The Water Dancer by Mason Conley https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2022-04-20 15:16:22 UTC 2022-05-18 14:27:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f300.png Bereavement (noun) sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2153737772 Pg 87

The action or condition of being bereaved. 

(Bereaved- deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.)]]> 2022-04-22 15:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2153737772 Gossamer (noun) sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2153738324 Pg. 90

Used to transfer to something very light, thin, and insubstantial or delicate. ]]> 2022-04-22 15:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2153738324 The author describes Hiram as intelligent, observant, and indecisive, stubborn. mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2162833234 2022-04-28 15:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2162833234 The author describes Maynard as a dumb, clumsy , mean , inconsiderate, controlling. mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2162836358 2022-04-28 15:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2162836358 The author describes Sophia as fiercely independent and is easily attached to any man that gives her attention. mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2162847627 2022-04-28 15:29:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2162847627 jc237681 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2166904853 The author describes Rose as a very beautiful and lovely dancer with a overall extraordinary personality ]]> 2022-05-02 15:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2166904853 Weaned jc237681 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2166915977 accustomed to food other than its mother's milk 
Pg 98]]> 2022-05-02 15:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2166915977 Wistful jc237681 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2166933572 Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing
Pg 98]]> 2022-05-02 15:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2166933572 Tough Question:Where is mother and how is she doing? mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170101186 2022-05-04 15:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170101186 The author describes Ryland as abusive, mean, and crazy. He makes the slaves play his game. nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170104202 2022-05-04 15:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170104202 The author describes Corrine as two faced because after Hiram rejected her, she became mean and abusive towards him. nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170107145 2022-05-04 15:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170107145 Aha moment: The stories of his great grandmother was true; she did transport all those people to freedom.He has the same vision to do the same. mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170109188 2022-05-04 15:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170109188 Aha moment:He was suddenly sold away for money to a plantation. He later figured out that Corinne and Hawkins sold him away to test his powers to see if he truly had them and how powerful they actually were. mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170112072 2022-05-04 15:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170112072 Personification sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170117793 Pg. 55

"... put his hands in your tobacco hillocks, feel for the heartbeat of the earth..."]]> 2022-05-04 15:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170117793 Words of the Wiser: Thena tries to give Hiram life advice and tell him what he should do instead. mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170118439 2022-05-04 15:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170118439 Flashback (noun) nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170122032 Pg. 66
"But from the here and now, peering back into another time."]]> 2022-05-04 15:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170122032 Words of the wiser sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170323128 Pg. 253

Hiram was separate from the group and so was Harriet. During this time she pulled him aside to talk to him. She talks to him about how important roots are and how other's words arent always accurate. ]]> 2022-05-04 17:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2170323128 Again and again sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2172857023 Ch. 30 Pg. 356 

Conduction is repeated all throughout the page. Earlier in the book, it is mentioned and repeated three times. In many situations, while using his powers, Hiram is trying to figure out the meaning of conduction. The word is always said with emphasis. I believe it has a strong connection to his ancestors and their powers. ]]> 2022-05-06 13:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2172857023 sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2172867316 "And only then did I understand that I did not really remember everything, but there were things beyond my mother that I had chosen to forget- not pictures, but the feelings behind them." (Hiram pg. 355)

Throughout the book Hiram has struggled with remembering his mother. He later discovers his memory is the key to his powers so he struggles with the memories hes missing. This quote is when he understands more on why he forgot.]]> 2022-05-06 13:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2172867316 sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2172880099 "For the first time I understood conduction, understood it as a relay of feelings, assembled from the moment so striking that they become real as stone and steel..." 
(Hiram pg 356)

Throughout the book he is trying to discover the meaning of conduction and he finally does. ]]> 2022-05-06 13:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2172880099 Allusion sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2175892723 Ch. 21 Pg. 255

"And as for names...I answer to one- Harriet"


]]> 2022-05-09 15:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2175892723 Hyperbole sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2175904329 Ch 21 Pg. 255

"Moses talk to the wolves. Moses brought the clouds to earth"]]> 2022-05-09 15:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2175904329 Firmament (noun) sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2175925723 Pg 279

The heaven or the sky, especially when regarded as a tangible thing.


]]> 2022-05-09 15:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2175925723 sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2177565950 "When I regained myself, I knew the wave, which was only subsiding, was the force of a memory. The memory of my mother" (Hiram pg. 387)

From the beginning of the book Hiram has been trying to remember his mother. He finds her locket, puts it on, and gets a ripple of memory. This is the moment he fully remembers her. ]]> 2022-05-10 13:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2177565950 The author describes Thena as a standoffish old women. Once Hiram gets close with her she is described as stubborn and tough loving but it is clear she cares she is just scared. sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2177580014 2022-05-10 13:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2177580014 Tough Question nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2177639066 Ch.1

