Flower Garden,
This
is a story about how a new women named Ms. MacLane and her son Davey coming to
live in a new town and have to adjust to life in the different society. It is
written in the 3rd person in the point of view of Ms. MacLane’s
neighbor Mrs. Winning.
In
my post I am going to write about two topics for the book. One is foreshadowing
and the other is person-against-society. In the book it foreshadows a lot, like
Mrs. Winning’s name. I think that this is a piece of ironic foreshadowing
because her name implies that she will be the happier person in the story, but
she is jealous and thinks ill of others by stereotyping. In the story she
starts to be nice and happy but by the end she is resentful of her neighbor Ms.
MacLane. In the story all of the people in the town go about their predictable
day-by-day lives, they don’t change, and do what is expects of them.
This reminds me of what is the
stereotype for the Amish. People believe that they might not be as excepting
because they maintain what people thought a long time ago. Ms. MacLane starts
off like them, the same, but in the story she starts to change and starts to
break away from what they think that their perfect lives are. This causes the
other people in the town to get mad with her and start to think that she isn’t
as good as they are.
This brings up my final topic
person-against-society. Near the end of the story the other people in the town
including her supposed friend Mrs. Winning. She starts by defending her and by
trying to make the other towns people except her but they convince her that Ms.
MacLane is the one who is making their town worse and not that they are doing
that themselves. The book ends with Ms. MacLane considering going back to her
old life and Mrs. Winning “with great dignity, walked back up the hill toward
the old Winning house.”
Mason, I really liked your post. You had a few grammatical errors (women should be woman, etc.), but overall, great job!
ReplyDeleteI think that you really took time and used a lot of creativity in your post. You really went text-to-world by relating it to the Amish. All in all a good job.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great post! You were really creative and you portrayed a lot of effort. I really appreciate this piece. Thank you for using two literary elements!
ReplyDeleteIt seemed like you thought a lot about what you were writing, its very good! Good job explaining the use of literary elements in the story!
ReplyDeleteGreat Job Mason. I liked how you picked two topics instead of one. Way to raise the bar!
ReplyDeleteMason, you did a good job summarizing the text and making a text-to-world connection. You have a lot of good ideas. Now, you need to pay attention to mechanics and grammar.
ReplyDelete4/5 points. You have an incorrect form of a word in the sentence, "This is a story about how a new women named Ms. MacLane and her son Davey coming to live in a new town and have to adjust to life in the different society." In this sentence, you make a similar mistake:"In the story all of the people in the town go about their predictable day-by-day lives, they don’t change, and do what is expects of them." In this sentence, you also use an incorrect word choice. "People believe that they might not be as excepting because they maintain what people thought a long time ago." The word should be "accepting". Finally, you also have an incomplete sentence. You wrote, "Near the end of the story the other people in the town including her supposed friend Mrs. Winning." Please reread your entries and check for mechanical errors.