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- Mr. Dalton
- Mr. Dalton is an instructor in the Upper School at Beaufort Academy. He is inept at car repair and home or lawn maintanance of any sort, but is an accomplished philosopher. In his spare time he enjoys throwing darts while listening to old Duran Duran cassettes.
4. I discovered what was wrong with Randel when he says it in the fifth group of questions/answers, while the others did not build suspense in making me think he would die, but it caught be off guard because the repition did not make me anticipate it would change so quickly at the end like that.
ReplyDelete5. Yes, because he shouldn't have been going out with her because it made his mother worried sick and it ended up making him sick, litterally. Also other details that were left out is how old he his, how old his lover is, what's his profession, is hunting his profession or a recreation, why does he command his mother to always make him bed, and so much more.
6. They make it so the goodwoman doesn't have to bar the door at first, for she is doing something, and they make it so when the two thieves come they have to stay there to eat them, so the story can show how the husband and wife are willing to not say anything to the thieves just so they don't have to bar the door.
7. It shows how far the couple will go to stand their ground for something so trivial as barring the door and to prove how much stronger their will is over the other's, even in the face of danger and maybe even death from two random men in their house.
4.) Only when the mother suggests that her son has been poisoned, did I realize what was wrong with Lord Randal. My suspense, sadly, was not increased because I failed to realize that something was even wrong with Lord Randal.
ReplyDelete5.) I do not think that the young Man’s lover poisoned him because he seems more heartbroken. I think she broke up with him. He doesn’t exude sickness qualities, he just wants to lie down and sleep. He is probably sad, because he is acting careless; he doesn’t want to eat, just sleep. He refers to her as his true lover, so this also could be him still loving her. We go unanswered WHY this happened, will he die, will he be okay?
6.) The puddings in this poem are what the wife is making. The wife and husband both feel the wind and want the door to be barred, but no one wants to do it. The wife uses the excuse of her making pudding. If she wasn’t making pudding, she could bar the door. Those puddings better be good.
7.) When the two strangers threat to hurt the man and kiss his wife, this is the violence. When the man then breaks the pact and speaks out first against the two men’s action, this is the irony. And the wife still holds him to the pact in the face of violence! << That’s the humor.
4. This poem appears to be leisurely small talk between the mother and son until the fourth stanza, when the element of death is brought into the poem. This changes the mood of the poem considerably, because this is when the reader realizes that the son has been poisoned.
ReplyDelete5. Yes, probably because he rudely commanded her to do things for him like he does his mother. Other questions left unresolved are whether the son will die, and how the mother will react.
6. The men who come into the house eat the pudding, and their conversation about the pudding prompts the husband to speak.
7. When the men in the house, threaten the husband, he finally speaks, as anyone would. The humor is that his wife cares more about their bet than her husband's wellbeing.
4. The weariness due to hunting immeadiately made me suspicious of the condition of Lord Randall. Ultimately, the fourth stanza regarding the dead bloodhounds began the insight into the reasoning of his fatigue. His hunting weariness and fallen dogs link together to form an impression of wrongdoing. The incremental repetition increases suspense as the reader is already conscious of the general format of the poem, with an additon of a new element each time. Therefore suspense is gained as that new element is anticipated.
ReplyDelete5. I believe the young man's lover has poisoned him because that is the last person whom he has had contact with. It seems as though he is explaining who gave him his dinner and what it was when questioned by his mother. Additional questions left unanswered could include the background regarding his lover and the ultimate fate of Lord Randall.
6. The puddings are an important factor in the ballad because it occupies the goodwife from barring the door. It also allows the theives to feast and interact with the couple.
7. The possibility of violence is shown as theives enter the house and pose a threat to the husband, while the humor is the focus of the ballad still remains on the underlying bet between the goodman and goodwife.
4. "What became of your bloodhounds, Lord Randall, my son?/ What became of your bloodhounds, my handsome young man?" The incremental repition enhances the reader's suspicion because in the 2 stanzas occurring beforehand concern his dinner and then abruptly changes to the missing bloodhounds.
ReplyDelete5. I don't believe there really was a lover in the poem, and if there was, she did not poison him. Throughout the poem, until the conclusion, Lord Randall makes up excuses to his mother and I believe dining with his lover was one of them. The question whether he actually died was never answered; he could've been a sarcastic son who was aggravated with his invasive mother.
6. The men's desire to eat the pudding and a their masculine opposition kept them from doing what the wife asked...?
7. The fact that the two gentlemen, at first, were lazy with glutonous desire to enjoy the pudding and refusing to get up and bar the door, then secondly, threatening each other with it was somewhat of ironic humor. Lust turned into anger.
-note to readers --> I may be completely off base.
i just got home from a swim meet and i dont have my book but i will turn it in to youlater during the day. just wanted you to know that i did not forget
ReplyDelete4. Around the 4th verse do you discover something is truely wrong. The repitition up until then helps to establish an expectation for answers, and drives the reader on to find out the whole truth, creating a progressive sense of suspense.
ReplyDelete5. I believe that, Lord Randal's lover may have actually left him, so, in grief, he poisioned himself. Other questions left out are his ultimate fate (although it is implied), and who exactly his lover is.
6. They had intended to use a pudding as shaving cream when they were to shave the mans beard, and, since this infuriated him to some degree, made him speak, causing him to lose the challenge between him and his wife.
7. They intended to close the door, only after intruders had breached their home, and ultimately, because they were so stubborn between themselves as to ignore their own safety.
4. In the third stanza, when Lord Randall says that he has eaten some eels, I got suspicious and then the rest of the poem confirmed my suspicion. He wants to lay down every time and the fact that the quests keep being asked throws out the guess that he’s just tired from hunting. The repetition of the questions keeps me guessing as to why he wants to lay down.
ReplyDelete5. I do not think his lover has poisoned him. I think that it was unfortunate that his dogs died and that he made the poor selection of choosing eels to eat, but I do not think that his lover poisoned him; he just ate a poisonous animal. If his lover died that would explain if she poisoned him or not because she wouldn’t poison herself.
6. The wife makes pudding in the beginning. Two men come to their house and eat their white pudding then their black pudding. Then these two gentlemen plot to soften the husband’s beard with the pudding broth and cut it off.
7. Two men have basically intruded on this couple. The husband, in disbelief, asks these two if men if they really plan to kiss his wife and scald him with pudding broth. His first outburst to these men’s plans just happens to be the first word said between him and his wife. Because of their agreement, he now has to bar the door except it’s just a little too late. Intruders have already come in and eaten his food.