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Final Exam quotes

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“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”

1) The Bell Jar

2) Sylvia Plath

3) Esther

4) This passage is showing us that Ester did not find the idea of marriage comforting at all. She just wanted an exciting life and didn’t see it with anyone. I actually don’t think that she ever liked the idea of marriage throughout the novel. I feel like everyone around her made her feel that marriage was always like this. Of course it was during a different time period, but I still don’t think that every guy would have been the same. I felt like Esther felt like she was forced to get married one day and for that reason did not enjoy the idea.

5) I think that this text is showing us that Esther doesn’t like anything that she is supposed to do I the future. I think she just wants to live her life with no rules. Women in that point in time were supposed to get married and I honestly think that thinking about anything that she was “supposed” to do stressed her out. I think they included this in the texts because usually a girl from that time would be very excited about being a future wife. I think this passage was showing us that Esther is not like the rest.

6) The fact that Esther is stressed out about being forced to do things because of society’s expectations reminds me of the main character from The Yellow Wallpaper because they both seem so scared about the future. I feel like they are scared about nothing because they don’t have to do anything that they don’t want to do, but they don’t know this. The main character in The Yellow Wallpaper always thought she was being watched, when she wasn’t. I just think they go together because they are both just being paranoid.

Glossary Wrap up

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1.Fictitious

2. Asunder

3. Prosaically

4. Shock therapy

5. Rosenberg case

6. Shawl

7. Telenovela

8. parasitism

9. Intrinsic

10. Prodigal

11. Geisha

12.eccentricity

13. Lacerated

14. Atrocious

15. recitatif

 

The glossary assignments during this semester is actually one of the times i wish I did every week. But I didn’t have the time to do so. The words Ive chosen are the words I think relates more to each story and also I didn’t know the meaning for most of them. After defining these words is helped me better understand the text. I also came across some of these words in my other classes.

Indeterminate

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Indeterminate – Adjective

Definition- not able to be stated or described in an exact way

Source – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indeterminate?show=0&t=1400613607

Found in – ” There was Once ” by Margaret Atwood

Passage – ” There was once a girl of indeterminate descent, as average- looking as she was good, who lived with her wicked”

This was one of the correction that the second speakers makes while the first speaker is telling the story. The second speaker states that the character of the original Cinderella story was already from the dominate  culture which is white, that the story should be different. That Cinderella should be from some other culture but by saying  indeterminate to says that the race is unknown so every reader could assume she from any place.

Bell jar

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Bell Jar – noun

Definition – a bell-shaped usually glass vessel designed to cover objects or to contain gases or a vacuum

Source – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bell+jar?show=0&t=1400612972

Found in – The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

Passage – “wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air”

Throughout this story the significance of the bell jar was very important here we see Esther feeling that she is inside of a bell jar because she is suffocating within her own thoughts. Esther is not able to express what she truly feels in this is why she feels trap.

Expanding My Vocabulary

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1.Inharmonious
2.Query
3.Hitherto
4.Hubbub
5. Slunk
6.Shillings
7.Trivial
8.Triumph
9.Ridiculed
10.Congenial
11.Sanatorium
12.Evasion
13.Monstrous
14.Bell Jar
15. Indeterminate

 This is not the first time I was assigned a vocabulary assignment throughout a course I honestly believe that this is a great way to expand my vocabulary  and understand the reading better. This assignment was interesting to me because I will always assume the definition of the word  I don’t know  and sometimes I am right and other I am not and its great to read the true definition . Its a great opportunity to comprehend the stories that we have read in this course.

 

Monstrous

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Monstrous – Adjective

Definition – very wrong or unfair

Source –http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monstrous

Found in – ” The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

Passage – ” She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her”

Ms. Mallard was so happy that she will now live for herself for the upcoming years that she didn’t even question  if the joy she was feeling was something wrong because she really was supposed to be sad that her husband passed away.

Evasion

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Evasion- noun

 

Definition:a way of avoiding something

Source:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evasion

Found in: “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath

Passage: “ I don’t know just why my successful evasion of chemistry should Have floated into my mind there in Jay Cee’s office”

I know understand that  She was asking herself why she  starting to think about the unpleasant experience she had during chemistry while she was attending school.

Sanatorium

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Sanatorium -noun

 

Definition: an establishment that provides therapy combined with a regimen (as of diet and exercise) for treatment or rehabilitation

Source:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sanatorium

Found in: “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath

Passage: “ Buddy mother had even arranged for me to be given a job as a waitress at the TB sanatorium that summer so Buddy wouldn’t be lonely”

I now  understand that this was the place Buddy was taken to so he could receive treatment for his disease.

Congenial

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 Congenial – adjective

Definition: existing or associated together harmoniously

Source:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/congenial

Found in: “ The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins

Passage: “ Personally, I believe that congenial word, with excitement and change , would do me good. But what is one to do?

Understanding what the word mean I see that the narrator actually believes that if she had something to do or as to interacting with other people she will actually feel better. I agree with her because it’s like her husband has he isolated from the world not letting her to nothing or interact with no one else but himself and his sister. I think if he actually let her write freely she will feel better about herself.

Ridiculed

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Ridiculed

Definition: the act of making fun of someone or something in a cruel of harsh way
Source:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ridiculed

Found in: “ Quicksand” by Nella Larsen

Passage: “ Helga Crane too had risen.  Quickly. A sort of madness had swept over her. She felt that he had belittled and ridiculed her. And thing this she had suddenly savagely slapped Robert Anderson with all her might, in the face”

Understanding what the word mean I know understand that she felt that Dr. Anderson was actually fooling her or taking her as a fool and this is why she got highly upset and reacted physically .