All 3 Uses
insulate
in
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
(Edited)
- Snow is clean, stark, severe, warm (as an insulating blanket, paradoxically), inhospitable, inviting, playful, suffocating, filthy (after enough time has elapsed).
Chpt 10 *insulating = keeping the inside warm
- More specifically, it shows how people insulate themselves from what lies outside their own narrow view of the world—how to put up blinders (be they with velvet ribbons), if you will.
Chpt 27insulate = separate
- Birds and Flight Mansfield uses the metaphor of birds and flight as a strategy to show how the Sheridan insulate themselves from the lower classes.
Chpt 27 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(insulate as in: insulate the attic) to separate two things to prevent passage of something such as heat, cold, noise, or electricity -- often by covering one of the things with a material
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(2)
(insulate as in: insulate her from harm) to separate someone or something from influences thought to be harmful
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)