Sunday, March 29, 2009

Wide Sargasso Sea (Pages 171 - 189)

Comments:
She finally is in England.
Mr. Rochester doesn't even see her a lot.
She doesn't seem happy that she is in England.
People over there aren't nice to her.
She's all alone over there.

Questions:
Where is Mr. Rochester?
Did he leave her there by herself?
Why doesn't she believe that they are in England?
Does she miss Jamaica?

Vocabulary:
Smoulders -
To burn with little smoke and no flame
Porthole - round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light
Magdalene -
a reformed prostitute

Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "A ghost in the grey daylight"
Simile - "he looked at me and spoke to me as though I were a stranger"

Overview Sentence:
Antoinette is finally in England and Mr. Rochester doesn't see her much because he doesn't even try.




Wide Sargasso Sea (Pages 152 - 171)

Comments:
Christophine had left them.
I don't think that Antoinette even notice it.
He is making them leave that place.
She doesn't even want to leave.
I really think that Antoinette should just leave him he is no good for her.

Questions:
What are they going to do about the house?
Does all the money really belong to Mr. Rochester?
Why can't she take anyone with her?
Why does he what to leave her?

Vocabulary:
Forsake -
to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert
Folly - the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense
Maliciously - full of, characterized by, or showing malice; malevolent; spiteful

Literary Terms:
Simile - "I spoke aloud as I walked"
Personification - " The hurricane months are not so far away, I thought and saw that tree strike its roots deeper, making ready to fight the wind"

Overview Sentence:
Mr. Rochester is talking to Antoinette about things he is thinking about and other things that she has to let go of.

Wide Sargasso Sea (Pages 133 - 152)

Comments:
Mr. Rochester is treating Antoinette so bad.
She is so hurt that she is closing up.
Christophine is trying to help her but he wants to send her away.
He has no right to do that because if he does then Antoinette will go crazy.
He is so cruel to her and her family.

Questions:
Why is he making Christophine leave?
Does he believe that if he does than that would hurt Antoinette even more?
Does Antoinette even know anything about this?
How come Christophine doesn't say anything to Antoinette?

Vocabulary:
Peculiar -
strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings
Apprehensively - Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy
Hammocks - A hanging, easily swung length of canvas or heavy netting suspended between two trees or other supports and used as a seat or bed


Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "She was sleeping very soundly and quietly but there was awareness in her eyes when she opened them, and after a moment suppressed laughter"
Simile - "I come as quick as I can"

Overview Sentence:
Mr. Rochester is driving Antoinette insane. He wants to hurt her so he wants to make everyone around her leave her.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 114 - 133)

Comments:
In this part of the story it is Antoinette and Mr. Rochester talking.
Antoinette didn't want Christophine to leave her.
Mr. Rochester really wanted to know what happen to Antoinette mother.
There is mostly he say she say.
I think that Mr. Rochester should believe what Antoinette says because it was her mother.

Questions:
Who is Mr. Rochester going to believe?
Is Christophine really going to leave Jamaica?
Is Antoinette going to tell him the truth?
Would be believe her?

Vocabulary:
Counterpane -
a quilt or coverlet for a bed; bedspread
Carcass - slang. the body of a human being, whether living or dead
Gilt - to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance


Literary Terms:
Simile - "Your face like dead women and your eyes red like sourcriant"
Metaphor - "Your mother was a sly-boots if ever there was one"

Overview Sentence:
Mr. Rochester finally asked Antoinette about her past and her mother and she is about to tell him what had happen but the question is will he believe her?

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 95 - 114)

Comments:
Antoinette was the one talking now.
Antoinette really wants her marriage to work out.
Her husband was the one talking in the beginning.
Christophine won't help her.
Antoinette really wants to leave Jamaica and go to England.

Questions:
What is she going to do?
Will Christophine help her?
What's her husband next moves?
Will her marriage be ruined?

