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Comments:

1. Time and money have lost meaning in Annotoinettes life
2. Shes has lost all sense of herself during the time that she was stuck in the attic
3. She dreams of her dress and its like a reminder to her life and the smell of the Caribbean
4. In her dream she dreams of a fire and Rochester telling her to jump he seems to be caring for her some how wanting her to jump away from it
5. Annotoinette believes that Richard thinks that she has tooken the same path as her mother hasd done a long time ago

Questions:

1. Why has Anntoinette completely forgoten who she was?
2. How doe sthe red dress help to remind her of her home?
3. What doe sthe fire mean in her dream?
4. Is Richard going to think that she is crazy now?

Vocabulary:

1. garret: an attic, usually a small wretched one
2. fragmenation: the disintegration, collapse, or breakdown of norms of thought, behavior, or social relationship
3. brazen: shameless or impudent

Literary terms:
1. expostition: on a cool, cloudy day , Rochester senses the approaching hurricane season ..
2. simile: Rochester compares Anntoinette to her mom

Overview Sentence:
Anntoinette has lost all of her sense and has become a silent zombie. All she does is lay around up in the garret attic with her servant. When she does talk she asks about time its seems as if she can not keep track of it.

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Comments:
1. Rochester ; finally arrives a England with his wife
2. He is basically holding Anntoinette captive in the attic of their house
3. the only person allowed to know about Anntoinette is her servant
4. her step brother richard mason visits her ( shes attacks him )
5. she has weird dreams of her roaming the house and fianlly leaving the attic

Questions :
1. Why did they go to England?
2. Why is he keeping her in the attic?
3. Is Rochester ashamed of Anntoinette?
4. Will she ever escape the attic?

Vocabulary:
1. captive: being held like a prisioner
2. ashamed: feeling disgraced
3. insanity: realtiong to permanent disorder of mind

Literary terms:
1. allieterion
2. metaphor

Overview:
Anootionette is held captive up in the attic of their new home in England. No one is being allowed to know that she is there and no one is allowed to visit her. Though her personal servant does let her step brother Richard visit. Rochester seems to be ashamed of her because, he doesnt want her to be seen by anyone.

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Comments:
1. Christophine was taking care of Anntoinette since the heart break she's had
2. She accuses Rochester of wanitng the money and not loving Anntoinette but making pretend he did by getting her hooked on sex
3. Christophine knows that Rochester does all these things on purpose to hurt Anntoinette
4. Rochester was thinking about letting Christophine take Anntoinette
5. He is thinking about fleeing with his wife

Questions:
1. Why did Rochester do all these horrible things to his wife?
2. How did he get her hooked on sex and she thought she loved it?
3. Does he not love Anntionette at all?
4. Why does Rochester want to flee with his wife?

Vocabulary:
1. gesticulating: to make or use gestures, esp. in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech
2. malignant: disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred
3. chemises: a woman's loose-fitting, shirtlike undergarmet

Literary terms:
1. alliteration
2. anther alliteration

Overview sentence:
After he kicks Christophine out a few days later decides to finally move out of Africa and go to England. To make her suffer even more he wnats to take her away from the island she loves.

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Comments:
1. Rochester was feeling bad about the dream he had just had
2. He felt envious of Anntoinette while he watched her sleep
3. her husband slept with servant Amelie
4. the love potion that she had given him had made him want to sleep with her
5. she left the house for three days after

Questions:
1. Why was he feeling bad about his dream?
2. Why had they given a love potion?
3. Can anntoinette forgive her husband?
4. how did anntoinette feel about her husband betrayal?

Vocabulary:
1. sombre: dark and dull, as color, or as things in respect to color
2. patois: jargon; cant; argon
3. tricorne: having three horns or hornlike projections; three-cornered

Literary terms:
1.expostion
2. denounment

Overview Sentence:
Anntoinette gave her husband a love potion. Which made him end up sleeping with the servant Amelie , and she felt horrible about this.

