Saturday, March 7, 2009

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.

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