Vocabulary:
Astonishment -
Great surprise or amazement
Ornamented - Something that decorates or adorns; an embellishment
Decanter - a vessel, usually an ornamental glass bottle, for holding and serving wine, brandy, or the like

Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "If these mountains challenge me, or Baptiste's face or Antoinette eyes, they are mistaken, melodramatic, unreal"
Simile - "She creeps and crawl like centipede"

Overview Sentence:
Antoinette ask Christophine for help to save her marriage but she wouldn't help so Antoinette doesn't know what to do.

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 76 - 95)

Comments:
He doesn't seem to like anyone there.
Antoinette doesn't seem happy still.
They seem to be getting along.
He finds out the secrets of the Cosway family.
Antoinette isn't crazy like her mom.

Questions:
Why does everyone still hate them?
Why did they do?
Is this going to change anything?
Will he still stay with her?

Vocabulary:
Dawdles -
To take more time than necessary
Bewilder - to confuse or puzzle completely
Chemise - a woman's loose-fitting, shirt like undergarment

Literary Terms:
Simile - "It was cold as ice in the hot sun"
Personification - "It was often raining when I woke during the night, a light capricious shower, dancing playful rain, or hushed muted, growing louder, more persistent, more powerful, an inexorable sound"

Overview Sentence:
Antoinette husband had food out about the secrets of his wife family and this is going to change so many things.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 57 - 76)

Comments:
Antoinette must have been sad that her mother had passed away.
So in part two Antoinette wasn't the one talking.
They are leaving Spanish Town.
Antoinette must have really wanted to go to England.
Everything must have been hard for her.

Questions:
Why wouldn't anyone tell Antoinette how her mother died?
How come she didn't ask about it'?
Why was Antoinette husband so nervous?
Does he even know her that well that he would go an marry her?

Vocabulary:
Malignant -
disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred
Veranda - chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery
Dignified - characterized or marked by dignity of aspect or manner; stately; decorous


Literary Terms:
Simile - "You look like a kin, an emperor
Metaphor - "Shrill and sweet a very long sound"

Overview Sentence:
Antoinette's mother had passed away and he married a man that she did not know that well.

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 38 - 57)

Comments:
People over there must really hate them.
They did not have to burn down their house.
People are so cruel to Antoinette and her family.
It's sad that no one was able to save her younger brother.
She doe not get to see her mother much anymore since that day.

Questions:
Why did they burn down their house?
why doesn't anyone like them?
Does her mother even care about her?
Where did her mother go?

Vocabulary:
Jostling -
to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely
Rheumatism - any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness
Presumption - assumption of something as true

Literary Terms:
Simile - "This place is going to burn like tinder and there is nothing we can do about it"
Personification - "The diamond shaped pieces if silk melted one into the other, red, blue, purple, green, yellow all one shimmering color"

Overview Sentence:
Everything was going down hill for now on from that unforgettable day.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 19 - 38)

Comments:
There were many people living with them.
Her dad gave Christophine to her mother as a gift.
Later her mother remarried.
The daughter was a brides maid.
But she was not happy soon after.

Questions:
Why does Christophine choose to stay with them?
Why did everyone hate them?
Are they going to leave Jamaica?
Was she afraid of changes?

Vocabulary:
Vexed - irritated or annoyed
Plaits - a braid, especially of hair
Shingle -
a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings

Literary Terms:
Simile - "They shone like gold in the sun and Tia Stared"
Personification - "All this was long ago, when I was still babyish and sure that everything was alive, not only the river or the rain, but chairs, looking glasses, cups, saucers, everything"

Overview Sentence:
Her mother was getting remarried again and she seemed happy at first.

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 1-19)

Comments:
So her dad did not live with her.
They did not have many friends.
People noticed everything they did.
Their garden must have been very beautiful.
So there were many different people.

Questions:
Why did Mr. Lutterll kill himself?
Why did they poison her horse?
Where people jealous of them?
Why were people scared to visit them?

Vocabulary:
Martinique -
an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France
Pensioned - To grant a pension to
Glacis - a gentle slope

Literary Terms:
Simile - " our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the bible"
Metaphor - "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did"

Overview Sentence:
The family was going through so many problems and the locals were making it worse.