Wide Saragasso Sea 5

Comments:
1. Rochestser sits with her at night getting drunk to forget
2. Rochester mentions a convo that he had with Daniel
3. Anntoinette accuses Daniel of being a liar
4. She describes Calabari of being "sacred to the sun"
5. Rochester thinks that christopher's suggestion about spending time
apart was a good idea

Questions:
1. Why do they get drunk?
2. Why does Anntoinette think that Daniel is a liar?
3. Where is Calabari's location?
4. Why does Rochester think that they should spend time apart?

Vocabulary:
1. dismounted: to bring or throw down, as from a horse; unhorse; throw
2. shamrock: any of several plants, such as a clover or wood sorrel, having compound leaves with three small leaflets, considered the national emblem of Ireland
3. tricorne: having three horns or hornlike projections; three-cornered

Literary terms:
1. Metaphor
2. Simile

Overview Sentence:
Annotointte and Rochester decide to get drunk I guess they dont feel good about themselves and their indiviual situations at the moment

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Comments:

1. the family saw a dead bird and i think they saw it as a sign of hope is lost
2. everyone said that the death of the bird was bad luck to have seen
3. Alexander helps Anntoinette when she dropped her books
4. After she told her nun about the dream
5. The nun believed she must forget about it because it wasnt a good dream

Questions:
1. Why was it that Annotionette always dreamed about her home?
2. Did Anntoinette miss living in her home?
3. Why would she want her old life back?
4. why did the nun think that she was sick?

Vocabulary:

1. convent: a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior
2. melacholy-a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged; depression
3. porter-a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel

Literary terms:

1. Metaphor
2. Simile

Overview Sentence:
She kept dreaming of her past life and her home and some of the experiences she had lived in the old house. The nun believed it was a bad dream.

Wide Saragasso Sea 4

Comments:

1. Anntoinette is feeling very nervous and is intimidated by all of the narrartor
2. Anntoinette had an encounter and with Alexander that was not pleaseant
3. She went to catholic school even if she wasnt really religious
4. the aunt wanted her to sing along with her
5. Anntoinette ended up fainting

Questions:

1. Why was race such a big part of life in africa?
2. Why are white called niggers?
3. What were the things that started race?
4. Can whites and blacks ever get along in africa?

Vocabulary:
crimson: deep purplish
redpious: having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations
bridle: part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit,

Literacy terms:
1.repetition: they repeat things more than once
2. metaphor

Overview Sentence:
Alot is happening to Annoinette , shes going through loads of downs and shes even fainted

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5 comments
1. Anntoinette was told that she had to go to England , because of certain reasons
2. She the narrartor watched as the characters did the silk
3. Her step dad always gives her presents because he really does care about him
4. She wasnt able to take the presents
5. Anntoinette does care about her step dad and he about her so he asks her to move in with him

4 questions
1. what were all the presents for?
2. Will she decide to move into her step dads house?
3. Does the step dad have good intentions on Annotoinette ?
4. Are her and her family religious?

3 vocabulary
rheumatism:any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness
deportment: demeanor; conduct; behavior
chemises: a woman's loose-fitting, shirtlike undergarmet

2 literary terms
1.simile
2.repetition

overview sentence
Anntoneitte has alot to think about whether or not to move into her step dads house and she talks about alot of things she wants to do.

Wide Sargasso Sea 2

Comments:

1. When Anntionette was at Tia's house they made a bet and then they began to fight because Tia betrayed her and she took her nice clothes
2. After leaving Tias house she finds when she arrives at her own house that there are tow other starnge people at her house ( two girls & a gentleman )
3. Christophine believes that the strangers that have been inside the house are troublesome people that shouldn't be trusted
4. Mr. Mason turns out to be one of the stranger people, asks for Annette ( mom ) for her hand ain marriage and she accepts
5. Mr. Mason fixes the outside of the house so that it is back to its beautiful outlook

Questions:

1. What is a glacis?
2. Why does Mr.Mason suddenly want to marry Annette?
3. How does Anntoniette feel about her mother remarrying?
4. Why is Annette so distant from her daughter?

vocabulary:

1. Glacis : a covered balcony
2. improverished: reduced to poverty
3. aristocracy: a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, esp. the hereditary nobility

Literary terms:

1.metaphor : about white people & blacks each staying in their "place"
2. simile

Overview SEntence:
Anntoneitte is forced to accept the fact that her mother Annette is going to marry the strange gentleman Mr.Mason because, he asked for her hand in marriage.

