- Choose a quotation from this chapter that is related to the dream of a character dying and explain the connection.
Read the excerpt "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson from the online textbook. It is in the "American Romanticism" section.
Post something for the vocabulary from "Self-Reliance"
Chap7 Quote:
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"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
This quote is related to dying in dreams because it says how they are going to die in the car during the "twilight" which may be insinuative of dreams and the night.
Chapter 7 Quote:
ReplyDelete"Don't be morbid," Jordan said. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
Jordan describes what happens after death. Explaining that everyone gets a whole new life after another.
The “death car,” as the newspapers called it, didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend.
ReplyDeleteThis quote is describing the car that caused Myrtle's death