Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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.

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