolf uses a moth as a way to look at life. The theme within "The Death of the Moth" is that one cannot escape death. The "fragile" moth would one day meet face to face with death. There would be no way around it, death comes to take a life and then leaves without a trace. ]]> 2017-08-14 18:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180968569 Art Mendoza @ Taylor McCaslin https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180985469 I agree with the overall tone being "commiserate" throughout the second paragraph. Woolf sees the moth struggling, and describes it as, "What he could do he did." She realized that she couldn't do anything to help, and that is what made her have sympathy toward the moth.]]> 2017-08-14 20:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180985469 Art Mendoza @ Christian Hurd https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180986659 I agree that the main idea was exploring the concept of life and death. "Nothing" has a chance of beating death, and that is a certainty in life.]]> 2017-08-14 21:03:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/180986659 Andy Hagins https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181019289 #2- The main idea in this story is the fact that death defeats life. The moth struggled to survive after flying around. The moth attempted to "resume his dancing, but seemed either so stiff or so awkward that he could only flutter to the bottom of the window-pane." Eventually, the moth "slipped from the wooden ledge and fell, fluttering his wings, on to his back on the window sill. A while later "the body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff." This story ends with Woolf visioning the moth saying, "death is stronger than I am."]]> 2017-08-15 02:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181019289 Drew Norman https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181022334 #1-  Within Woolf’s second paragraph her attitude appears to be sympathetic towards the moth.  She seems to almost feel sorry for the simplicity of its life, especially because she knows it will eventually die.  The moth becomes one of the most important things in her life, even if it is just for a few moments, it entices her attention even professing,” One could not help watching him. One was, indeed, conscious of a queer feeling of pity for him.” She expresses pity for it and it’s insignificance in her and everybody else’s life.  This flows almost perfectly into her overall regretful attitude in the essay.  Her compunction for the moth grows more and more as she realizes that she is the moth she is watching helplessly moving around without a real purpose.  All those feelings of pity she had for the moth before she is now connecting as pity for how insignificant she is.   Woolf finds out that she is moth and regrets not just not figuring it out sooner, but still not doing anything about it once she does.]]> 2017-08-15 02:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181022334 Drew Norman https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181022524 #2- The main theme of “The Death of a Moth” is to find meaning and purpose in life whatever it may be.  The author uses a moth as a metaphor for how frail life is and how easily it can be taken away even writing, “As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder”.  In order to convince the reader to believe her she illustrates her own regrets using the moth as a vicarious example for her hopes.  Meaning can be found in many different places and Woolf does not judge which and how it’s found; however, her fear of death and its suddenness is the main point she wishes to express in her writing.   ]]> 2017-08-15 02:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181022524 Jessica Hammond @ Andrew McIntosh 19hammondjessica https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181022671 I agree on the main idea with you. Death is meant to happen at a certain time, no living thing can out live death.]]> 2017-08-15 02:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181022671 Jessica Hammond @ Sheyla Pigmen 19hammondjessica https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181022966 I agree all the way on how the main idea is that any life is important. I love the textual evidence you used to back up your belief of the main idea]]> 2017-08-15 03:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181022966 Jessica Hammond 19hammondjessica https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181023380 #1-The second paragraph has the attitude of being sorrowful or pitiful. Woolf explains how the moth is, "little or nothing but life" which gives the reader a feeling that the bug isn't really anything important. And how the moth's " meagre opportunities to the full.." is "pathetic." Which means in the shorthand means his opportunities in his life are lacking qualities.
