“The Feather Pillow†by Horacio Quiroga

Directions: Before reading "Feather Pillows" by Horacio Quiroga, please use the dictionary and the Internet to find the definitions of the following terms. Write a complete definition in the provided space

10. The atmosphere is an emotion, emotion, or feeling that the author tells the reader through the setting and explanation of the object. What kind of atmosphere do you expect when this story holds on these words? Explain by 3 to 4 sentences

Directions: Please answer the following questions about "Feather Pillows" by Horacio Quiroga. Please refer to the text and use your "Lit Terms Dictionary" to help you learn literary terminology. I will use the full sentence in the answer and repeat the question to get full credit.

4. What is the cause of Alicia's death? Do you have any facts that are premised at the beginning of the story? Explain your idea

The tone of the story is the attitude towards the author's attitude or choice. What is the first sentence of this story?

7. The setting of the story is the time and place where the action takes place. Emotion is an emotional atmosphere created by the author. Please explain the background and atmosphere of the story

The climax is the turning point or the highest point of the story. It is usually the most exciting part of excitement and action. What is the climax of this story?

Gothic literature features horror, suspense, mystery. They often include heroes, villains, monsters or supernatural creatures, eerie landscapes, not a very happy ending. Is "Grow Down Pillow" a Gothic story? Explain your answer

Horacio Quiroga thinks that all words and actions in a short story should have a unified emotional effect, like Edgar Allan Poe. What do you think Quiroga is trying to achieve with a down pillow? Which aspects of his style do you show that he is trying to achieve this effect? Do you think he achieved this effect? why?

Horacio Quiroga 's life affected his literary work in several ways. His death experience with his family and his affection for Edgar Allan Poe's dark lighting style, as discussed in "Down Pillows" and "Beyond", the development of his story on the theme of life and death I forced him. Interestingly, the relationship of the hero of "feather pillow" is that Quiroga's relationship with his first wife, where marriage is for lover, and It is similar to. Words are toxic. He often uses his wife as a source of inspiration for his story, such as "past love" and "history of troubled love"

Horacio Quiroga's "feather pillow" shows a balance between life and death by suggesting that a person can not exist in front of others. Kiroga announced this theme through marriage with Alicia, her spiritual and psychological curiosity was gradually destroyed by her marriage. The parasit depicts the physical appearance of her mental and spiritual collapse, thereby eliminating the rest of the bride's physical life and balancing her inner death. The fifth digit is often regarded as a symbol of balance because its position is associated with other numbers. Within the 'feather pillow', Alicia 's life has disappeared from her "five nights and five nights", which meant that her death process helped her balance. In this sense, the fifth use as a symbol of balance reveals the instability between the inner emptiness of the bride and the appearance, then the parasite balances her already dead spirit, It only means destroying Alicia in the meaning.