3rd

Wide Sargasso Sea

by: Jean Rhys

Comments:

1. The mother has gone crazy and is now living with a colored married couple.

2. She is now surrounded by black people.

3. The girl is in Mount Calvary Convent away from her mother in Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1839.

4. She had a dream that she was getting married with a black man.

5. Her stepfather still visits her giving her presents.

Questions:

1. Why did they take her to the convent?

2. Why is it that the trees are always mentioned?

3. Why is her mother there?

4. What is going to happen to Antoinette?

Vocabulary:

1. Petted: any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately pg. 50

2. Rheumatism: any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness pg. 52

3. Ecstasy: an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden, intense feeling pg. 57

Literary Terms:

1. "Oh la la." pg. 51 Onomatopoeia

2. "My needle is swearing..." pg. 53 Personification

Overview Sentence:

1. The little girl is in a church with nuns and had a bad dream.

2nd

Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys

Comments:

1. The black people were burning their house.

2. The parrot got burned and it is bad luck to see a parrot burn.

3. Their life was over in that house.

4. Tid was her best friend and now every things changing.

5. The little girl is going to get married.

Questions:

1. Why did the mom wake her up in the middle of the night to get dressed?

2. Is the baby died?

3. Does the mom really love him?

4. Why did she cut her hair?

Vocabulary:

1. Glacis: a slope, especially one that is not very long or steep pg. 41

2. Poll: the head, or the back part of the head pg. 44

3. Plait: ponytail pg. 48

Literary Terms:

1. " Like in a looking - glass." Simile pg. 45

2. " He had the eyes of a dead fish." Metaphor pg. 48

Overview Sentence:

1. The family lost their life and everything they had because of the black people.

1st

Wide Sargasso Sea

by: Jean Rhys

Comments:

1. The mother and her daughter are not liked by the Jamaican people and her husband is died.

2. Their garden that grew life is now smelly of dead flowers.

3. Christophine was a black women gave to the mother as a present along time ago.

4. The black people were racist to her because she was white.

5.b Her dream was a sign that bad things are going to occur to her.

Questions:

1. Why do they live in Jamaica if they are white?

2. Who were those people talking to the mother?

3. Why did she marry that man?

4. Why do they always mention glacis?

Vocabulary:

1. Marooned: a deep purplish red color tinged with brown pg. 18

2. Sieve: a utensil consisting of a round frame surrounding a mesh and used to separate solids from liquids or large particles from small particles, or to purée foods pg. 29

3. Vexed: provoked to slight annoyance, anxiety or distress pg. 34

Literary Terms:

1. "It was covered with green moss soft as velvet and I never wanted to move again." Simile pg. 23

2. "Didn't you fly at me like a little wild cat when I said nigger" Simile pg. 32

Overview Sentence:

1. Annetter and her mother like in Jamaica and are hated by those people for being white.