Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC Movie

5 Comments:

• Overall the movie skipped some on the key important parts that the book had mentioned.
• Sometimes, the events did not happen in the exact same order.
• Some of the characters weren't described in the same detail.
• The ending was confusing because Griet looked the same and you couldn't tell that she was older.
• Tanneke didn't seems as mean as she was in the book.

4 Questions:

• Why did they eliminate key parts?
• What could they have done to improve the ending?
• Why was Cornelia such a brat?
• Was Johannes having micxed feelings about Griet?

6 Film Terms:

• Long shot - when Tanneke shows her the studio
• Over the shoulder - when Griet is cleaning windows and Johannes is by the door lookin [in darkness]
• Midshot - Griet & Johannes are at the window look at the clouds.
• Long shot & Zoom - When Griet is being painted with earring, just like the picture
• Establishing shot - when she left the house because Catharina had found out about her sneaking around
• Bird's Eye - gets to the center of town and has to decide where to go

1 Sentence Review:

• Overall, I think the movie was okay, it could have been better if only it inquired the main points and theme of the story.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #5

5 Comments:

• I Can't stand Van Ruijven.
• Johannes didn't want to say anything to help Griet.
• I think Griet made the correct choice in marrying Pieter.
• After all those years Cornelia and her mother dipised Griet.
• Griet kept the 5 coins because she still had love for Johannes.
• It's about time Griet slapped Cornelia**Met her with a slap and left her with a slap**

4 Questions:

• Deos van Ruijven want to cause trouble?
• What was missing from the painting?
• What was so special about the pearl earring that Griet noticed?
• Where did Greit decide to go?
• Did Johannes committ suicide?

3 Words:

• Placate(pg.197): to appease or pacify
• Cumbersome(pg. 200): burdensome
• Tavern(pg 229): a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.

2 Literary Terms:

• Flashback(pg. 232): "I reached over and slapped her"
• Symbolism(pg. 233): " I would hide them somewhere that Pieter nd my sons would not look, some unexpected place that only I knew of. I would never spend them."

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet is caught in the act, runs away.. 10 years later she starts a new life and it is finished when Catharina gives her the pearl earrings.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #4

5 Comments:

• Griet was now feelinf more welcoe and comfortable living with the new family.
• All these other painters were influencing Johannes.
• Pieter the son can't seem to understand Griet sometimes.
• Maria Thins was beginning to do favors for Griet.
• The way she ended hear was like he was doing something to her that she didn't like (reminded me of rape)
• Pieter was a sick pervert.
• Griet said no to her master for the first time.

4 Questions:

• Was Johannes afraid to mention that Griet was helping him?
• Was Catharina really happy to have Johannes paint Griet?
• What was going to happen not that Fran's knows about Griet's feelings for her master?
• Why was Catharina constantly getting pregnant?

3 Words:

• Curlicues(pg. 164): an ornamental
• Bravado(pg. 156): a pretentious
• Querulous(pg. 174): full of complaints

2 Literary Terms:

• Imagery(pg. 142): " The sea is visible but can never be reached"
• Simile(pg. 169): "...their grey was ike the inside of an oyster shell"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet sneaks around behing mostly everyone in the household as Johannes paints her, but he then asks her to put on his wife's earrings.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #3

5 Comments:

• Maria Thins now knows what Griet was up to, and she does not mind.
• Griet's parents like Pieter and want him to marry her.
• Maertge was 18 years old and the oldest sister.
• Tanneke acts this way towards Griet because Williem beat his sister Catharina.
• Catharina was very conscious of herself.

4 Questions:

• What does the painter want from the apothecary?
• Was the painter aware of the situation he was putting Griet into?
• Is Johannes going to paint Griet and get her pregnant for him?
• Why is Tanneke jealous of Griet?

3 Words:

• ocher(pg. 95): any of a class of natural earths
• winced(pg. 137): to draw back or tense the body

2 Literary Terms:

• Man Vs. Man Conflict(pg. 109): "So this is what you've been up to, eh, girl?"
• Simile(pg. 141): "Maertge was a little like my sister, Agnes, had been lively"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet becomes more closer in contact with the painter as she run errands and grinds things for him.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #2

5 Comments:

• Griet always mentioned the man as he... does not know his name.
• That was rude... She disses her own sister just because she was with Maertge.
• Her Agnes died... That was karma for turning her sister back the day she saw her.
• He was planning on painting a picture of Griet.
• Tanneke was mad because he was painting a picture of Griet.

4 Questions:

• Was she ashamed when she saw her sister when she wasn't alone?
• Was Griet beginning to fall for the painter or the butcher's son?
• How did Griet feel when she found out her sister Agnes had died?
• What does the painter want from the apothecary?

3 Words:

• Subdued(pg. 48): to conquer and bring into subjection
• Camera Obscura(pg. 56): a darkened boxlike device in which images of external objects
• Pheasant (pg. 79): any of numerous large

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile (pg. 58): "When he smiled his face was like an open window"
• Personification (pg. 89): "Warm days rasied hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet becomes a different person as she spends more time with her new family, and her life begins to change.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #1

5 Comments:

• The woman that came to the house was pregnant.
• Griet's father had lost his eye sight because his kiln exploded.
• The father could tell that the man was good, based on his paintings.
• Griet has still not seen the man of the house.
• She went to her family's butcher at first.

4 Questions:

• Why does the mistress treat her so badly and making her sleep in the dark basement?
• Was she going to start buying the meat from her family's butcher?
• Why did Griet hide when the father came out of the house?
• Why did Griet's father only smile when she mentioned light?

3 Words:

• Flagon(pg. 3): a large bottle for wine
• Stuivers(pg. 9): a former nickel coin of the Netherlands
• Chemises(pg. 24): a woman's loose-fitting

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile(pg. 3): "A woman's bright as polished brass, and a man's low and dark like he wood of the table"
• Motif(pg. 3): Pearls

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet gets to know this new rich family, in which she is the new maid, order to help make money for her family.