Monday, April 27, 2009

Wide Sargasso Sea

Comments:
1. The husband calls her Bertha because he found out Antoinette is her mothers name.
2. They are getting to have a good relationship with each other so far.
3. He is falling in love with someone else that's darker.
4. She has a sister in Demerara which she wants to go and live there.
5. He let her go to be free but knowing she will come back.
Questions:
1. Why can't she ever leave him?
2. Why can't they be happy?
3. Are they gay?
4. Why does he think she is only after rich men if she is rich?
Vocabulary:
1. Retched: to make efforts to vomit pg. 137
2. Petticoat: any skirt like part or covering pg. 140
3. Decanter: a vessel, usually an ornamental glass bottle, for holding and serving wine, brandy, or the like pg. 144
Literary Terms:
1. "...money pretty like pretty self..." Simile pg. 114
2. "He ran out almost as fast as the little girl had done." Simile pg. 145
Overview Sentence:
1. Antoinette is arguing with her husband about what justice really is

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