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.

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