Augusta, Gone #5

5. So in this chapter, Augusta comes back home.

4. Things between her and mom become muchhh better.

3. She gets clean!

2. Augusta realizes what she was doing wrong, and what she needs to do in order to get better.

1. She went back to school, and everyone was happy againnnnnn.


4. So Augusta is finally clean, 100%?

3. What are the thoughts that her mother is having?

2. Does Augusta think she can keep it up?

1. What's up with the father?


3. coontends - to strve in opposition

2. attain - to reach

1. purveypr - a person who provides


2. ' he had a nice buzz' - alliterations

1. ' the guy'woos'the girl' - ??


1. So in the end of the book, Augusta comes back home from the camp thingy, and shes all better, and everyone lives happily ever after.

Augusta, Gone #4

5. So Augusta goes into the 'brat camp' and they teach her some lessons there...

4. First, she kind of tried to kill herself, but then she decided to give it a chance.

3. I think that if i was her, i wouldnt act so childish.

2. She should have more respect towards her mother and the rest of her family.

1. The mother thought that things were finally working out!


4. Will Augusta stay clean?

3. Are the connections between them two going to improve?

2. Why was Augusta's brother smoking weed with her, if he dont want her to do drugs?!

1. So why didnt Augusta kill herself...?


3. suppressed - to put an end to forcibly

2. hemmed - an edge or border on a piece of cloth

1. influx - coming in


2. " theres an air of aloofness about them - idiom

1. "Throughout the night freight trains huffed into the park" - metaphor


1. I think this chapter is the happies chapter, because Augusta goes into the rehav thing and she gets better and has a different perspective on things.

Augusta, Gone #2

5. The mother was telling us about how her daughter changed.
4. this reminds me of this one time when i was the same way, and i didnt get along with my mom.
2. I wonder whats going to happen next.
1. I think if i was the mother, i would never let my daughter act that way.

4. So when is her mother going to take action?
3. Don't you think that if the mother really wanted to change things, she would have done it already?
2. Is Augusta ever going to respect her mother?
1. Would you let your child act like that?

3. procured - to produce
2. heyday - prime time
1. lam - to escape hastily

2.
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1. In this chapter, it basically states all the things that the mother sees, and how her daughter (Augusta) is changing due to drug and alcohol abuse.

Augusta, Gone #1

5. Augusta was a troubled teenager.

4. he decided to pull out a knife on her family.

3. She was not communicating with her mother at all.

2. Her mother was really worried about her.

1. She decided to get her some help.

4. So what is her mother going to do?

3. How is Augusta going to react?

2. How does Augusta's brother feel about all this?

1. Is Augusta going go respect her mother?

3. persistent - lasting or enduring tanaciously

2. reminisce - to recall past experiences

1. tricorne - having three horns

2. 'ask her how old she is' - alliteration

1. 'humming hungover' - alliteration

1. The whole book starts with Augusta's mother telling stories from the past, about how she was a perfect child, and then she changed and wasnt herself anymore.

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5. Comments

1. Antoinette really wants to win Rochester back
2. So according to some laws, a woman belongs to their husband?
3. Wow, Antoinette seems really desperate.
4. The woman had a point by saying just talk to him and if he dont wana be with you let him go.

4. Questions

1. Why didnt the lady want to give her the potion?
2. Why do you think Antoinette can't just talk to Rochester?
3. What would Rochester think about all this?
4. Would you want to have someone give you some creepy potion to have you fall in love with them?

3. Vocabulary

1. albeit: although
2. ideographs: graphs sumbolizing something
3. hibiscus: a woody plant

2. Literary Terms

1. Personafication: "Soul of darkness"
2. metaphor: "Paper is more patient than man"

1. Overview Sentence

1. In this chapter, Antoinette tries really hard to win Rochester back, and she decided to turn to this other woman for help who has some love potion that will help her...

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5. Comments

1. I think its kinda messed up how Rochester doesnt love Antoinette anymore, since they just got married
2. Wow, he dont remember his own wedding...
3. Aww he thinks shes so prettyyyy.
4. So he only wanted to get with her, but he wasnt really in love with her, but yet he still married her.
5. I thnk its cute how they spend some time together even though things between them two arent that great.

4. Questions

1. So why Rochester really didnt love Antoinette?
2. What's going to happen with them two now?
3. What would happen if them two divorced? whould she move again?
4. Can't rochester at least pretend to care more about her?...

3. Vocabulary

1. cobblestoned: a naturally rounded stone, larger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder
2. veranda: back porch
3. mahogany: the wood itself

2. Literary Terms

1. Onomatopoeia: "clap"
2. Flashback: "I remember those old nights when we spent siting around drinking wine."

1. Overview Sentence

1. In this chapter, we get more into Rochester and Antoinette's relationship, and how he does not love her anymora but shes still madly in love with him...

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5. Comments

1. Antoinette and Rochester get married in Jamaica.
2. They meet Caroline on their way to the honeymoon place.
3. It sucks it was rainin on their honeymoon huh...
4. Antoinette shows Rochester the house, but he doesnt like it
5. Rochester becomes independent on his father

4. Questions

1. Why does Rochester find the house awkward?
2. Why the mango tree?
3. Why does Rochester refuse to come inside Antoinette's friend's house?
4. Why doesn't he trust Cristophine?

3. Vocabulary

1. gouge: a chisel with a rounded, toughlike blade
2. shingly: consisting of or covered with shingle
3. malingant: disposed to cause harm, suffering

2. Literary Terms

1. metaphor: "...the streets were waxed in a paper-thin layer of wet red leaves."
2. Alliteration: “…sounds so simple.”

