“The Locket,” was a beautiful written piece that was easy to understand and phenomenal to read. "The Locket", utilizes antithetical imagery and setting to represent different outlooks on life and to demonstrate that love transcends at any circumstance. When the story ended, one will want to read more and more because of how unpredictable and suspenseful it was.
In the story of “the Locket,” one of the feelings a reader might have while reading the ending is sadness. The reader would feel sad because Octavie thought she lost her lover in the war. She was also dress in black as if she was a nun. “Octavie wore a plain black dress, severe in its simplicity…she had discarded her hoopskirt and appeared not unlike a nun.” Another feeling a reader would get is a sense of relaxation because the setting was happy, joyful, and the way the auther wrote it …show more content…
"she saw familiar faces and heard voices as if they came from far across the fields, and Edmond was holding her. I thought of course I had lost it in the heat of the struggle, but it was stolen." Not many people would just assume that he magically appeared and that he was the one holding her. Some would say that the setting gave it away because of peacefulness."The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction." Also people may say that the priest gave away the ending because he was foreshadowing. "Do you not think that on a day like this, miracles might happen? When the whole earth is vibrant with life, does it not seem to you, Octavie, that heaven might for once relent and give us back our dead?" Personaly, nothing gave away the ending because no one knew he was foreshadowing until the very end. Therefore, it made it unpredicable to know that something was going to
In the story of “the Locket,” one of the feelings a reader might have while reading the ending is sadness. The reader would feel sad because Octavie thought she lost her lover in the war. She was also dress in black as if she was a nun. “Octavie wore a plain black dress, severe in its simplicity…she had discarded her hoopskirt and appeared not unlike a nun.” Another feeling a reader would get is a sense of relaxation because the setting was happy, joyful, and the way the auther wrote it …show more content…
"she saw familiar faces and heard voices as if they came from far across the fields, and Edmond was holding her. I thought of course I had lost it in the heat of the struggle, but it was stolen." Not many people would just assume that he magically appeared and that he was the one holding her. Some would say that the setting gave it away because of peacefulness."The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction." Also people may say that the priest gave away the ending because he was foreshadowing. "Do you not think that on a day like this, miracles might happen? When the whole earth is vibrant with life, does it not seem to you, Octavie, that heaven might for once relent and give us back our dead?" Personaly, nothing gave away the ending because no one knew he was foreshadowing until the very end. Therefore, it made it unpredicable to know that something was going to