I love this quote, but it’s interesting going back and reading the context to discover that the speaker was somewhat wrong in this instance. You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can’t change what’s true. This quote is from the target of that anger to the first rabbit and is preceded by this: “‘Picket,’ he said quietly, ‘stay angry. One rabbit was angry, probably rightfully so, but angry at the wrong rabbit. If you aren’t angry about the wicked things happening in the world all around, then you don’t have a soul. “I regret many things that I’ve done, … but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, ‘You are my master.'” This was from a father speaking to his nearly grown children and is a follow-up to another great quote that I did not, for whatever reason, copy down in my commonplace book. It’s only that, when you’re older, you hand out wisdom to your children like you know everything, but it is sometimes hard to follow your own advice. Here are those five quotes with a brief explanation of their original context. I don’t think this new context perverts their original meaning, but it’s worth noting that it is not the context in which the words were originally written (or read by me). I don’t know about the one-year-old, but the rest of us, from six to forty years old, are thoroughly enjoying it.)įive months later, I went back and re-read those quotes out of the original context and in the context of the current events of 2020 and was impacted again by those words. We’ve started reading it together as a family after I finished it on my own. ( The Green Ember series is a children’s fantasy story about rabbits. Smith’s The Green Ember series and transcribed five quotes from them in my commonplace book. Back in January of this year (2020), I read the first two books of S.D. If something I encounter causes me to pause for whatever reason, I try to record it in that notebook. GradeSaver, 26 January 2019 Web.I keep a commonplace book of sorts where I write quotes from things I’m reading, watching, or listening to. Next Section Literary Elements Previous Section Irony How To Cite in MLA Format Melnyk, Anastasia. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. It is “gentle, bright and blue.” Triumphant sounds come out of the foliage – “singing, squeaking and chirping.” The image of the earth gives an impression of the new and peaceful life. The edge of the sky becomes “gray, then orange, and then crimson, as if fiery.” Then the sky on the horizon becomes “so bright” that it is barely possible to look at it. When Lina, Doon and Poppy climb out of the underground city, they meet their first dawn. Each vault contained “boxes of toothpaste, bottles of cooking oil, soap briquettes and medicines.” There “were even pineapples.” The image of the old Ember gives an impression that people lived happily and had everything they wanted. When the city was built, the warehouses were simply “full of different things.” There was everything whatever your heart desires and in such quantities that the stock seemed never to end. Lina knows that Ember was not always in such a bad situation. “The sky above Ember has always been black.” The image of the city gives an impression of the catastrophe and the end of the world. To some extent, it is terrible to read about “gray houses and gray doors with old paint,” flashing electric lights over the city, “the dying crop in the greenhouses,” or children, who are forced to work in the sewerage system or at the landfill. In the novel, Jeanne DuPrau manages to convey the atmosphere of the dying Ember. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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