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Annotating The Devil and Tom Walker

Annotating The Devil and Tom Walker. Establishing purpose. Incantation chants. p242. Where? Boston, Descriptive words thickly wooded, scattered immense oaks History/Legend Buried treasue , devil always presides ?facility. p243. Natural event Earthquakes—shook many tall sinners

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Annotating The Devil and Tom Walker

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  1. Annotating The Devil and Tom Walker Establishing purpose

  2. Incantation • chants

  3. p242 • Where? • Boston, • Descriptive words • thickly wooded, scattered immense oaks • History/Legend • Buried treasue, devil always presides • ?facility

  4. p243 • Natural event • Earthquakes—shook many tall sinners • Characters—tom/wife • Both meager and miserly (?) wife even hen’s eggs she grabbed. Tom pried her secret hoards. many and fierce were the conflicts. • House/horse house forlorn (?) straggling trees, no smoke in chimney. Horse was miserable. Petition deliverence?

  5. p243 • House’s name is bad---why? • Wife a tall termagant (?) fierce temper, loud tongue, strong arm. • Tom’s face showed signs of beating (!) • made the bachelors passing by rejoice in their celibacy 

  6. P243 • Short cut: “ill-chosen” why? • Muddy black smothering mud, dark stagnant (?) pools. Slippery, full of trunks and stones, dangerous. • How might this describe all shortcuts in life?

  7. p244 • Arrives at “firm ground” describe or list some descriptors (feel free to draw) • An old indianforthold a thickly wooded, scattered immense oaks lready overgrown

  8. p244 • Stories about “resting place” • Indian wars, incantations (?) • What does he find? What might this indicate? • That something bad happened happened here.

  9. p244 • “Let that s____l alone!!!!” • Describe the being that says this.

  10. p245 • Describe Deacon Peabody as he appears in this passage

  11. p245 • How does this being spend time to amuse himself---at what events does he like to be present?

  12. p. 246

  13. 246 • What happened to Crowinshield? • Note point of view 3rd person omniscient • Tom’s thought • Wife’s thoughts

  14. P247 • Mrs. Walkers thoughts and feelings

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