Ethan Frome by Hailey Hamilton https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8 Writing Style en-us 2018-04-09 16:43:01 UTC 2018-04-18 16:21:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Passage #1 hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250361688 "The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fire. The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white house-fronts between the elms looked gray against the snow, clumps of bushed made black stains on it, and the basement window of the church sent shafts of yellow light far across the endless undulations(Wharton 21)."
"Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady's new brick store and Lawyer Varmun's house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate. Opposite the Varnum gate, where the road fell away toward the Corbury valley, the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle (Wharton 21)."]]> 2018-04-10 16:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250361688 Observations hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250361764 1. Edith uses fancy vocabulary words like undulations, and peristyle.
2. There are lots of figures of speech in the passages, such as "Orion flashed his cold fire" which is personification.
3. The writing in the passages is very descriptive, for example "the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle". 
4. The point of view is from a narrator that tells Ethan Frome's story, we are reading what he is seeing as he is walking down a street. ]]> 2018-04-10 16:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250361764 Importance hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250361814 Personification is important because it adds a bit of flare to the reading. It mixes things up for the readers and might interest them. Personification also helps to create an image in a person's head of what they are reading. The vocabulary that the author uses is important because it shows that readers of the book have a higher reading score, since they would know what some of the fancy words mean. One thing I have noticed is that the passages of Ethan Frome are very descriptive. This is important to be descriptive so that a reader can visualize what is happening in the mind. Being descriptive can also catch a readers interest instead of making them want to fall asleep. The point of view is who is telling the story. This can be important because readers can read about a characters feelings about a certain thing. They can live through what the character is going through and readers might be able to connect with the character. In this particular story the point of view is from someone we don't know, he is telling Ethan Frome's story how he has seen it.]]> 2018-04-10 16:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250361814 Passage #2 hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250361955 "These alterations of mood were the despair and joy of Ethan Frome. The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches. The fact that he had no right to show his feelings, and thus provoke the expression of hers, made him attach a fantastic importance to every change in her look and tone. Now he thought she understood him, and feared; now he sure was she did not, and despaired. To-night the pressure of accumulating misgivings sent the scale drooping toward despair, and her indifference was the more chilling after the flush of joy into which she had plunged him by dismissing Denis Eady( Wharton 32)."]]> 2018-04-10 16:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250361955 Observations hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362021 1. The tone is joyful and sad. Joyful because he thinks that Mattie likes him, and sad because he can't read her emotions to actually tell what she is thinking.  
2. There is a simile in the the second sentence of the paragraph.
3. The writing is definitely elaborate and long-winded.  
4. The point of view is still from the narrator's point of view on Ethan's feelings for Mattie. ]]> 2018-04-10 16:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362021 Importance hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362074 Tone is very important for a book to have because the reader can pick up on it and understand how the author might have felt when writing the passage. For example, if the characters have experienced a loved one die. The tone is going to be sad not joyful and happy. Simile is a comparison and is important so that readers can understand what is being compared. The fact that the writing is elaborate is good because the reader will really know what is happening. The paragraphs are short with only a couple of sentences which is important because a reader doesn't want to read on huge paragraph that takes up a whole page. The reader will probably fall asleep. The narrator is still unknown and is reflecting on Ethan's feelings about Mattie. This is important for a reader to know because it shows how Ethan is drifting away from his sick wife to someone different. ]]> 2018-04-10 16:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362074 Passage #3 hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362177 "His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano. For this purpose, her equipment, though varied, was inadequate. She could trim a hat, make molasses candy, recite "Curfew shall not ring tonight," and play "The Lost Chord" and a potpourri from "Carmen". When she tried to extend the field of her activities in the direction of stenography and book-keeping her health broke down, and six months on her feet behind a counter of a department store did not tend to restore it. Her nearest relations had been induced to place their savings in her father's hands, and though, after his death, they ungrudging acquitted themselves of the Christian duty of returning good for evil by giving his daughter all the advice at their disposal, they could hardly be expected to supplement it by material aid. But when Zenobia's doctor recommended her looking about for some one to help her with the house-work the clan instantly saw the chance of exacting a compensation from Mattie (Wharton 38)."]]> 2018-04-10 16:26:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362177 Observations hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362237 1. The tone is sad since they are talking about the death of a family member, and how another family member got sick.
2. There is allusion when talking about the things that Zenobia can recite. 
3. Zenobia is introduced as Ethan's wife who is very sick.
4. We learn more about who Mattie is and where she comes from. ]]> 2018-04-10 16:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362237 Importance hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362281 Tone is helpful to know how a character is feeling. In this chapter Mattie was humming and dancing to music from the night before, because of this we know that she is happy which is the tone of that passage. We see what Mattie likes, and Ethan even built her a garden to make her happy. Ethan planted the garden before Mattie came because he knew she would enjoy it. This is an example of foreshadowing. This is important because the character is able to predict what they think is going to happen, without actually knowing what is going to happen. In the first few chapters there isn't a whole lot of dialogue. But the dialogue that is there is definitely formal speaking. They address each other by name, and greet each other using Hello or Hi. This is important because so many people today use slang or don't greet someone at all. People aren't called by their actual name, they are addressed by a nickname or something. ]]> 2018-04-10 16:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362281 Passage #4 hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362327 "As soon as his wife had driven off Ethan took his coat and cap from the peg. Mattie was washing up the dishes, humming one of the dance tunes of the night before. He said "So long, Matt," and she awnsered gaily "So long, Ethan"; and that was all (Wharton 43)."
"It was warm and bright in the kitchen. The sun slanted through the south window on the girl's moving figure, on the cat dozing in a chair, and on the geraniums brought in from the door-way, where Ethan had planted them in the summer to "make a garden" for Mattie. He would have liked to linger on, watching her tidy up and then settle down to her sewing; but he wanted still more to get the hauling done and be back at the farm before night (Wharton 43)."]]> 2018-04-10 16:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362327 Observations hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362390 1. The tone is joyful in the fact that Mattie was humming and happy.
2. The point of view is Ethan's, he is telling us how he sees Mattie, what she likes, and what he does to make her happy. 
3. There is an example of foreshadowing, where Ethan made a garden for Mattie to have.
4. There are only fragments of dialogue, but the dialogue that is in the book is in a formal type of speaking. 
]]> 2018-04-10 16:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362390 Importance hamilhai https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362459 Tone is really important. It helps the reader to understand how the author might have felt when writing it or that the author has experience with a type of situation. When talking about someone you loved dying and another one getting sick, the tone is probably pessimistic and sad. In this passage we learn some of the backstory on the character Zenobia, Ethan's wife. It is important to know how Zenobia was, what happened to her, and how she evolved into who she is now. The reader needs to know this because she is the wife of one of the main characters. They also need to know that Ethan has been drifting away from his wife, he doesn't have the same feelings for her that he once had. Another character that is given a backstory is Mattie. We learn how she became a nanny for Ethan and Zeena, and why she had nowhere else to go. This is important for a reader to know because Ethan starts to have feelings for Mattie in the first few chapters.]]> 2018-04-10 16:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hamilhai/hd3w7s6trj8/wish/250362459