Wide Sargasso Sea 1

Comments:
1. Antoniette is the main character and the daughter of ex-slave owners who went broke after
the Emanicipation act of 1833
2. They used to be rich but after the slaves were freed their plantation is no longer
full of life ; and has been run down
3. Black people are mean to Antoniette for being white
4. Antoneittes mom is Annette and her dad was Alexander Cosway but he died soon after the slaves were freed
5.She had a bad feeling something bad would occur
Questions:
1. Why do they live in Jamaica if they are a white family isnt that weird?
2. Did the dad really drink himself to death?
3. What's going to happen to the family?
4. Are they going to be able to survive without the dad?
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. simile
2.simile
Overview Sentence:
1. Anntoinette and her family have just went into ruins and her dad just currently died so her family isnt doing well at all economically or in any other way. The people from Jamaica are beginning to treat them really badly becuase they used to be a fimly of slave owners befrore the emanicipation act of 1833.

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Comments:
1. Mr. & Mrs.Hall had put two and two together, the rumor of the buglary and the stranger being gone all night that same day

2.The stranger had went into the parlour of the Coach and the horses but, adnt reurn yet and people were curious to know why

3. Mrs. Hall finally did stand up for herself to the stranger because, he was being very demanding to her asking her to do his breakfast and he hadnt payed for his bill in the hotel yet which really angered her

4. Mrs.Hall started asking him questions about where he had been and how in the world had he enetred the house once again without being seen

5. The stranger unveiled himself and showed her who he really was by taking of his nose, clothes etc. and they couldn't anything nothing at all ; he was invisible

Questions:
1. Where had the stranger been all night?

2. why hadn't he payed his bill to Mrs.Hall yet?

3. Will he answer any of Mrs.Hall's angry questions?

4. How was the stranger invivsibe yet alive?

Vocabulary:
1. Intangible: not tangible; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; impalpable.

2. Coherent: logically connected; consistent

3. Expostulation: the act of expostulating; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest

Literary terms:
1. Personification

2. Simile: The stranger toa ghost because he was invisible.

Overview Sentence:
Mrs.Hall and The stranger began to have an arguement becuase the was beig demanding about his breakfast and he yet hadn't paid his bill to the hotel. So she started asking him the questions everyone was curious to know out of anger. About where he had been the night before and why didnt he ver talk etc. He finally unveiled himself and the big surprise was that there was nothing under the clothes ; he was invisible.

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Comments:
1. Early in the morning even before Millie began hunting, when Mr. & Mrs.Hall woke up and found that the stranger wasn't in his room

2.Mr.Hall noticed that the bolts of the front door were ajar and unscrewed

3. Mr.Hall enetered the stranger's room and started to look around and notice most of this things were there but from the feels of his bed the stranger hadn't slept there the night before

4.They heard the fron door open and shut but no one there, thought they didnt play much mind to it at that exact moment

5.When Mr. & Mrs.Hall entered his room again the clothes leapt up and stacked on their own and then the furniture began to fly around, Mrs.Hall thought that the stranger put spirits into the furniture

Questions:
1. Why had the fron door been ajar?

2. Wherecould the stranger have been all night?

3. Was the stranger going to return to the hotel or had he left?

4. Why did the furniture move on its own and did the stranger really put spirirts into it?

Vocabulary:
1. Ajar: neither entirely open nor entirely shut; partly open

2. Terminated: to bring to an end; put an end to

3.Ascertained: To discover with certainty, as through examination or experimentation. See Synonyms at discover.

