Lesson Plans Silent Snow, Secret Snow

Instead, it is described as something that he carries around with him and uses as protection. He compares it to a wall that he hides from the world behind. View all Lesson Plans available from BookRags. View the Study Pack. Short Essay Questions Key. Short Answer Questions Key.

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Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. The main theme of the story is the onset and development of a mental disorder that causes the main character to withdraw into his own inner world. A metaphor in the story compares him to a flower that closes its petals and returns to a seed-like state. Conrad Aiken may have based the story on his family history of mental illness. When Aiken was eleven, his mentally ill father shot his mother, then himself.

His sister later suffered serious mental deterioration and required hospital treatment. Aiken worried that he himself was destined to lose his mind. Paul believes that he cannot adequately describe the ethereal loveliness of his new world. Moreover, he worries that any attempt to describe it would bode ill for him.

Would it merely mean that he would get into some obscure kind of trouble? By that time, he has already crossed the threshold into mental illness. Beauty vs the Beast. Paul perceives the real world as ugly, dreary, and broken compared to his new world of pristine snow. Consequently, it becomes a struggle for him to confront reality. Consider, for example, the following passage presenting his thoughts on his walk home from school.

Note the highlighted words. Although the narrator does not reveal the cause of Paul's mental illness, he hints that it began with an unresolved Oedipus Complex.

Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud introduced this term in to identify a psychological stage of development in which a male child unconsciously desires sexual intimacy with his mother or a female child unconsciously desires sexual intimacy with her father. The child also exhibits hostility toward the parent of the same sex—a boy for the father and a girl for the mother.

In normal development, a child outgrows this desire. However, in abnormal development, a child may retain his or her fixation on the parent of the opposite sex. As a result, mental illness can develop, Freud said. Where did you get the ideas for these stories? Did reading Freud have anything to do with them?

Although it is by no means clear that Paul suffers from an Oedipus Complex, he does think more often of his mother than his father. The word mother or mother's appears twenty-eight times in the story. The word father or father's appears fourteen times. Moreover, the following passage suggests that Paul harbors some negative feelings for his father.

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Aiken read and imitated Edgar Allan Poe. The latter's influence is apparent in Aiken's creation of a mentally unstable character and an eerie atmosphere. Also, like Poe, Aiken frequently used anaphora, a figure of speech involving repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of word groups occurring one after the other. Following are examples of Aiken's use of anaphora.

One must get up, one must go to breakfast, one must talk with Mother,. The garden walls too were various, some of wooden palings, some of plaster, some of stone. Beyond the thoughts of trees, mere elms.

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Beyond the thoughts of sidewalks, mere stone, mere brick, mere cement. Following are examples of figures of speech in the story.



In Greek mythology, ruler of the universe.