#2- The main idea in "The Death of a Moth" is that nothing can change the course of when death is suppose to happen. The moth tries so hard to get back up and not die, but that's just how life is. Woolf uses the details like, "the extraordinary efforts made by those tiny legs against an oncoming doom.." saying that the moth is trying to avoid death. But it just can't, " The insignificant little creature now knew death.." even though it tried so hard it still dies. Which is why when death is gonna happen, nothing will stop it. ]]> 2017-08-15 03:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181023380 Andy Hagins @ My Doan https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181023919 #2- I agree with your main idea statement. The moth pushed itself to live, but "now knew death." People push themselves to achive a task, but sometimes fail.]]> 2017-08-15 03:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181023919 Andy Hagins @ Drew Norman https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181024406 #1- I agree with the you on how the author feels pity towards the moth. Woolf calls the moth "pathetic" and has a "queer feeling of pity for him."]]> 2017-08-15 03:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181024406 Jess Avila @ Andy https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181026963 I agree with the main idea as well as your evidence that you used to complete the statement. ]]> 2017-08-15 03:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181026963 Drew Norman @ Haley Phelan https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181029433 #2 I agree with your viewpoint on how strange living and dying is.  It is unavoidable, but never reveals its change from one to the other.  The moth is a metaphor for how something strange such as life and death can leave such a big impact on the choices we make.]]> 2017-08-15 04:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181029433 Drew Norman @ Sophia Britto https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181030363 Your take on how the speaker is very watchful and sympathetic towards the moth coincides with my statement of how she becomes enthralled with the creature very well.  Woolf's thoughtful nature helps to paint a clear picture of how she constantly feels about life all while using the moth as a metaphor]]> 2017-08-15 04:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181030363 Krystian Ayala @ Jessica https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181038125 I agree with what you have to say on the matter and you explained it very well, you used textual evidence that helped prove your thoughts on the essay.]]> 2017-08-15 06:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181038125 Lanie Kuykendall @ Andy https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181069828 #1 - I agree that the speaker feels pity for the moth before observing its final moments. The speaker then feels sympathetic, for the moth lives only a short and simple life. ]]> 2017-08-15 11:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181069828 Lanie Kuykendall @ Taylor https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181070749 #2 - I agree that people often take life for granted and do not fulfill their potential. The author relates our lito that of a moths, explaining that death is certain and cannot be surpassed. ]]> 2017-08-15 12:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181070749 David Gensemer https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181116998 #1 - It seems apparent that in paragraph 2 Woolf expresses a pathetic tone. She writes that "only a moth’s part in life, and a day moth’s at
that, appeared a hard fate" further enforcing the  pitiful tone of the 2nd paragraph. The rest of the paragraph; however, reverberates with mystery and marvel. The moth "driv[es] its way through so many narrow and intricate corridors in my own brain and in those of other human
beings"  and returns to pity later when, "as I stretched out a pencil, meaning to help him to right himself, it came
over me that the failure and awkwardness were the approach of death. I laid the pencil down again."
]]> 2017-08-15 16:44:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181116998 Hope wiebe https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181125217 #1- The attitude of the 2nd paragraph is pity. Wolfe sees that the moth can't fly that far and feels sorry for it. She also describes the moth as "pathetic" as he flys around and runs into things.