Literary terms:
1. Metaphor "dont stick your nose where the wind dont blow"

2. Simile: what happened in the house to what happened on tv

Overview SEntence:
Mr.& Mrs.Hall had woken up early and started their daily agenda. But, Mr.Hall notices that the strangers door is ajar meaning that he wasnt in their. So then he & Mrs.Hall can tell that the stranger hadn't been there all night. Right then all his clothes started plying up and the furniture moving. Mrs.Hall thought that the stranger had put his spirits into the furniture.

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Comments:
1. The invisible had revealed some stuff to Mr.Cuss in the extensive converstaion that they had the day in his room

2. Mr.Cuss told Mrs.Hall and Mr.Hall everything about what had happened when he finally decided tobe brave and just ask him about who he is and exactly what it is that he does

3.They still haven't complete figured out who he is they have no idea that "the invisble man" might just be someone closer than anyone could think especially the owners of the Horse Inn in Iping

4. It was so hard to actually realize that the stranger had some kind of deformatio and angermanagement issues becuase he never revealed anything so they were always clueless to anything that had to do with him

5. There are starnge robberies starting to occur in Iping after this mysterious discovery

Questions:
1. Why are these robberies occuring?

2.Who is the one committing these robberies?

3. DO they suspect o fthe stranger?

4. Why dont they ever just leave the stranger alone?

Vocabulary:
1. Decadence: the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay

2. Impalpable: not palpable; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch; intangible.

3. Perceptible: capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable

Literary terms:
1.metahor

2.simile

Overview sentence:
They are staring to make new dsicoveries about the stranger.

Invisible man 5

Comments:
1.The facts of the buglary at the vicarage came to them from the Vicar and his wife

2.They described how the scene of the night shimmered in completely darkness as they heard the burgular inside their home at about 4

3.They heard mummurs but couldnt make out the the words of whom ever was inside their home at that moment

4. Mr. Vicar and his wife armed themselves to be safe when they went downstairs to look and catch the robber in his act so that they could send him or her to the police as soon as they saw who the person was

5. When they got downstairs they heard the door slam and looked all around their home but there was not a soul in sight and right there the sun began to rise high above the sky and they began to wonder where who ever it was had gotten

Questions:
1.WHy did they want to rob Mr.Vicar's house?

2.Are they sure they took anything inside their house?

3. Did they really hear a robber or was it all inside their heads?

4. Will they found if their was aburgular in their house?

Vocabulary:
1.Twilight: the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall.

2.Quaintly:having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque

3.Scullery: a small room or section of a pantry in which food is cleaned, trimmed, and cut into cooking portions before being sent to the kitchen

Literary terms:
1. alliteration

2.personification

Overview Sentence:
Mr.Vicar and his wife went to the hotel to tell Mr.& Mrs. Hall about the burgular that been in their house at the break of dawn. They hadn't been able to catch him in the act though.

Invisible man 4

Comments:
1. the stranger still hadn't improve his behavior and Mr.Hall didnt like it so he wanted to get rid of him but Mrs.Hall always protested and told him to wait till the summer.

2.Mr.Hall began to notice that the stranger was at all interested in going to church (non-religious) their was never a difference in his days

3. He was always hard to keep up with his mood was always very intense and full of vilonce at some times he would snap and he had a habit of talking to himself but, Mrs.Hall could never make out what he was saying

4. People from the town would occaionallly questioned her on the stay of the stranger there and she explained his profession and that he was an experimental investigator

5. Mr.Cuss went up to the strangers room and began asking him questions becuase he felt brave enough to do so. He asked him about his experiemnts, life etc. Then he noticed that the stranger had no arm and then he sees that the cuff made it look as if he did.

Questions:
1.What did Mr.Cuss want to find out about the stranger?

2.How did the stranger feel about talking to Mr.Cuss?

