Melli Snowfall

Juno was known as the Roman goddess of marriage and childbirth. Hera, the wife of Zeus, was also worshipped for the same things, but she is the Greek version. Juno presides over every aspect of a woman’s life. She looks after and protects the women of Rome (Juno, 1). “She gives us the energy to fight for the elements we want and deserve in a relationship in order to preserve and enrich the home environment (Juno: The Queen of Heaven, 2).”

Do you ever wonder how insanity comes about through the brain? Paul is the main character in the story “Silent Snow, Secret Snow”. Snow is what paul struggles with throughout the story. It represents the sanity that he has. Whether it is a large or small amount the snow is constantly there. He goes through the story accepting the snow but his parents do not. He then locks himself in his room and just let’s the snow take over him. `In the story “Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” the snow represents the clarity of Paul going insane as the snow is not truly there, the snow clouds his thoughts, and it speaks to him.

We had not gone a rod when we found ourselves in a heap, in a heavy drift of snow. We took hold of each others’ hands, pulled ourselves out, got into the road, and the cold north wind blew us down the road a half mile south, where the Strelow boys and John Conrad had to go west a mile or more. When they reached a bridge in a ravine, the little fellows sheltered a while under the bridge, a wooden culvert, but Robert, the oldest, insisted that they push on thru the blinding storm for their homes. In the darkness they stumbled in, and by degrees their parents thawed them out, bathed their frozen hands, noses, ears and cheeks, while the boys cried in pain. “My brothers and I could not walk thru the deep snow in the road, so we took down the rows of corn stalks to keep from losing ourselves ’till we reached our pasture fence. Walter was too short to wade the deep snow in the field, so Henry and I dragged him over the top. For nearly a mile we followed the fence ’till we reached the corral and pens. In the howling storm, we could hear the pigs squeal as they were freezing in the mud and snow. Sister Ida had opened the gate and let the cows in from the field to the sheds, just as the cold wind struck and froze her skirts stiff around her like hoops. The barn and stables were drifted over when we reached there. The roaring wind and stifling snow blinded us so that we had to feel thru the yard to the door of our house. “The lamp was lighted. Mother was walking the floor, wringing her hands and calling for her boys. Pa was shaking the ice and snow from his coat and boots. He had gone out to meet us but was forced back by the storm. We stayed in the house all that night. It was so cold that many people froze.” Although most of the information that was collected or the stories that were told were in South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota the temperatures took

The chill of winter air had nudged her from her slumber. Gazing through the window upon the dreary horizon, the blur of gray told Hulga that rain was nearing. Nervously, she backed into the corner away from the window and curled up next to a pile of hay and settled in. Soon after repositioning herself, Hulga heard the consistent patter of rain on the roof of the barn. Her eyes watered as she wondered if her mother had been frantically searching for her.

b. The snow symbolizes Ann’s depression. Cold is obviously associated with snow, which is how Ann feels about the cold. In reference to the text, Ann says “Wad something along the window sills to keep out the drafts. Then I’ll feel brighter. It’s the cold that depressed.” The depression is resulted from Ann’s isolation and she is always trying to fix it. A lot of the times in the story the snowy cold drafts creep through the window sill and makes Ann feel even more depressed.

“Trees towered upwards with bending boughs holding the weight of the freshly fallen snow. A blanket of snow hid away all traces of animal life although you could hear the krawing of a murder of crows. Their hidden presence was foreboding to all men who passed through the forest. It was a signal of another starved beast returning to the earth. Even the most frivolous found the endless winter to be a burden.

As winter continues, Haskell examines the newly fallen snow during the early moments of sunrise. While most people find beauty in the large blanket of snow that

Throughout the book, there is a significant connection with winter and the main character, Lia. Winter in the book is a symbol of how she is broken and physically sick from her disorder anorexia. When Lia goes to the same motel her best friend, Cassie died in, she struggles to become stable with her disorder and considers extreme choices that affect her later in the book. Lia says,“If I really want to die, right now….I could walk into the blizzard and lie down in the snow and bleed out. Hypothermia and blood loss is like going to sleep”(265). Lia is going through an ongoing battle with herself that makes her view on life careless. Anderson uses specific words like “hypothermia”, “blizzard” and “snow” to emphasize the symbolism of winter in the main character’s life throughout the book. The snow being frozen and penetrating explains one of the symptoms of anorexia, which is feeling cold. In addition to this, Lia’s mentions of topics relating to winter is her way of expressing how she is in a frozen state of being dead and alive, all from her disorder. However, at the end of the book, Lia has overcome this past, saying, “I am thawing”(Anderson, 278). This implies how the past of Lia’s ongoing battle with anorexia has made her discover who she was a person at the end of the book. This also expressed how winter is the symbol of how she has struggled with

January Thaw describes the close of winter through a few signs: the melting of the snow, the wake-up of the hibernating skunk, the grieving of the mouse over his flooded tunnels, bundles of rabbit hair and their newfound “freedom from want and fear”.

The composer continues to describe the Winter, again using descriptive language to create a cold harsh environment, and allow the reader to sympathise for the duckling. With the life-threatening act of being ‘frozen fast in the ice’, comes the only act of real kindness that is present in the story as a farmer rescues

Concerning, the different stories we had read in the past two weeks. I have considered to compare in contrast Yolanda and Andrea from the stories with the title of “Snow” and “Doe season”. As I go over the those two stories “Snow” and “Doe season”, I reflect that both characters, Andrea and Yolanda were innocent from their environment, which causes them to learn something about themselves.

The Winter is the opposite of summer, during the winter not only does the winter change but the town's appearance. The houses that once looked artificial were exposed and looked abandoned. “Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie...The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops...they are so much more uglier then when their angles were softened by vines and

4. What happened to the family in “The First Snowfall” is they had lost one of their dear children. The family thought how the big blizzard was wrecking the great tomb in which their child was buried. In the poem “The First Snowfall,” the family began to wonder “I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn where a little headstone stood how the flakes were folding it gently” (17-19). They began to become emotional as the snow was falling and the tomb just laid there in the freezing cold and brought up the poor daughter and the sadness of her death. The family lost one of their daughters and the snow made them remember the awful loss and the tomb being buried.

After that experience, Autumn came or rather a very cold Autumn came which involved snow. However the snow most likely melted when Mrs. Maudie’s house was engulfed in flames. However, she did not seem upset but very optimistic. This was sadly not the only bad news

All my life I just wanted to be normal, I mean I didn’t ask to be the daughter of a god, or being specific, Demeter. Honestly whether I liked it or not I was made the half-goddess of Autumn. Meaning its my job to control the weather during that time, more like controlling my mother's grief because of my sister Persephone. See for the