#2- I believe the thesis of "Death of a Moth" is life is to short. The moth symbolizes life and how it's to short and you can't really take anything for granted 


]]> 2017-08-15 17:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181125217 Hope wiebe @ drew Norman https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181126075  I agree with your main theme. The other does use the moth to show how fragile life's is and how you shouldn't take anything for granted ]]> 2017-08-15 17:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181126075 David Gensemer https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181126508 #2 - Woolf's main idea is simply the depressing thought that death is inevitable. " Nothing, I knew, had any chance against death" nor did it ever, yet still the moth struggles and "after a pause of exhaustion the legs fluttered again."]]> 2017-08-15 17:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181126508 Hope Wiebe @ Jessica https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181126684 I agree with you on the speaker feeling pity for the moth in the 2nd paragraph. The speaker feels bad for the moth because he really has no purpose in life's ]]> 2017-08-15 17:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181126684 David Gensemer @ Drew https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181129983 #2 - While I saw a different viewpoint, I like that you were able to see a less horrific manner in which the same story could be seen.]]> 2017-08-15 17:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181129983 Art Mendoza https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181130404 #1 The tone used in the second paragraph is tenderhearted. Woolf watches the trapped moth suffer a "hard fate" knowing she can not help it. The tone becomes more thoughtful when she can relate to the moth and realizes that death is inevitable and that nothing has a "chance against death."]]> 2017-08-15 17:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181130404 David Gensemer @ Christian https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181131342 #1 - I agree with the later half of your entry but do not think cynical is the right word for the former. perhaps the realization of mortality. (for my lack of better wording)]]> 2017-08-15 18:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181131342 Art Mendoza https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181133840 #2 I think Woolf's main idea was the meaning of living and dying. Living day-to-day life until death traps you. Death is unexpected and any attempt against it is "pathetic." Life and death are as different as night and day, but death is undefeated.]]> 2017-08-15 18:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181133840 Amanda Christopher https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181137445 #1  The speaker in “The Death of the Moth” has a tone of captivation and sympathy, especially  in the second paragraph. She feels a sense of sorriness for the moth as flying back and forth “was all he could do, in spite of” all the things he was ignorant of, all the things in the world much bigger than himself. The speaker is captivated by this ”insignificant creature” because of what she sees within him as she watches the “very thin but pure” amount of “enormous energy” that “had been thrust into his frail and diminutive body.” “The same energy that which inspired” the very things that the moth was oblivious to. She continues to sympathize for and pity the the moth because of “his simple activities” all the way until his ultimate defeat against death itself, all the while being filled “with wonder” at the “extraordinary efforts” made by the moth.


]]> 2017-08-15 18:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181137445 Amanda Christopher https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181140028 #2 The main idea of this essay is to live life to its fullest, even though death will still win in the end. The moth, in “the approach of death,” still fought for life in a “superb last protest.” Before the moth “knew death” it had little in life, yet was “zest[ing] in enjoying his meagre opportunities to the full.” Woolf makes the connection that we should also life life to the fullest, and if that “insignificant little moth” could do that, then we, ourselves, have to excuse not to.


]]> 2017-08-15 18:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181140028 Amanda Christopher@David https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181140554 I agree with your thoughts on the main idea; however, when the moth was fighting against death in its final moments, she was captivated more by its will to live rather than the fact that it could not avoid death. ]]> 2017-08-15 18:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181140554 Amanda Christopher@ Mekayla https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181142451 I think that your viewpoint in Woolf's main idea is very insightful and quite an interesting take on it. I never would have looked at it that way.]]> 2017-08-15 19:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181142451 Krystian Ayala @ Amanda https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181142974 I agree with your viewpoints on living life to the fullest and you provided good evidence to prove to others about your point.]]> 2017-08-15 19:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181142974 Amanda Christopher@Jessica https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181144453 While I agree with the tone of the second paragraph being pitiful, I don't agree with the moth being unimportant. I think that the moth becomes an important symbol to the speaker. ]]> 2017-08-15 19:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181144453 Amanda Christopher@Andy https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181144972 I agree with you on the tone of the essay, especially about her tone towards the end regarding her sympathy towards the moth's death.]]> 2017-08-15 19:24:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181144972 Christina Gay @ Hope https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181151681 I agree with your belief of the thesis being life is to short. The moth is an accurate representation of how life should not be something to take for granted, but used as an opportunity to live it to the best of our abilities.]]