3.07 Surprise The Boarded Window

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1. Which story did you read?

I read "The Boarded Window" by Ambrose Bierce.

2. Describe the physical setting of the story. Which words or descriptions contribute to

the emotional setting or mood? What is the mood that results from the writer'south use

of description?

This story is set in Ohio, 1820. The narrator describes the woods equally "immense" and

"unbroken", which gives the reader a positive connotation of the forest. The cabin in the

wood on the other hand is described as mysterious, for it merely had i door alongside an

odd boarded window. The mood that is created from the author's employ of clarification is a

mysterious and suspenseful mood.

three. What is the theme? How practise the final lines of the story influence the significant or

theme of the story?

The theme is this story is dealing with death. In the concluding lines of the story, Murlock's "dead"

married woman was attacked past a panther, but it had seemed that she bankrupt costless from the ties on her

wrist and had bitten off the panther's ear. This surprise catastrophe showed that Murlock had

mistakenly prepared his assumingly dead wife for a burying when in reality, she was however in a

coma. This ways that Murlock unknowingly contributed to her truthful death.

iv. What techniques does the author use to create a surprise ending?

In "The Boarded Window", Ambrose Bierce uses flashback and foreshadowing to create a

surprise ending and a suspenseful story.

v. Were you surprised by the twist? If so, why? If not, what should the author have

done to make the ending more than surprising and effective?

Yes, I was surprised past the twist. It didn't fifty-fifty cantankerous my mind that Murlock'south married woman could still

be alive.

6. What was your experience in reading this story? Did it evoke fearfulness or physically take

an outcome on you? Why or why not?

I was very intrigued while reading this story. What intrigued me the most is that the author's

granddaddy knew the one-time man that had lived in the motel. Personally, this story didn't evoke

fear, it just made me interested and wanting to know more.

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