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.
