Answers from pgs 88-94

Pg. 89
1.) What I imagine when I read the first line is a man and a woman after they just got into a fight and they are about to break up. The man wants one last kiss before they leave and never see each other again. The speaker's tone is of accepting and realizing that it would be best for them to break up.
2.) In lines 2-4 the speaker seemed to be sure of his decision about breaking up and the words "Cleanly and free" suggest the tone of assurance and that this is his definite decision and what he really wants to do.
3.) The author repeats often to let the reader know how he feels about the whole situation. He says that there should be no love remaining because he feels that it is better for the both of them if they went their seperate ways. On the other hand he could be repeating it to try to convince himself that this really is the right decision.
4.)I would feel as if the whole relationship was not even worth it , like he never really did love me anyways. After that line I would agree right then to end the relationship.
5.) The last six lines makes the relationship seem like there was love at one time but now it is gone. Presenting "love" as a dying person seems like the love is ending like a life is ending. The love was suffering and now it was time to end.
6.) I beleive that the"you" in this poem is the person who he once was in love with and now is falling out of love with. The clues in the poem lead me to believe that the "you" character drove the author away by doing something to him.
7.) I think that he wrote this poem to get over her and it also shows me that maybe she was the one who oringnally wanted to end the relationship.

Pgs 93-94
1.)The first two paragraphs lead me to believe that the hammock is a place where a girl and her dog go. It seems to be a place where she takes the dog and the dog would get scared and startled by what is around him. She makes it known that at this place she is more the protector then the dog. him. I could see my self in this situation but i might not be so comfortable if I had to be the protector and my dog was not able to protect me.
2.)Yes paragraphs 3-6 alter the mood made by the first two paragraphs because the tone went from going to a nice place to literally a zoo which changes the mood and creates more of an uproar and changes the characters mood.
3.) The line "Her hands lift to cover her breast" makes me think about her trying to protect herself. When someone lifts and puts their hands on their chest it is usually a reaction that they are either shocked at somthing or scared of whats going to happen. I was thinking that her hands were across her breast as a reaction to being shocked or scared.
4.) The paragraphs talk about how much she loved her bear stuffed animal but her mother threw it out. One reason why she might have wanted to kill the bear would be because she could never have her stuffed animal.She wanted to kill the bear because it reminded her of her stuffed bear tha she use to love. These paragraph show us how much she cared for her bear.
5.) Her movement of the sofa on the porch makes it seem like the bear wasnt big and scary enough for her to not be on her porch. The smell of the fresh paint might be a reason the bear would stay away.
6.)In the seventh section, the readers sense of danger starts to build because we are told about all the bad things that the bears have done and destroyed. We are told about the killings and this creates a creepy and scary tone for the readers.
7.) In this story she marks the summer days with X's because those are they days she wants to forget. The X's stand for all the bad times she had and wished never happened. In the summer she use to visit her aunt and all the noises from the animals around her use to keep her awake at night.
8.) My first reaction was that i was scared for her. When she only wounded him and she couldnt get a good shot i was nervous that somthing bad was going to happen to her.
9.) In a way i found it surprising that next summer she went to dig up the claws because it did not seem like somthing she would do. I think she did it because she felt accomplished for killing the bear and wanted to see her success. It was like she was honoring herself for doing somthing good.