QCQ 10

Quote: “Have you ever heard a crowd go apeshit”

Comment: This phrase has multiple different meanings to it. What I find interesting is that no matter who you ask what this might mean you will always receive a different answer depending on one’s culture, beliefs, etc. 

Question: Will Jay-Z and Beyoncé make another infamous video like this one? Will any other infamous entertainers hop on this idea?

QCQ 9

Quote: “So what if the boss was black? This was a new life, and she wanted to learn everything”

Comment: While reading this story I never was able to figure out who/what was narrating the story so I found this quote interesting. It also made me think about the time period/setting of the story, making me assume it was some time in the 1900s. This also made me think about the critical race theory and how the object can’t be the subject. So why can’t a black man be a boss/someone you work under?

Question: Will it ever be possible to achieve a society where race/culture don’t matter?

QCQ 8

Quote: “Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will…”

Comment: After receiving the news of her husband’s “death” Louise is filled with a mix of emotions. She begins to feel some sort of emotion that she does not know how to deal with, however she attempts to fight this feeling despite her weakness to emotion. 

Question: Was Louise truly sad for her husband, or was she fighting this idea that she did not want to feel grief, but in the end was subject to it. Was she fighting grief, or was she fighting joy?

QCQ #3

Quote: “I was lifted up and given one lily of the valley to put in Arthur’s hand.” 

Comment(s): While reading I began to notice multiple different references to the color white. The “lily of the valley”(white flower), the “white, frozen lake, the marble-topped table.”, “he was all white, like a doll…”. Perhaps all these references to the color white were made to create more of a winter setting for the poem. Or, maybe the color has some sort of symbolism to represent something occurring in the poem.

Question(s): The references to the color white made me wonder exactly why they were put into the poem. At first I thought it was for the setting, but now I wonder if it was implemented to symbolize the royalty of the family; seeing that the color white is often represented in royalty. Could it be referring to death also?

QCQ #2

Quote: “Here on the left hand there stands a shop window filled with photographs of the celebrities and beauties of the day”. (pg. 8)

Comment: Holmes was very eager to come and view the shop, but there is no indication as to why he so badly wants to see what is there. My thoughts are that because Lady Eva was a debutante, this could show that she is a celebrity and it is possible she is the one in the photo/”beauties of the day”. 

Question: Is Sherlock eager to view the photos in the window because he knows it is Lady Eva? Or, does he know that it is someone else, like the maid. Overall, who is this mysterious lady in the photo?