Saturday, May 30, 2009

Anne Frank Remembered JE #2

5 Comments:
  • Miep was having a strong compassion for Henk to the extent possibly getting married.
  • The Radio and the newspaper was the only source of information Jews were receiving.
  • Miep was very lucky throught the marriage process, many times she could have been caught and deported.
  • The discrimination against Jews was becoming a struggle for both the Frank family and Miep.
  • Even with the silence in the room, Miep could sense the feelings and emotions the Frank family was experiencing when they went into hiding.

4 Questions:

  • Why did everything happen at once, the bad news however luckiness?
  • How were Jew supposed to transport themselves? Not everthing required feet.
  • If America was on the Jews side, why didn't they help them fight against Hitler?
  • Was Mr. Frank expecting to one day go into hiding? Reason for already having the secret door room.

3 Words:

  • Frivolity(pg. 55):
  • Impoverization(pg. 80):
  • Demoralized(pg. 86):

2 Literary Terms:

  • Personification(pg.67) "dark wintee settled over us"
  • Imagery(pg. 96): "We were soaked through to the skin"

1 Sentence Summary:

  • Miep finally becomes a Dutch and become closer to the Frank family, she then had to help them in hiding when Margot receives a labor letter.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Anne Frank Remembered JE #1

5 Comments:

  • She was adopted and never lived with her biological parents.
  • This book is from the lady who helped the Frank family go into hiding.
  • Miss Heel was very rude and jealous of Miep.
  • Hitler was a man who was not only agaisnt Jews but those who were not Germans.
  • Miep's Saturday trips to the theater was like our modern day trips to the movies.
4 Questions:

  • Wasn't it a hard thing for her biological parents to just give her up at such a young age?
  • Was she in love with the man that she previously worked with or the man she currently worked with?
  • When does the Frank Family go into hiding?
  • Why is Margot always explained as being pretty more than Anne is? What is it trying to imply?
3 Words:

  • Melancholy(pg. 37): a gloomy state of mind
  • Excursion (pg. 41): a short trip or outing to some place
  • Depravity (pg. 43): the state of being depraved
2 Literary Terms:

  • Imagery(pg. 21): " The horizon always flat and luminous, the winter sunreddish"
  • Personification(pg. 33): "I always fly to work on my secondhand bicycle"
1 Sentence Sumary:

  • Baascially Miep is introduced and her lifestyle is explained in detail, mentioning the things she went through based on the fact that she lived with adoptive parents.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

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:

  • Bulleted ListGriet 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.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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.