Monday, April 27, 2009

Wide Sargasso Sea

Comments:
1. The white girl has married a black boy which treats her very nice.
2. I thought she was a servant to those people but she is not.
3. They both feel that Jamaica and England is like a dream they which to wake up from.
4. Antoinette is the girl that went through that tragic with the fire burning her house down.
5. They don't mind getting their dress dirty since they are rich.
Questions:
1. Is there any other white person in the house?
2. What is Antoinette afraid of?
3. Where did they get the other girl from?
4. What did the rats represent?
Vocabulary:
1. Commemorating: to serve as a memorial or reminder of pg. 77
2. Chemise: a woman's loose-fitting, shirt like undergarment pg. 82
3. Plaits: to make, as a mat, by braiding pg. 84
Literary Terms:
1. "It was cold as ice in the hot sun." Simile pg. 77
2. "...and the noise, subdued in the inner room, was deafening Crack - Cracks..." Onomatopoeia pg. 81
Overview Sentence:
1. The black man treats her nice but she does not want to be there with him.

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