https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1 Choose your best annotation to share en-us 2018-09-26 14:56:31 UTC 2018-09-27 15:47:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286071398 "... like sunflowers with heavy heads..." : compares the girls to sunflowers to portray that they are beautiful but cannot reach their full potential]]> 2018-09-26 15:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286071398 msaguon21 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286072427 The girls are being compared sunflowers with heavy heads to represent them being dragged down by their father, that they are losing control of their own actions. Their minds are being dragged down.]]> 2018-09-26 15:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286072427 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286073614 " ... pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads."  their heads is a representation of the torture of the father and how they are dying from him, but the stalks symbolize that that they can handle the torture of the father.]]> 2018-09-26 15:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286073614 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286073623 "to own her like a plot of land" establishes the relationship between the speaker's daughters and her husband. he is controlling and refuses to grant them autonomy]]> 2018-09-26 15:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286073623 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286074442 "I am your mother," expresses the tone and the perspective of the text, and also emphasizes the text by making it a simple sentence. ]]> 2018-09-26 15:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286074442 etlane21 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286104145 The father owning the daughters ¨like a plot of land.¨ Verifies his feelings that he sees them as a tool for his own use rather than a human being to be loved. ]]> 2018-09-26 15:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286104145 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286104469 "... pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads."  illustrates the idea that while the girls are beautiful, their minds have been corrupted by their father but the stalks represent that they are resilient enough to survive and grow. ]]> 2018-09-26 15:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286104469 sisimons21 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286104931 "a stone would fly right through him and strike the child" alludes to the Bible, where it is stated 'ye without sin may throw the first stone', Orleanna cannot judge Nathan without hurting the daughters and setting herself in a place of judgement of the girls]]> 2018-09-26 15:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286104931 klcooner21 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286105458 "like sunflowers with heavy heads"
appears as if her life is lovely and delicate but her father's control over her life weighs her down with anger and sorrow]]> 2018-09-26 15:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286105458 apburns21 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286106883 Reflects that the "laws of man and of nature" are shackles in life, tethering the wife to them against her will.]]> 2018-09-26 15:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286106883 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286128849 The sentence " I am your mother" clarifies that she possesses power and authority.]]> 2018-09-26 16:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286128849 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286133614 "...the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms."
The mother states how she's made to feel worthless to demonstrate how the belittling of women in the bible can make someone feel unimportant.]]> 2018-09-26 16:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286133614 knkair21 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286133837 "Like  sunflowers with heavy heads", this goes to show that through all the improvements upon their identities and talents, they still never do enough to catch the empty attention of their father. They despair, and at the height of their skill sets, they remain without their father's praise.]]> 2018-09-26 16:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286133837 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286137848 Kingsolver uses the phrase ¨dreadful poison¨ to symbolize the father's ideology towards women in the 1950's and the harmful ways, such as neglect, in which he enforces it upon his daughters.]]> 2018-09-26 16:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286137848 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286139333 Kingsolver utilizes the word ¨possesses¨ to illustrate the idea that the daughters grew up with this perspective that their father is superior to their mother.]]> 2018-09-26 16:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286139333 knkair21 https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286142748 "But you can't throw stones" Alluding to the verse, judgement on the person who throws the first stone. According to the bible in John 8:7, you cant throw stones if you are not sinless. Also references the fact that she has no ability to talk back, it only comes back and harms her life.]]> 2018-09-26 16:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtynntolbert/husrx7xzoex1/wish/286142748