https://padlet.com/27784/c8owgjxdgzie en-us 2019-01-03 15:30:14 UTC 2019-01-08 02:15:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Hotsun.png 27784 https://padlet.com/27784/c8owgjxdgzie/wish/317245570 “'Trample not on the grass, Bogota; that is not allowed.'
Nunez had scarcely heard the sound he made himself. He
stopped amazed...'What is blind?' asked the blind man carelessly over his shoulder" (paragraphs 79-90).]]> 2019-01-03 15:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/27784/c8owgjxdgzie/wish/317245570 27784 https://padlet.com/27784/c8owgjxdgzie/wish/317246726 In "The Country of The Blind," the author, H. G. Wells, uses many different types of literary devices and figurative language.
Here are some examples:

1.) Simile: "'Must you be led like a child? Cannot you hear the path as you walk?'" (paragraph 83).
---The author uses a simile here to compare the way Nunez was walking on the grass as to something a child would do. I also think the simile shows some background about life in the Country of the Blind because it is explaining that when the people of the blind are young children, they need to be led by the adults before they can walk around by themselves. This is interesting because while it is used in a simile its kind of ironic because where Nunez is from, children don't have to be led around like that. 

2.) Polysyndeton: "...they
made much of music and singing, and there was love among them,
and little children" (paragraph 93). 
---The author uses polysyndeton here to emphasize how these people were living a happy and almost normal life despite them all being completely blind. ]]> 2019-01-03 15:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/27784/c8owgjxdgzie/wish/317246726 27784 https://padlet.com/27784/c8owgjxdgzie/wish/317247940 During this part of the story, Nunez is called upon by one of the men of the Country of the Blind to talk to him. While Nunez is on his way over, the man hears him walking on the grass, which he is not supposed to do. Nunez was surprised that the blind man was able to notice that he was. The man questions him asking if he cannot hear the path because he was being so careless as to walk on the grass, but Nunez responds saying that he can "see" it. The man is very confused and says there is no such thing. Nunez then tells him that he is blind and the man, again, does not know what he is talking about. The quote shows that the blind man was able to see things in a different way that Nunez was blind to and things that Nunez could see, the blind man could not. This shows that there are so many different kinds of blindness and ways to see things.  ]]> 2019-01-03 15:42:02 UTC https://padlet.com/27784/c8owgjxdgzie/wish/317247940 https://padlet.com/27784/c8owgjxdgzie/wish/317416800 A mountaineer named Nunez falls into a hidden valley after an accident with his tent. This valley is the rumored Country of the Blind. Everyone living there is blind, and has been ever since people started settling there. Nunez immediately believes he is superior to them, but they believe he is inferior, so they take him in as a worker. No one there believes his "sight" abilities, and he gets fed up with them and tries to fight them. He is cornered and runs out of the valley. With absolutely no food for days, he returns to the valley and claims that he has changed and he doesn't believe in his sight anymore. He falls in love with a girl there, but in order to marry her, he must have his eyes, and therefore his sight, removed by the doctor. He accepts, but on the night before the procedure is supposed to take place, he leaves the valley. He realizes the power of his sight, and never returns to the valley.]]> 2019-01-04 13:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/27784/c8owgjxdgzie/wish/317416800