post # 5

5 comments
-The narrator is crying after the encounter with the girl and boy who were following her
-She went to a catholic school with nuns
-The girl began to crack her knuckles, trying to intimidate the narrator
-Another boy helped the narrator with the books she droped
-The boy (named Alexander) told her that the other two kids would not bother her anymore
4 questions
-Why did the narrator start crying?
-Why were the nuns not being nice, or trying to comfort her as she was crying?
-Why did she want her hair like Helen?
-Why didnt they have any looking-glass?
3 vocabulary
pelted-to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
jostling-to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely.
basin-a circular container with a greater width than depth, becoming smaller toward the bottom, used chiefly to hold water or other liquid, esp. for washing.
2 literary terms
"Dont touch me. I'll kill you if you touch me. Coward. Hypocrite. I'll kill you' repititon
' He had the eys of a dead fish' metaphor
1 overview sentence
Basically explains her talking to a nun in school.