– Noun
– a piece of cloth that is used especially by women as a covering for the head or shoulders
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shawl
– ” …It was too much for the girl, who curled up each night exhausted in her red and brown plaid shawl…”
– A shawl is a common motif in this passage as well as the title.
– Noun
– A feeling of great happiness and excitement
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/euphoria
– ” I came to find out that a food that I had loved, a food that had produced so many euphorias in my family, was a food of the poor.”
– The author, Jenny Boully, is from Thailand and with great pride she expresses her love for pad thai.
– Noun
– a bell shaped usually glass vessel designed to cover objects or to contain gases
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bell%20jar
– ” To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
– Esther Greenwood is the person in the bell jar. She is trapped within her own mind which leads to her depression.
– Noun
– The attitude or actions of a person that protects people and gives them what they need but does not give them any responsibility or freedom.
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paternalistic
– “Then you can scratch the condenscending paternalistic terminology. It’s a woman, pal. Woman.”
– The second speaker is refering to women when he makes that comment.
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“The first time she had been so surprised she didn’t cry out or try to defend herself. She had always said she would strike back if a man, any man, were to strike her.
But when the moment came, and he slapped her once, and then again, and again; until the lip split and bled an orchid of blood, she didn’t fight back, she didn’t break into tears, she didn’t run away as she imagined she might when she saw such things in telenovelas.”
– Noun
– An offensive word or name that is used as a way of abusing or insutling someone.
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epithet
– “Don’t you think you should transcend those puritancial judgemental moralistic epithets?”
– The second speaker is getting the first speaker angry by keep questioning and re-telling the original story.
“When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line.”
1. The Bell Jar
2. Sylvia Plath
3. Esther who is the protagonist and narrator
4.This quote shows that Esther live in a world of limited sexual choices. Convention dictates that she will remain a virgin until she marries. If she chooses to have sex before marriage, she risks pregnancy, displeasing her future husband, and ruining her own name.
5.Esther looses her virginity with someone she does not expect to marry. regardless of this firm goal, she finds it difficult to gain an independent sexual identity.
1. Cockscombs
2.Doubloon
3.Cadaver
4.Ravenous
5.Barracks
7.Clamor
8.Perilous
9.Thematic
10.Predate
11. Patois
12. Proliferation
13. Ardent
14. Internecine
15.Erroneous
16. Gesticulation
This glossary assignment has definitely been impended into my brain. I think it is a great way to memorize words and it helped me better understand the text. It helped me make inferences as well.
– Verb
– To stop something from happening or to cause something to happen at a later time.
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forestall
– ” He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.”
– In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, the use of “forestall” is relevent becasue of the heart attack at the end could of been avoided.
– verb
– to grow or raise under conditions that you can control.
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cultivating
– “She met Georgine Skeene there who was cultivating her voice.”
– Both main characters in this passage, Georgine Skeene and Helen Furr, both cultivated their voices and both became gay.
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