3.What happened to his arm?

4.Why did it feel to Mr.Cuss like the cuff was an arm even if his arm was really misisng?

Vocabulary:
1.Penury:extreme poverty; destitution.

2.Imprecation:the act of imprecating; cursing

3.ghastly:shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible

Literary terms:
1. Metaphor: a missing arm to a ghost

2.Simile

Overview Sentence:
Mr.Cuss decided to be brave and interview thww stranger do they can find something out about him and it all was fell till he found out something very unexpected.

Invisible man 3

Comments:

1. On the 21th of February he recievedhis luggage and it was said to be very remarkable. He had many books and incomprehensible languages

2. The stranger was picky when the guys came with his luggage he wanted everything in perfect order

3. Mr.Hall went in the stranger's room and he pushed him out of the room, shut and locked the door in his face so he wouldn't try to enter once again.

4. Mr. Hall carried ina crate to his room and their were many experimanetal bootles inside like powders, poison with other fancy designs

5. Mr. HAll told Fearenside that when his dog bit the stranger he was black. And he became very alarmed because the starngers face was white.

Questions:
1. What's the time period during this convo ?

2. Will the stranger ever be nice to them people from the hotel?

3.Can they be sure that there isnt anything wrong with stranger?

4.Why was the starngers legs black yet his face white?

Vocabulary:
1.trousering:Cloth or material for making trousers.

2.chiffonnier:a high chest of drawers or bureau, often having a mirror on top.

3.Expedient:tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances: It is expedient that you go.

Literary terms:
1.Imagery

2.Personification

Overview Sentence:
The stranger had finally recieved all of the luggage he had been waiting for since the sorm began. But, now he was being very rude to the workers of the hotel. And the hotel worker Mr.Hall saw that the strangers leg was black. this confused him becuase his face was white.

The invisible man 2

Comments:
1. The weather was improving so the stranger was still in the hotel

2. The downcast of the stranger's face appeared dark and misterious

3.The stranger was rude and asked to be alone and undisturbed in the room he was in, even to the owner of the hotel

4. The stranger explains that he is an experimental investigator, that he needs his things because, they contain apparatus and more off his appliances

5. Teddy thought that Millie shouldn't be trustworthy of the stranger because she didnt even no his name

Questions:
1. Why didnt the stranger want Millie to be in his room?

2. Will the stranger reveal anything ?

3. Can the stranger be capab;e of being dangerous?

4. Should Millie trust the stranger because, she doesn't even know his name?

Vocabulary:
1. Suppressed: To put an end to forcibly; subdue.

2.Spectacles:anything presented to the sight or view, esp. something of a striking or impressive kind

3. Adverse:unfavorable or antagonistic in purpose or effect

Literary terms:
1.Simile stone to the stranger

2.Metaphor

Overview sentence:
-the stranger had declared that he would stay at the hotel because of the bad weather. But, no matter how much Millie tried he wouldn't speak a word.

The inivisble man 1

Comments:
1. the strange man that arrived at the hotel seemed to be more dead than alive and yelled taht there was a fire

2. The starnger was beinghostile toward Millie, he was lost in thought and rude

3. "When she returned he was standing there like a man of stone hiding his face completely"

4.Ms. Hall was hasty to make conversation to the stranger but he wasn't at all interested

5. Millie thought "the ghost" or the strange visitior was rude after all she'd donr to make him feel more comfortable

Questions:
1. Who is the stranger?

2. Why is the stranger at the hotel?

3. What's the stranger's problem with Millie?

4. Will the starnger ever be drawn to the conversation?

Vocabulary:
1. Loath -unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse

2. Scythe- an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.

3. Parlour-Chiefly British

Literary terms:
1. Simlie: comparing the stranger to a ghost for not talking
2.Metaphor

Overview Sentence:
- The stranger randomly appears at the hotel who wont indulge in conversation or reveal anything about himself. He acts rude toward the owner of the hotel Millie