The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates by Amanda Vidal https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh Amanda's shortened pallet describing her book en-us 2022-05-13 03:16:54 UTC 2024-04-03 17:30:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30a.png Simile av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182277967 "And I was suddenly aware of the cold, of the wind swinging like a sword" (120).]]> 2022-05-13 03:20:25 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182277967 "Nice isn't it?" "But all of it starts with what's right here in this pipe" (17).-Thena av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182279618 What this sentence reads is that the character is showing the depth in which she feels about this place. It has a special meaning to her. ]]> 2022-05-13 03:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182279618 Aha moment av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182290027 "When they reached the train track, I watched as she was at last rescued by a passing gentlemen who extended his hand to Maynard and then quickly, sizing up the shape of things, rushed her away" (51).  
In was in this it shows Hiram's true feelings about Maynard or at least a hint towards his feelings to her ]]> 2022-05-13 03:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182290027 Characterization av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182294946 "And across his aged, creased face there was a look of gravity and concern" (69).
Hiram is describing his fathers face in a moment of him in their home.]]> 2022-05-13 03:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182294946 Turpentine (Noun) av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182297939 "I took a lantern into the supply cupboard, and rummaged until I found a can of wax, a jar of turpentine" (81).

Turpentines are semifluid substances consisting of resins dissolved in a volatile oil. ]]> 2022-05-13 03:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182297939 Characterization av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182299907 "As he smiled, a gesture that had the effect of underscoring the crisp, bony architecture of his face" (81).
 Here Hiram is describing his dads face. ]]> 2022-05-13 03:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182299907 Underscoring (Noun) av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182300959 "At that he smiled, a gesture that had the effect of underscoring the crisp, bony architecture of his face" (81).

to emphasize (something) or show the importance of (something).]]> 2022-05-13 03:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182300959 Rummaged (Noun) av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182301750 "I knew because Maynard routinely rummaged though it and liked to detail his findings" (81).

search unsystematically and untidily through a mass or receptacle. 


]]> 2022-05-13 03:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182301750 Bemused (Adjective) av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182303428 "She said, and the look became almost bemused" (114).

puzzled, confused, or bewildered.]]> 2022-05-13 03:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182303428 Conflict av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182310121 "You're going to regret this all one day" She said "You are going to regret it more than any evil that came along with that girl, and evil will come to you, I assure you. But this moment here when you speak to those who loved you when you was most frail. you gonna regret" (131). Those were one of the last words Thena said to Hiram before she left. Hiram was mad about the way she was speaking to him she took it as disrespect. ]]> 2022-05-13 03:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182310121 Henpecked (Adjective) av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182311966 "And Maynard was no longer smiling for he felt himself henpecked" (51)

continually criticized and given orders by one's wife or female partner (typically used of a man).]]> 2022-05-13 03:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182311966 "Time lost all meaning. Minutes could not be discerned from hours, and neither sun nor moon day and night became fictions" (138).-Hiram's av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182318716 This symbolizes Hiram's view on his life of his current moment of ecstasy realizing one of life's greatest gifts nature. ]]> 2022-05-13 04:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182318716 Imagery av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182321128 "I saw a slice of light cut its way through the ceiling of my dungeon." (139).   Hiram is saying what he is seeing in his journey of nature."]]> 2022-05-13 04:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182321128 Imagery av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182326144 "I ran too with one last look behind me towards the fallen man, a dark heap against the greater enveloping darkness that gathered behind me" (144). An avalanche happened and Hiram had to run away from a man who saved him in a ditch. ]]> 2022-05-13 04:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182326144 Hyperbole av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182327330 'The drum in my chest boomed louder" (145).
His heart was racing when he out ran the darkness who chased him. ]]> 2022-05-13 04:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182327330 Imagery av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182330746 "I tried to crawl. then I stood. I took one step. It was agony. I fell. And again I felt myself slipping under. I looked up onw last time and saw one of the men standing over me" (149). Hiram is trying to run away from his kidnappers.]]> 2022-05-13 04:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2182330746 Again and again av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183080560 “Can you imagine hating your own mother , Hiram?” (55)

Said his moms friend he is mad whenever he thinks of his moms past actions ]]> 2022-05-13 15:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183080560 “We never got to a point of seeing things cleared we’re very young. It’s odd to say it as such I know. Ain’t even a year since I was captured. But there was something there, something we were nursing that I do believe would have bloomed into a family. But maybe not. Maybe I imagined it all” (224).-Hiram av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183086346 Here Hiram is explains his life matters. In this part of the book is his realizing his deeper self and is becoming way more mature with his troubles. He use to be consumed with hate and confusion now just calmness with sadness. ]]> 2022-05-13 15:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183086346 “Man made us slave, but god willed us free” (227).-Raymond. av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183092836 Man made a society that had in trapped us in our life’s but god has a will for us to live the life’s we wanted. ]]> 2022-05-13 15:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183092836 “Bland had more delicate option” (236).- Raymond av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183096668 Raymond was conversation with Hiram and his family about blands choice on how to approach their family issues. ]]> 2022-05-13 15:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183096668 Words of wiser av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183098235 “What we do is not idle exercise, nor Christian, not Christian improvement. First you learn what they know in general and then you learn them in the specific their words in their hand on the men’s especially knowledge and you shall on the measure of the man that you might fashion the costume Hiram and you make it yours to fit" (167).

Hiram's mom friend is exposing what they are doing for him is not Christian exercise as in the life they’re living not in truth and that it’s okay because they are doing it for the greater of their life.” ]]> 2022-05-13 15:53:41 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183098235 Memory moment av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183098365 “It was the necessary right of the low who held no property in man to hold momentarily property and dose who ran into vent all their awful passions upon them" (120).

What they are talking about in this story is whenever Hiram’s  kidnappers kept him he was in a very depressive state when he wrote this. ]]> 2022-05-13 15:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183098365 Conflict av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183110259 Yes indeed a homecoming is calling me back to my peoples I know I am waiting to hear and torment for I am holy dressed in the worst of sin” (129). Here another kidnapped person is telling Gorman is despair and he is saying the won’t get to go back home. ]]> 2022-05-13 16:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183110259 Characterization av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183114559 “Her hair was alive and inflamed Ryland met her at the fence she clawed his eyes she caught his ear  and her teeth yelled with pain” (135).

I’m this part of the book a kidnapped women was beaten taken from her family and thought she was being rescued she was mistaken and fighting a man that kidnapped her. ]]> 2022-05-13 16:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183114559 Words if the wiser av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183119245 “ you ran taking another with you surely by now you have guessed that we have intelligence greater than your own I will tell you anything but you must do the same for me”  (152).

After being  rescued  from his kidnappers the people who found Hiram want knowledge of what he she through.]]> 2022-05-13 16:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2183119245 av244917 https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2185844296 2022-05-16 14:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/av244917/zrwn0j9d5nvbqzlh/wish/2185844296