2nd

Insatiable

by: Eve Eliot

Comments:

1. Hannah is afraid people might think she is not normal because she is lesbian but that doesn't matter.

2. Samantha is losing so much weight her jeans don't even fit her and she is cutting herself because her ex doesn't want to be with her.

3. Phoebe is really worried and sad because she can't help but eat food by the minute.

4. Jessica is fainting and is not telling nobody about it because she doesn't want to get involved in no hospital.

5. Samantha was riding a car for the first time that got her mind off of everything.

Questions:

1. What is Al - Anon?

2. Why does Hannah think it was her fault her mother died?

3. What does the needle in the hospital give to people?

4. Her mom does not care?

Vocabulary:

1. Reluctant: struggling in opposition pg. 61

2. Paisley: a soft woolen fabric woven with a pattern of colorful and minutely detailed figures pg. 70

3. Hoarse: having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness pg. 77

Literary Terms:

1. "...with lank, blond hair and pale, watery eyes.." Direct Characterization pg. 60

2. "Eating other foods would be like eating a flashlight or a picture frame." Simile pg. 69

Overview Sentence:

1. These four girls are messing up their life with problems of eating little or just eating a lot.

1st

Insatiable

By: Eve Eliot

Comments:

1. These four girls are crazy they do not eat or some eat to get over there problems.

2. Samantha is a girl who does not eat at all she could last up to 2 days without eating and when she does eat she throws it up.

3. Phoebe is a girl who is very smart but is fat and does not eat cause she wants to be normal being skinny.

4. It doesn't matter the way you look you should be happy about your life.

5. I'm the kind of girl who will not leave food for nothing in the world i love to eat.

Questions:

1. Why does Samantha want to get skinner?

2. Why can't she eat a lot?

3. Why is she cutting herself?

4. Why did they stick her up?

Vocabulary:

1. Scampered: to run or go hastily or quickly pg. 18

2. Dissuade: to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something pg. 28

3. Residue: something that remains after a part is removed pg. 47

Literary Terms:

1. "...the sadness spilled over like bright, red ink soaking across soft paper." Simile pg. 17

2. " She enjoyed watching her own mind..." Personification pg. 37

Overview Sentence:

1. These girls are very dumb they need to live their life without trying to hurt themselves or become something else.

10th

Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys

Comments:

1. He tries to make her as another person but she really is not.

2. She really loved him it was him who married her for her money.

3. Her life is wrecked all she does is drink rum because of him.

4. He used to love things in the world but now he says its because of her she is going her moms way of acting.

5. He realizes that she loves him truly and that's his wife so he begins a good life with her.

Questions:

1. Are they going to get a divorce?

2. Does he really love her?

3. What has happened with her money?

4. Are they going to end up in England?

Vocabulary:

1. Menaced: something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury pg. 149

2. Abominable: repugnant hateful; detestable; loathsome pg. 161

3. Lunatic: an insane person pg. 166

Literary Terms:

1. "By this time the man crying like a baby." Simile pg. 151

2. "Pity like a naked new - born babe striding the blast." Simile pg. 164

Overview Sentence:

1. He feels that they can make their relationship a more better love and that's what they are trying to do.

9th

Wide Sargasso Sea

by: Jean Rhys

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.

8th

Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys

Comments:

1. There is a lot of feeling that these characters give away.

2. He marries Antoinette without knowing nothing about her only that she has money.

3. He was at the place in which the house burned down.

4. The trees and natural living things are signs that there living a bad life.

5. Antoinette doesn't care about money all she wants is to be loved and happy.

Questions:

1. Where is his dad and brother?

2. Who is that little girl?

3. What road was there before?

4. Why does she say he hates her?

Vocabulary:

1. Sparse: not thick or dense; thin pg. 103

2. Hibiscus: any of numerous other plants, shrubs, or trees of the genus pg. 109

3. Chandeliers: a decorative, sometimes ornate, light fixture suspended from a ceiling, usually having branched supports for a number of lights pg. 111

Literary Terms:

1. "...my fathers face and his thin lips, my brothers round conceited eyes." Direct Characterization pg. 103

2. "...clever like the devil." Simile pg. 112

Overview Sentence:

1. Antoinette feels her husband hates her and thinks about leaving far away since her life is a living nightmare.

7th

Wide Sargasso Sea

by: Jean Rhys

Comments:

1. Her mind about England would would never change, all she wants is to go over there.

2. The letter sent to him was about how his wife n her family owned slaves.

3. The girl does not have fault in her family owning slaves and they lived pretty bad too.

4. Amelie disrespected her by saying that her husband is tired of the honeymoon and they started fighting.

5. Christophine is leaving Antoinette because she feels that house if filled with evil and she wants her rest.

Questions:

1. What does the envelope contain?

2. Is he really her brother?

3. What is Daniels purpose in wanting him to go over there?

4. What will she do with out Christophine?

Vocabulary:

1. Obstinate: firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty pg. 94

2. Cypher: a person of no influence; nonentity pg. 98

3. Patois: a rural or provincial form of speech pg. 102

Literary Terms:

1. "She have no money and she have friends, for French and English like cat and dog in these islands since long time." Simile pg. 96

2. "I sit at my window and the words fly past like birds- with Gods help I catch some." Personification pg. 98

Overview Sentence:

1. Antoinette is living a bad life little by little and now she is going to be all alone.

6th

Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys

Comments:

1. They act like they are very important but have stolen furniture in their house.

2. I don't think all beauty has a sad ending to their life.

3. The river is her place of being calm and free.

4. The music that the rain made was something wonderful to him.

5. She was forced to marry that boy by Richard.

Questions:

1. Is bull blood good to drink ?

2. Why did he accept to marry her?

3. Where did does kids come from?

4. How did she get sold to the boy ?

Vocabulary:

1. Dilapidated: reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect pg. 89

2. Blandishments: something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice pg. 01

3. Savage: fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed pg. 93

Literary Terms:

1. "They fell in a day, and looked like snow on the rough grass..." Simile pg. 87

2. "It was at night that I felt danger and would try to forget it and push it away." Personification pg. 93

Overview Sentence:

1. Even though she was sold to marriage they young boy doesn't love her but he wishes for her to be happy.