> 2017-08-15 20:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181151681 Christina Gay @ Amanda https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181152283 I agree with all of your points on life and the textual evidence you provided furthers you view points. Its a nice way to get the point across.]]> 2017-08-15 20:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181152283 Rendi Hendon @ Jess https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181161659 I agree with your statement about how Woolf compares the moth to human society. ]]> 2017-08-15 21:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181161659 Rendi Hendon @ Christina https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181161990 I agree that Woolf's tone was in some parts filled with pity but mostly she remained detached throughout the moth's death. ]]> 2017-08-15 22:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181161990 Jacob Brue https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181172381 #1 The speaker is sympathetic to the piteous small form of life that is the moth. The moth had no power over its circumstance, “all he could do, in spite of the size of the downs, the width of the sky, the far–off smoke of houses, and the romantic voice, now and then, of a steamer out at sea” was to fly back and forth, trapped. The speaker laments the moth’s circumstance, stating “one was, indeed, conscious of a queer feeling of pity for him.” The speaker is also engrossed in the plight of the moth; she found it “difficult to keep the eyes strictly turned upon the book.” The tone of the piece is the author’s attitude, fascinated and sympathetic.]]> 2017-08-16 00:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181172381 Jacob Brue https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181172500 #2 The struggle for control over one’s situation is a part of all living creatures, especially against the power of death. This is the main idea because the story is about a moth that is struggling to free itself from its position in the window. However, it is powerless to change its fate, and it eventually dies after fighting with all its might. The speaker connects the willpower of the moth to the energy of the other living things around her. As the moth struggles and is about to die, the speaker refers to death as a “mean… antagonist” that could “have submerged... masses of human beings” if it chose. Every living thing will eventually become powerless, and no living thing “[has] any chance against death.”]]> 2017-08-16 00:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181172500 Kyra Birkenfeld https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181180956 #1- The attitude the speaker has towards the topic is majestically indifferent. The speaker expresses the mediocrity of the day moth because “they do not excite” and they are “neither gay like butterflies nor somber like their own species.” The attitude is further expressed when the moth is in “his compartment” and all it can do is fly “vigorously to one corner” then the next corner. The tone becomes majestic when the speaker describes the “dancing and zig-zagging” and the “extraordinary efforts” the moth made in his last moments. The beauty of the dying moth is evident in the small details the speaker includes in the essay.]]> 2017-08-16 01:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181180956 Kyra Birkenfeld https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181181048 #2- The main idea in the essay is the fact that death is inevitable. The thesis is fully revealed in the last paragraphs as the speaker conveys the “futile attempts” for a little more time and the “useless” attempt to help the moth with the pencil. The speaker acknowledges the “unmistakable tokens of death” that the moth displays “on the window ledge in the sun.” The death the moth faces is inescapable and the speaker relates to the moth in realizing that although the difference in lives the end will always be death. The speaker found that “nothing… had any chance against death.”]]> 2017-08-16 01:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181181048 Lanie Kuykendall https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181181284 #1 - Woolf's attitude in paragraph two of "The Death of the Moth" is solicitous towards the moth in the story. The moth "appeared [to have] a hard fate" for he only "flew vigorously to one corner... to the other... and then to a third corner and then to a fourth." Woolf feels concern for the moth and begins to watch it closely. Throughout the essay the speaker's attitude becomes empathetic toward the moth. She compares the life of a moth to that of a human's and emphasizes that life is taken for granted and "no one else valued or desired to keep" it. The moth lives only a short, simple life and is pitied.  

]]> 2017-08-16 01:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181181284 Kyra Birkenfeld @ Amanda https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181181531 #1- I agree with your explanation of the speaker's attitude and tone towards the moth. The speaker seems entrapped in the movements and the short life of the moth as it is openly displayed in his compartment moments before he dies.]]> 2017-08-16 02:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181181531 Jacob Brue @ David https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181181752 #2 While I agree the inevitability of death is a large theme in the essay, I think there is more to the main idea. I believe that the struggle and fight against death, the inevitable defeat, and any the desire of control over ones situation are all import to the essay.]]> 2017-08-16 02:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181181752 Jacob Brue @ Drew https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181182189 #1 I agree that the tone is sympathetic toward the moth. I think Woolf recognized that she was luckier than the moth, that she could control her condition, though she also knew there would come a time when she would be the moth, undable to fight the "antagonist" of death.]]> 2017-08-16 02:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181182189 Lanie Kuykendal https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181182832 #2 - Woolf's main idea is to display the importance of cherishing all forms of life, their attributes, and not taking them for granted. Woolf writes, "the possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various" to display the endless possibilities of daily life. Everyone has a chance to do something "marvelous" in life. This could be accomplished if individuals "saw life [as] a pure bead" and learned to "retain what no one else valued or desired to keep. 