Hiram falls into the river Lockless and he struggles with remembering his mother. He recalls the time when his mom was first sold. Even though Hiram has a great memory he can't remember how his mom looked or how she acted.]]> 2022-05-10 13:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2177639066 The author describes Howell as stern and very powerful throughout Lockless jc237681 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2177806250 2022-05-10 15:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2177806250 mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2177807758 Pg.241]]> 2022-05-10 15:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2177807758 "Better than before I understood the whole dimensions of this crime, the entirety of the theft , The small moments , the tenderness , the quarrels and corrections , all stolen , so the men such as my father might live as gods"-Hiram Pg.325 mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180549316 The men took advantage of the unprivileged (slaves) to get what they wanted. They stripped their lives for personal gain and didn't care about the consequences.]]> 2022-05-12 04:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180549316 " But now all the human warmth of the early years I drained from the place and the warrens were revealed for what they had always been... A dungeon beneath the castle ." Pg.328 mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180553428 Once Hiram came back he saw the truth about Lockless that he had been avoiding. The lack of warmth and the people he loved showed the true colors of the place he once called home. ]]> 2022-05-12 04:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180553428 sardonically- in a way that is characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mockingly. pg.340 mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180558707 2022-05-12 04:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180558707 "Oh dear dark mother. The screams. The voices. The water. You were lost me, lost and there is nothing I can do to save you."pg.345 mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180580048 2022-05-12 04:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180580048 Ancestral Belonging to , inherited from , or denoting an ancestor or ancestors. Pg .129 mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180581627 2022-05-12 04:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180581627 begrudge-The possession or enjoyment of something. mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180585956 2022-05-12 04:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2180585956 Contrast and Contradictions nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181237397 Ch.5

Maynard's father was deeply saddened as his son that so much reminded him about his dead wife has died. He explains that In Maynard's final moments he probably sacrificed himself to save Hiram. Hiram found it confusing because Maynard will have never done something like that. Maynard was completely selfish and was the opposite of what his father describes as what went down in the river Goose. ]]> 2022-05-12 13:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181237397 Purgatory (Noun) nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181243641 Ch.5

A place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven.]]> 2022-05-12 13:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181243641 Perverse (Adjective) nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181258993 Ch.6

showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences.]]> 2022-05-12 13:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181258993 nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181271064 "Don't dare talk," she said. "You may think yourself out of the Goose, but the Goos ain't out of you." Pg.67


Here Sophia is saying that Hiram was able to survive the river Goose but what happened in it will haunt him for a long time.
 ]]> 2022-05-12 13:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181271064 nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181289582 "Stay away, I say!" she yelled. "Stay away! How dare you bring me back like this. Stay as far from me as you can, Hiram Walker! You are done to me!" Pg 384


After telling Thena that he was able to find her long lost daughter she gets emotional. Her past deeply ways on her and gets upset with him. She feels betrayed.]]> 2022-05-12 13:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181289582 Imagery nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181354075 Ch.5 

"And I saw the blue light part the sky and reach down for me."]]> 2022-05-12 14:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181354075 The author describes Moses as powerful and impactful but also humble in what she does. sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181368527 2022-05-12 14:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181368527 jc237681 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181385600 "I know a child ain't only a joyful thing. I seen it. But so often I have seen women who would not wish a child upon themselves, Still and all, forming their whole life around it. Ans I see you have  her before she been came. You wold run for her. You would kill for her. I see how you look at the girl now, and I remember. I remember what you told me. pg 351

Hiram is dwelling on the fact that it's his fault for killing Maynard and now that he loves Sophia he feels that he should give everything for her so nothing happens on him again.


]]> 2022-05-12 14:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181385600 nl191403 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181391091 2022-05-12 14:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181391091 Simile sk219904 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181392778 "Memory can fold the land like cloth"]]> 2022-05-12 14:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181392778 jc237681 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181405453 "And there is pain in that. Ain't clean. It's muck. I have told other men the same, even though I must now struggle to take my own medicine. I want you to know what I have seen, the men I have known since I have gone. The men who have had to decide what they love more, the everything, lovely and mean, right in front of them, or their own wrath and regard. And I choose the muck of this world Sophia. I choose the everything" pg 352

It is important because Hiram is being vulnerable with Sophia because he's showing his true intentions to Sophia


]]> 2022-05-12 14:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181405453 Memory Moment: jc237681 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181433984 I had always avoided that bridge, for it was stained with the remembrance of the mothers, uncles, and cousins gone Natchezway. But knowing the awesome power of memory, how it can open a blue door form one world to another, how it can move us from mountains to meadows. pg 1]]> 2022-05-12 15:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181433984 Metaphor jc237681 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181438651 "My Mother appeared only as fog and smoke"]]> 2022-05-12 15:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181438651 Metaphor jc237681 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181440870 "We really ain't nothing but jewelry to them."]]> 2022-05-12 15:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181440870 Personification-"I was close enough to see shadow of the bonfire dancing off her face." mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181444558 2022-05-12 15:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181444558 Imagery-"A home of our own away from , a life beyond the Task." ( Hiram once he saw the blue mist from his magical powers he calls "Conduction") mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181454572 2022-05-12 15:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181454572 Memory Moment jc237681 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181464597 The road beneath the wheels disappeared, and the whole of the bridge fell away, and for a moment I felt myself floating on, or maybe in the blue light. And it was warm there, and I remember that brief warmth because just as suddenly as I floated out, I was in the water, under the water, and even as I tell you this now, I feel myself back there again, in the icy bite of that river Goose, the water rushing into me, and that particular burning agony that comes only to the drowing.]]> 2022-05-12 15:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181464597 Nathaniel Walker- Very stern and powerful. He is also mean and not a well human being. mc187813 https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181466667 2022-05-12 15:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mc187813/ji9fhtzh0qlgfdwt/wish/2181466667