Virginia Woolf is illustrating her life through the experience of a moth on her windowsill. As she sits and watches the moth, she identifies with it. She understands both the vibrant life it had and the sad death it died. Woolf is trying to give the reader an insight into her own emotions and feelings. She uses such descriptive writing that you can almost picture a moth on your own windowsill. But personally, I found how, in addition to her writing about what's happening inside of the window, she also describes what's happening outside. She isn't focused completely on the moth, she elaborates on what is going on around the moth and what might be affecting its life. So as a writer, when looking at a specific text, we can't just look at one aspect of the text, we have to look at it as a whole, including everything that affects it. The way Woolf describes the moth's movement inside the window in comparison to life outside the window is what stands out to me the most.
Mallie Easterlin
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ReplyDeleteI believe this post is well written response to the story “Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf except it failed to specifically point of the significances or the whys in her experience and how if there was more than one significance. The details, about the descriptive writing inside the window and outside the window, were a good observation about how writers should look at topics as a whole leaving out no details. This really shows what readers and writers can and will take away from this story, “Death of the Moth”. I feel as though this reader had a good understand and good insight into the story in this post.
I agree with Sarah! What great insight Mallie. I love how you read the comparison to the outside world. It is such an important point in the text. Thanks for point it out, and great job. -teachy teach
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