https://padlet.com/zeidlben/ml11z4e6b5b1 CP English/O! Pioneers By Willa Cather en-us 2018-04-26 13:36:04 UTC 2026-02-12 14:25:23 UTC hello@padlet.com zeidlben https://padlet.com/zeidlben/ml11z4e6b5b1/wish/255637452 "Oh, worse Much worse," moaned Mrs. Bergson. "Drouth, chincebugs, hail, everything! My garden all cut to pieces like sauerkraut. No grapes on the creek, no nothing. The people all lived just like coyotes." Oscar got up and tramped out of the kitchen. Lou followed him. They felt that Alexandra had taken an unfair advantage in turning their mother loose on them.

Observations
1.) Cather uses two similes in this passage to compare the garden to sauerkraut and people to coyotes
2.) The passage starts by saying much worse, and then the author goes on in depth to explain how it is bad
3.) The author sets a mood with this passage
4.) This passage lets the reader know what is really going on inside the characters' heads.

Importance
1.) The use of similes in this passage helps the reader understand how bad things are and lets us picture it. Every story has similes, but I thought these were very unique.
2.) This passage sets a bad tone with this passage. Without the in depth description, this would just be a bland passage. With it, it becomes a sad and depressing passage where you can really picture the misery.
3.) Mood is everything for a lot of the chapters in this book. This passage really adds to the mood of the chapter
4.) Alongside the depressing state of things in the story, we really get an insight into the negativity going on inside their heads.]]> 2018-04-26 13:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/zeidlben/ml11z4e6b5b1/wish/255637452 zeidlben https://padlet.com/zeidlben/ml11z4e6b5b1/wish/255637693 She had never known before how much the country meant to her. The chirping of the insects down in the long grass had been like the sweetest music. She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun. Under the long shaggy ridges, she felt the future stirring.

Observations
1.) This passage creates a ton of imagery
2.) At the end, there is a little attention grabber
3.) Use of personification and simile
4.) Sets mood

Importance
1.) This passage is loaded with imagery. Almost every sentence is talking about the  environment around her and it really paints a picture in the reader's mind
2.) This passage is at the end of a chapter. The last phrase "she felt the future stirring", could set up the next chapter and makes the reader want to continue
3.) The simile comparing the chirping of insects to the sweetest music is made. The personification of a heart hiding somewhere is used. These pieces of literature add a nice touch to the passage that all writing needs
4.) Like the first passage, this one sets a mood. This passage is all about peace and beauty. Along with the future sentence, it furthers the mood taken away from the end of this chapter]]> 2018-04-26 13:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/zeidlben/ml11z4e6b5b1/wish/255637693 zeidlben https://padlet.com/zeidlben/ml11z4e6b5b1/wish/255637749 Marie often ran in to see her nearest neighbor, old Mrs. Hiller, who was crippled with rheumatism and had only her son, the lame shoemaker, to take care of her; and she went to the French Church, whatever the weather. She was a sincerely devout girl. She prayed for herself and for Frank, and for Emil, among the temptations of that gay, corrupt old city.

Observations
1.) The author really gets in depth about a less significant character
2.) The author uses a ton of adjectives to describe characters, settings, etc
3.) It seems that through out the book it just sets a depressing mood
4.) The author seems to want the reader to view the setting as a dump or something

Importance
1.) Even though Mrs. Hiller is not a main character, the author still goes in depth about her. In my opinion this is pretty neat. 
2.) Throughout the whole book, and especially in this passage, Willa Cather uses a ton of words to describe characters, setting, and other things within the book. For example, the lame shoemaker, the corrupt old city, devout girl. 
3.) It seems in almost every chapter or almost every page of this book there's some phrase that just makes you look at something as if it is so bad. "that gay, corrupt old city." Everything just seems so negative.
4.) This point is very similar to #3. Many of the settings in this book are described as old, run down towns, or just boring, bland, hostile places. This book puts a damper on my day.]]> 2018-04-26 13:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/zeidlben/ml11z4e6b5b1/wish/255637749 zeidlben https://padlet.com/zeidlben/ml11z4e6b5b1/wish/255637779 He knew that he had murdered somebody, that a woman was bleeding and moaning in the orchard, but he had not realized before that it was his wife. The gate stared him in the face. He threw his hands over his head. Which way to turn? He lifted his tormented face and looked at the sky. "Holy Mother of God, not to suffer! She was a good girl-not to suffer!" 
Frank had been wont to see himself in dramatic situations; but now, when he stood by the windmill, in the bright space between the barn and the house, facing his own black doorway, he did not see himself at all. He stood like the hare when the dogs are approaching from all sides. And he ran like a hare, back and forth about that moonlit space, before he could make up his mind to go into the dark stable for a horse (Cather 140-141).

Observations
1.) Lots of similes comparing Frank to a hare
2.) Lots of describing of setting in this passage
3.) Return of more depressing things in this book
4.) Lots of conflict within a character's own mind

Importance
1.) Cather uses a ton of similes in this book. Multiple times using the "hare" simile
2.) Cather also goes in depth about the setting to add to the story. The dark barn and such.
3.) The author sticks to the depressing theme
4.) In this passage we see the conflict in Frank's head. This is cool because he just shot his wife and we can see him at his weakest point.

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