]]> 2017-08-16 02:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181182832 Kyra Birkenfeld @ Jacob https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181183396 I agree with your perspective on the theme of the essay. The theme is embracing more than just the life of the moth in the essay and the speaker relates the theme to the human race as a whole and how everything on earth will eventually face death]]> 2017-08-16 02:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181183396 Kimberly Meraz https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181189912 #1 - The tone of The Death of the Moth in the second paragraph can be seen as curious in a way, when Woolf says, "Watching him, it seemed as if a fibre, very thin but pure, of the enormous energy of the world had been thrust into his frail and diminutive body." Woolf almost seems amazed, and wonderment can be heard in his tone. As the story progresses, the tone turns into pity as the author begins to question the moth's quality of life. As he ponders he begins to sympathize and understand how complex but at the same time simple a moths life can be.
#2 -  The thesis of The Death of a Moth is never stated but many can infer the main idea of the essay to be how a life of a human can model that of a moths. The essay reminds the reader how quickly life can be taken away from us, and how death is inevitable and while we may live long, prosperous lives, it's possible for said lives to be taken away from us as quickly as it did for the moth. It leaves the reader with a motivated attitude, to not let their own life end up like the moths.
]]> 2017-08-16 03:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181189912 Sarah Brown volleyballsjb11 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181190636 The author finds it unfortunate and disheartening that "every fiber" of the moths minuscule body is used for such minute movement across "his square of the window pane." The possibilities of the day seem endless with the "size of the downs and width of the sky" until coming across this pitiful moth that was given a "hard fate." The author's tone morphs from optimistic and admiring the massiveness of the world, to a more pessimistic attitude when spotting the forlorn moth. However as the author continues to watch the window pane, her admiration returns, this time for the moth. The moth's "gigantic effort" was only insignificant to a human, but to the moth his survival was of the utmost importance. The author begins to respect the moths continuos effort against a "power of such magnitude." Despite his exhaustion, his perseverance is noticed by no one, yet his resistance for death pleads on.]]> 2017-08-16 03:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181190636 Sarah Brown volleyballsjb11 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181191166 I believe the author is comparing the minuscule life of a moth to the life of humans; they are one in the same, but on different scales. The moth's existence seems unnecessary to most humans, but when taking a closer look, the moth's battle and want for life is similar to any human fighting for their life. The moth fought for his window pane life even if "no one cared." This negligible perseverance from, "every fibre" of the moth's "frail and diminutive body" arises both pity and admiration from the author.]]> 2017-08-16 03:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181191166 Sarah Brown @ Haley Phelan volleyballsjb11 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181191232 I agree that the author does not have a specific tone throughout the entire passage. She is confused and feels many things and obtains many thoughts about life from a single moth.]]> 2017-08-16 03:36:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181191232 Sarah Brown @ Kapri Bigham volleyballsjb11 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181191509 I agree that the author is stating death will prevail if motivation for life is not there. As the author is watching the moth in the window, she is connecting that every creatures willingness to live comes from not wanting to die. No matter if you are a minuscule moth or a human.]]> 2017-08-16 03:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181191509 Halie Butler https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181193790 #1 the tone in the second paragraph of Death of a Moth can be described as observant, the author is observing the Moths activities and contemplating why it is doing what it is doing, and thinking about what goes through its head. Woolf says, "He flew vigorously to one corner of his compartment, and, after waiting there a second, flew across to the other. What remained for him but to fly to a third corner and then to a fourth?" The author questions why the most of flying back and fourth. Towards the end of the essay the tone changes to one of a questioning and more negative tone, the Woolf starts to question the quality of the moths insignificant and short life. Woolf states, "The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder."
