Friday, March 6, 2009

Wide Sargasso Sea introduction - pages 5-13

5 comments
-jean Rhys was born at Roseau, Dominica
-Her father was a Welsh doctor
- Her mother was a Creole- a white west indian
-Jean came to England at the age of 16
-She married a Dutch poet
4 questions
-What did her aprents think of her marrieing a dutch poet?
-Why did she leave England?
-Why did she return to england?
-Why did Jean 'disapper' after writing Good Morning, Midnight?
3 vocabulary
immensely-vast; huge; very great
emancipated-not constrained or restricted by custom, tradition, superstition
patronizing-to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
2 literary terms
-'.... and then she falls passionately in love with him...' over exageration
-' What strucked me was....' over exageration
1 over view sentence
Basically an overview about Jean's life and her work that has been published