Monday, April 27, 2009

Wide Sargasso Sea

Comments:
1. She got married to some man and is now in Massacre coming from Jamaica.
2. This is almost like Dominican Republic carrying baskets on top of their heads.
3. She has been sold to some stranger she doesn't even love.
4. She is not happy where she is and is very lonely.
5. She is getting married in a place called Granbab.
Questions:
1. Who is Antoinette?
2. What is the young bull ?
3. How are they happy in a house full of strangers?
4. What is she afraid of?
Vocabulary:
1. Melancholy: a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged; depression pg. 67
2. Menacing: something that threatens to cause evil, harm pg. 69
3. Veranda: a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery pg. 74
Literary Terms:
1. "Long, sad, dark alien eyes." Metaphor pg. 67
2. "... a little sad as if it knew it could not last." Simile pg. 72
Overview Sentence:
1. A girl and women arrived to a house that belongs to the Mason.

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