#2 While the thesis isn't stated in the essay the reader can infer it from the passage. Woolf is commenting on how a humans life can be just as fleeting as a mere moths, and sometimes death comes abruptly, so one should live life to the fullest, like the moth " in spite of the size of the downs, the width of the sky, the far–off smoke of houses, and the romantic voice, now and then, of a steamer out at sea. What he could do he did. "]]> 2017-08-16 04:05:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181193790 Emilee Cunningham https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181195831 1-The attitude in the "Death of the Moth", is pity. The speaker pities the moth because all the moth can do is fly around the window pane. In many parts of the essay, the speaker implies feelings of pity for the moth. He quotes that with all of the, "possibility's of pleasure", all the moth was able to do was fly around a window pane. However, the author displays feelings of empathy towards the moth when it dies.  ]]> 2017-08-16 04:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181195831 Emilee Cunningham https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181195987 2- The main idea of "The Death of the Moth", is comparing the life of a moth to the life of a human. Throughout the essay, the author makes several comparisons pertaining to how similar moths are to humans. When the moth fell off of the window sill, he tried repeatedly to arise from the ground but still continued to fall. "After a 7th attempt, he slipped from the wooden ledge and fell." This situation is easily comparable to a humans life in the way that we carry out our daily tasks. Although we occasionally fail, we continue to try again to redeem ourselves like the moth did. 


]]> 2017-08-16 04:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181195987 Emilee Cunningham @ Mekalya Sisemore https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181196097 I completely agree with you on the fact that Woolf uses sympathy in paragraph two. He uses his surroundings around him to convey how the moth is missing out on what the rooks get to do. 

]]> 2017-08-16 04:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181196097 Halie Butler @ Sarah Brown https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181196289 I agree with Sarah that a moths life is over looked as insignificant compared to humans lives but if you look closer one can see a moths battles are just as important to it as any persons battles are. A moths life is just as important just is on a different scale.]]> 2017-08-16 04:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181196289 Emilee Cunningham @ Halie Butler https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181196297 I agree with you on the fact that the tone could be observant. The speaker watches every move the moth makes, and feels pity for it. ]]> 2017-08-16 04:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181196297 Kimberly Meraz https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181196648 #1 - The tone of The Death of the Moth in the second paragraph can be seen as curious in a way, when Woolf says, "Watching him, it seemed as if a fibre, very thin but pure, of the enormous energy of the world had been thrust into his frail and diminutive body." Woolf almost seems amazed, and wonderment can be heard in his tone. As the story progresses, the tone turns into pity as the author begins to question the moth's quality of life. As he ponders he begins to sympathize and understand how complex but at the same time simple a moths life can be.

#2 -  The thesis of The Death of a Moth is never stated but many can infer the main idea of the essay to be how a life of a human can model that of a moths. The essay reminds the reader how quickly life can be taken away from us, and how death is inevitable and while we may live long, prosperous lives, it's possible for said lives to be taken away from us as quickly as it did for the moth. It leaves the reader with a motivated attitude, to not let their own life end up like the moths.]]> 2017-08-16 04:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181196648 Halie Butler @ Jess Avila https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181196945 I agree with Jess that the thesis also is that many people struggle to over come their obstacles and they can seem impossible to over come before the call of death, just as the moth tried to escape and failed.]]> 2017-08-16 04:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181196945 Kimberly Meraz @ Katelyn https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181197031 I think it's interesting how you pointed out that the author took something insignificant and small and made it bring a whole new meaning to the readers because i agree 100%.


