Death+of+a+Moth

[|Death of a Moth by Virginia Woolf]


 * Assignment:** Read this essay by Virginia Woolf and write a reaction to this piece. I'd like for you to try to tackle one of these three analysis areas:

For example: "Also, when there was nobody to care of to know, this gigantic effort on the part of an insignificant little moth, against a power of such magnitude, to retain what no one else valued or desired to keep, moved one strangely."
 * Analysis:** Take one line from the essay and take the line apart. Examine how the line can relate to a larger idea.


 * Connect to your Life:** Retell an experience where you observed someone/something fight (with everything they had) for the last moments of their life. How did this observation affect your perspective on your own life?


 * Synthesis:** As Woolf watches the moth, simultaneously there are events outside that continue uninterrupted. What is this supposed to represent?