Ethan Frome Sentence combining

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Ethan Frome Sentence combining

• The sentences on each slide need to be combined
  into one sentence.

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• Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome
• In Ethan Frome, the color red represents love.
• The color red is found in Matties scarf, the
  ribbon in her hair, and the pickle dish.

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• The only two colors in the novel and red and
  shades of white.
• Wintriness dominates the landscape.
• The splashes of red are in direct contrast to
  what is normal in the book.

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• The unvarying winter parallels Ethans unvarying
  life.
• The brief flashes of red parallel the flashes of
  love that come into Mattie life.
• She herself wears two out of the three instances
  of red.

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• When the color red is present, Ethans existence
  is energized.
• The color red brings life to Ethans otherwise
  dead life.
• Ethans every day life, dominated by winter, is
  dead compared to his life when the color red is
  present.

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• The pickle dish is the only red item that isnt a
  possession of Matties.
• The pickle dish also gets broken.
• Ethans love and therefore the liveliness in
  existence, breaks as well.

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• The pickle dish belonged to Zeena.
• The hindrance to Mattie and Ethans love was also
  Zeena.

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• The pickle dish was the first red item to break.
• The breaking of the dish foreshadowed the ruin of
  Ethan and Matties love.
• Once all the red things were gone, Ethans life
  returned to the deathlike state of winter.

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Combine

• Perhaps the pickle dish was the potential love of
  Zeena and Ethan.
• The dish irreparably broke.
• There was no more hope for their love.