]]> 2017-08-16 04:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181197031 Kimberly Meraz @ Lanie https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181197138 I agree that the main idea is to show the reader why they should appreciate all of life, and not just certain aspects of it. The story can be a reminder of not counting your chickens before they have hatched.]]> 2017-08-16 04:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181197138 Logan Pinter https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181785556 #1- In the second paragraph, I would best describe Woolf's tone as a combination of condescending and amazed. She seemed condescending due to the line "... and his zest in enjoying his meagre opportunities to the full, pathetic." This seems to portray a disconnected pity for the moth, a form of pity that doesn't come from sadness, but a feeling of superiority. However, she is also amazed, judging from the line "... It seemed as if a fibre, very thin but pure, of the enormous energy of the world had been thrust into his frail and diminutive body." This portrays a surprise at the sheer energy of the tiny moth. As the essay continues, the feeling of condescending superiority slowly disappears, replaced by an awe at the the creature. Near the end, she speaks of "This gigantic effort on the part of an insignificant little moth..." which shows just how amazed Woolf was at the effort put forth by the moth to attempt to stay alive. At this point, Woolf almost seems humble and reflective, realizing that she will eventually succumb to death as well, despite her superior position.]]> 2017-08-21 00:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181785556 Logan Pinter https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181786785 #2- The main point of Woolf's essay appears to be that all creatures, regardless of how strong they might be, how important they are, will eventually succumb to death. She shows this by saying that the moth was "Little or nothing but life," accenting just how much energy the moth appeared to have. She says that "It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zig-zagging to show us the true nature of life." This demonstrates how, despite its tiny nature, the moth was similar to everything else simply because it had life. However, in the next few paragraphs, she describes the moth slowly dying, losing that energy. She states death could "Have submerged an entire city, not merely a city, but masses of human beings," and demonstrates how futile the moth's efforts are. This futility shows that even larger creatures, like us, cannot resist the eventual pull of eternal slumber.]]> 2017-08-21 00:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181786785 Logan Pinter @Jacob https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181787586 I must agree with everything you said, although I didn't originally consider the struggle for control. What if the essay isn't just speaking about the inevitability of death, but even other things we have no control over? Maybe not only our own deaths, but also the eventual death of everyone else.]]> 2017-08-21 00:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181787586 Logan Pinter @Lanie https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181787840 Well, that's a much more positive idea than most of the responses here. Although I agree with your sentiment, the last paragraph, with its dark message of death's inevitability, doesn't help your point. The main idea you gathered mostly comes from the second paragraph.]]> 2017-08-21 00:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/181787840 Zoie Brown @ Chloe Barham https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/182721624 I love how you brought up her resigned tone! I feel like as the moth gets closer to death, the speaker starts to care more for the moth, which I think fits in with the pitying attitude you mentioned.]]> 2017-08-25 01:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/182721624 Zoie Brown https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/182722114 Woolf's tone in the second paragraph seems to be pitying. She writes that "The possibilities of pleasure
seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth’s part in life, and a day moth’s at
that, appeared a hard fate, and his zest in enjoying his meager opportunities to the full, pathetic," leading the reader to believe that she feels sorry for the moth and its lack of importance.]]> 2017-08-25 01:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/182722114 Zoie Brown https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/182722661 The main point of the essay is how small a role we play in the world. Woolf writes of the moth and his being and "insignificant little creature," which leads me to believe that she wants the reader to see how pointless and unimportant the moth's life is. I believe she is using the moth as a metaphor for human life. It goes about its business, business that seems important to the moth, but it isn't important at all.]]> 2017-08-25 01:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/182722661 Zoie Brown @ Emilee https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/182723173 I absolutely agree with your observation that the moth's attempts on the window sill replicate daily tasks in a human life. I love how you draw comparisons between the moth and humans from something as simple as a window sill.]]> 2017-08-25 01:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/182723173 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/287411092 2018-10-01 01:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/287411092 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/287411114 2018-10-01 01:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/287411114 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/287411130 2018-10-01 01:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/287411130 hey! sivy_rosser https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/346117010 2019-03-28 13:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/346117010 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/351466328 2019-04-14 13:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/351466328 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/381432090 2019-09-09 04:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/381432090 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/752333279 2020-09-16 16:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/752333279 Hola ninos zimmerc0525 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/815586894 2020-10-08 22:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/815586894 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/857972466 2020-10-24 12:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/857972466 https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/857972624 2020-10-24 12:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tfritz2/c77hoqc0f5gd/wish/857972624