1. Overview Sentence

1. So Antoinette finds a house that she likes, but Rochester doesn't like it and thinks the whole situation is kinda awkward since he cheated on her.

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5. Comments

1. So after the fire, they just all get seperated because they have nowhera to live.
2. Antoinette gets teased at in her new school.
3. I don't like how Antoinette's parents visit her every once in a while.
4. It makes me sad, how noone went to Antoinette's mother's funeral...
5. This book kind of reminds me of my friend, whos house burnt down.

4. Questions

1. So wait, where exactly does Antoinette live now?
2. How do you think you would deal with students in a new school teasing you like that?
3. Do you think they could still pull off living all together?
4. What do you think Antoinette would do if she didnt meet Sandi?

3. Vocabulary

1. rheumatism: any disorder of the extremities or back
2. imperturbable: incapable of being upset or agitated
3. perpetual: continuing or enduring forever

2. Literary Termss

1. Setting: "Everything was brightness, or dark. The walls, the blazing colours of the flowers in the garden, the nuns'...."
2. Dialogue: 'Do you think they'll come' I said doubtfully. 'One of them will. I'm certain of that.'

1. Overview Sentence

1. In this chapter Antoinette starts new school, and then she moves out of the convent because of Mr. Mason.

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5. Comments

1. Antoinette's mom gets married! And she's the bridesmaid!
2. Annette and her husband want to move, well at least she does, because she feels like noone likes her in the neighborhood.
3. So their whole house burned down, and most of them saved themselves.
4. Annette flipped out on her husband because he trusted blacks as being their servants..how ruuuude.
5. ...i still dont understand...who started the fire

4. Questions

1. So wait, who started the fire?
2. Why was she yelling at her husband for hiring blacks?
3. Why wasn't the neighborhood safe anymore?
4. Wat she gona do with the husband now...?

3. Vocabulary

1. obeah: a form of belief involving sorcery
2. righteous: acting in an upright, moral way
3. glacis: a gentle slope

2. Literary Terms

1. narration: "There was some tree derns near, green and damp, one of those was smouldering too."
2. dialogue: 'She left him, she ran away and left him alone to die.'

1. Overview Sentence

1. So in this chapter, the family house gets burned down, and everyone gets out alive but Annette starts blaming her husband for everything, and they realize that the neighborhood isn't safe anymore

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5. Comments

1. A little white girl was teasing Antoinette because she was colored and the wouldn't leave her alone...how rude.


2. Antoinette makes a new friend, Tia, and they become real good friends.


3. Antoinette's mother is happy that she finally made some new friends, and she decided to stay away from her private life so she doesn't ask any questions.


4. The two new friends got into a fight, and Tia runs away from Antoinette..


5. Her mother and her start getting frustruated because they feel not good enough because of their clothes being gross and dirty.

4. Questions

1. So what did the new neighbors want from them?


2. What did Antoinette feel like when she finally made a new friend?


3. Is her new friend going to ever talk to her again?


4. I don't think the only reason why Tia ran away from her was because she cheated in a game, but also because of her physical apperance..do u?

3. Vocabulary

1. marooned: to abandon or leave without aid or resources


2. patois: jargon


3. calabash: a tropical American tree

2. Litarary Terms

1. allusion: "I never looked at any strange negro."
2. monologue: "He drank himself to death. Many's the time when - well! And all those women! She never did anything to stop him - she encouraged him. Presends and smiles for the bastards every Christmas. ...."

1. Overview Sentence

1. This chapter is just about Antoinette and her new friend...and how people came to their house, and they felt left out because they were colored and they thought they were worse than everyone else because of their clothes being all gross and shaggy.

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5. Comments

1. So the book starts out with the summary of Antoinette's family and their past life.
2. Her and her family don't fit in the Spanish Town, which is the white people area.
3. Antoinette didn't have any friends, and her only friend in the neighborhood. Mr. Luttrell, out of nowhere shot his dog and left the town.
4. Everyone says that Antionette is wayyy too pretty for her husband...
5. This is similar to what we read about in class, which was the whole racism thing, and how people of certain races and colors don't fit in their community so they're kind of being left out.

4. Questions

1. So after her only friend left her, she had noone else that she trusted in the whole neighborhood?
2. Why doesn't their family want to visit them?
3. Who killed (kidnapped) Mr. Luttrell?
4. Right, so if the whole neighborhood is white, why is it called the Spanish Town?

3. Vocabulary:

1. solicitor: a person having charge of the legal business
2. feckless: ineffective
3. emancipated: freed

2. Literary Terms:

1. Narrator: "and then she falls passionately in love with him: throughout she views him with a kind of hypnotized terror" (p.7)
2. Accent: " 'because she pretty like pretty self' Christophine said"

1. Overview Sentence:

1. So the book starts out with Antoinette being really pretty, and people thinking that shes way too pretty for her husband, and her family is the only colored family in the whole neighborhood and they are being discriminated against.

bel canto

so far ive only read the first few pages of the book im reading because i decided to change my books since i didnt like the other one. i also read the back of it and some summaries about it. its basically about an attack on this party because people wanted to kidnap the president, but the president wasnt there cuz he stayed home and decided to watch tv. lol. so they locked the wole place down and wouldnt leave untill they had the president...so far this is all i know about the book but im really looking forward to reading some more tonight!