Poe is famous for his use of descriptive language. Make a list of at least five words that you reacted to from what you have read so far. Write the word and write a brief description of the feeling or idea the
word inspired in you.

Solitude: it provides me with a feeling of melancholy and sadness. The key-word solitude, if it is used, seeks to pass through some discomfort, and leave behind the narrative along with a sorry, anguished environment.

Disquieting: It provides me with a feeling of discomfort and the uprising. Most commonly used to produce the reader literally restless as well as uncomfortable.

Finish: It provides me the impression that there is something being complete and that there is going to be no return, it is over.

Focused: It does give me the sensation of concentration, thought processes, management, as well as interpretation.

Death: I additionally feel a certain sense of suffering and melancholy. As a supplement, it refreshes the sensation of something you have completed, during this period, eternity.

moon-letters were a method of writing invented by the dwarves. moon-letters were ordinary runes, but written in such a way that they could only be read when the light of the moon shone behind the writing. some moon-letters could be read by any moonlight, but it was possible to make the writing even more secret. more sophisticated moon-letters could only be read by the light of the same shape of moon, or at the same time of year, as when they were written. hope this !

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”