Chapter 1
1. What types of imagery are used to introduce the puritan townsfolk in "The Prison Door"? What is the effect of this imagery and how does the narrator further this portrayal in "The Market Place"?
- When the puritan townsfolk are introduced the narrator says how they are dressed in sad-color garments, this shows that it is dark and gloomy and the prison door is said to be old and a heavy oak which shows how their would be nothing coming in or out of the doors. This whole scene is gloomy and dark, which does not show happiness but the opposite, darkness and sadness. This is carried thought to "The Market Place" with the same idea of how it is dark and gloomy and the people still wearing dull colors. The narrator also says how this was used for hanging people and the gallows could be seen in the background which would add to the eradesants of the scene.
2. What is the significance (symbolic, thematic, or otherwise) of the rosebush outside the prison door?
-The rose-bush is a sigh of the earth being kind to you before you go and rote in a cell for the rest of your life. It also shows how people are too. For example every person has two sides: a mean side and a good side. Well the rose-bush is the same way, on one side you have a beautiful flower and on the other side you have this thorns that will hurt you if you were to touch one.
- When the puritan townsfolk are introduced the narrator says how they are dressed in sad-color garments, this shows that it is dark and gloomy and the prison door is said to be old and a heavy oak which shows how their would be nothing coming in or out of the doors. This whole scene is gloomy and dark, which does not show happiness but the opposite, darkness and sadness. This is carried thought to "The Market Place" with the same idea of how it is dark and gloomy and the people still wearing dull colors. The narrator also says how this was used for hanging people and the gallows could be seen in the background which would add to the eradesants of the scene.
2. What is the significance (symbolic, thematic, or otherwise) of the rosebush outside the prison door?
-The rose-bush is a sigh of the earth being kind to you before you go and rote in a cell for the rest of your life. It also shows how people are too. For example every person has two sides: a mean side and a good side. Well the rose-bush is the same way, on one side you have a beautiful flower and on the other side you have this thorns that will hurt you if you were to touch one.