THOTS: 180-240

"Clara and Blanca arrived in the city looking like disaster victims. Both had swollen faces, eyes red from crying, and rumpled clothes from the long train ride and Blanca, weaker than her mother although she was taller, younger, and heavier, sighed when she was awake and sobbed while she slept, in an uninterrupted lament that had begun the day of the beating. But Clara had no patience with misfortune, so when they reached the big house on the corner, which was as empty and lugubrious as a mausoleum, she decided that the time had come to bring some joy into their lives."(209)

Context: This excerpt is from the part when Blanca and Clara return to the city from Tres Marias

Connecting Idea: This Passage deals with the mood of tiredness or worn out

1. The first sentence does not incorporate any literary devices, it was only used to set up the scene. This sentence gives the reader a sense of how worn out the two women are from Tres Marias and incorporates the main idea of tiredness and worn out due to the " looking like disaster victims."

2. This sentence primarily uses imagery to convey how tired the women are from Tres Maria. The "Both had swollen faces, eyes red from crying, and rumpled clothes from the long train ride and Blanca, weaker than her mother"shows the intensity of the how tired the women really are. The main idea of how the passage conveys tiredness and worn out is shown through the imagery used in the quotes.

3. This sentence uses personification to make misfortune seem human-like when it is truly just an emotion. After the misfortune at Tres Marias, the mother and daughter are worn out and want to do something more enjoyable. This connected with the main idea at first but changed.

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