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- Identify the Title of your book
- Identify the pages read today.
- Write a short summary of the reading.
- Discuss at least one significant event from the day’s reading.
alice in wonderland chapter 7 to 9. she finds the march hare, the hatter and the dormouse sitting all together at one end of a large table. the mouse sit between the other 2 , fast asleep. they are disgreeable from the start and alices conversation with them is confusing even by wonderland standards. they contradict alice at every turn, correcting her with cinfusing arguments that have their own logic. much of the conversation is about time. the hatters watch which only tells the day of the month is broken. the hatter also tells alice that time stopped working for him about a month ago.
a clockwork orange part 1 ch 5
alex wakes up late in the evening and tells his parents he’s off to work. they ask him where he works but he does not answer. and just points out how he never asks for money. his dad says he had a dream about alex and how he worries about him. alex just gives him money and tells him to by a drink for his mom.
Alice in Wonderland
59-67
Alice walked into the march hare’s house and seen the march hare and hatter having tea. Alice then sat down at the table they were at and the march hare told her to “have some wine”. Alice said “there is no wine, just tea, how rude of you to ask when something is not there”. The march hare said “just as it is rude for you to come somewhere you were not invited. Then they begin telling Alice to solve a riddle but she soon gives us. She asks why there is always so much tea cups everywhere and they tell her it’s always tea time in wonderland. The dormouse begins telling them three a story about three children. Alice found herself back in the hallway with the garden door and she went and grabbed the golden key first his time and then ate the mushroom to make her shrink, then she got into the beautiful garden.
To be Continued….
I think a significant event was Alice being able to get into the garden because she has been trying the whole story so far.
Fathers and Sons- Pgs. 140-151
The family goes to the governor’s ball. Arkady meets a woman by the name of Odintsova. He is amazed by her. As they talk she explains to him that she has seen and heard about his father and wants to meet the man himself. Arkady tells her that they will come visit her in the near future. The ball ends at 4 A.M.
The Idiot.
197-255
Prince leaves and nobody sees him for 6 months. Prince writes 2 letters to Kolya asking if she is happy. Rogozhin tells Prince Nat. cheated on him. So Rogozhin beats her. Prince wants her and doesn’t understand why she is gonna marry him.
Prince says he has feelings
The Stranger
47-63
Masson invites all of them to go to the beach. While they are there they see a bunch of Arabs. They ended up getting into a big fight. Then, Raymond gets injured and he ends up going to the hospital for his cut that he gets but it ends up not to be as bad as they had thought it was going to be. Then the arabs show up again holding a knife up to one of the men trying to harm them.
A Doll’s House pages 23-28
Krogstad decides to finally tell Nora he knows the lie in the contract. He mentions her father and tiptoes around her admitting she forged his signature. As we know, Nora’s father was very ill and close to death when this contract was made. Nora forged her father’s signature for the contract since he had already passed by the time she received it. Nora is highly frustrated with Krogstad and his demands, he sees himself out as she tries to keep her composure. Nora resumes some needlework on the couch but throws it down out of frustration. Nora starts dressing the tree to help blow off some steam as Helmer walks in. He tells her he saw Krogstad and tells her not to lie to him about it. They both agree to stop talking about it. Nora decides to still try to sway Helmer into letting Krogstad keep his job when Nora finds out he also forged someone’s name. Helmer tells Nora how this deceiving act and lies can poison the atmosphere at home and how a mother can be most deceitful. Helmer goes into his study nd Nora panics, thinking she is making a toxic home.
Thes pages sho me how caring Nora is and how she can act to play a part. Around her husband she acts more dull witted to get his approval, but in reality she is rather smart and can think for herself. She is a caring mother and I can tell that everything she is doing is for her family.
Alice in Wonderland
49-59
Alice came upon two footman and she watched the exchange letters to each other. Then Alice proceeded to the door and tried to knock but the fish footman told her there was no use in knocking. Alice did not like hearing that she was not allowed in the duchesses house , so she opened the door herself and went right in. The duchess was on a three legged stool nursing a baby, and the cook was over the fire cooking. The duchess gave Alice the baby to nurse while she was playing crochet with the Queen. The baby then turned into a pig and Alice let it go into the woods. She then came upon the smiling cat and asked which way to go and he told her one way was the hatter and the other was the march hare. The cat asked Alice where the baby has gone and she said it turned into a pig and the cat said “I thought it would” and then the cat disappeared. Alice set off to the march hare’s house.
To be Continued……
I think a significant event was the cat saying he figured the baby would turn into a pig, because it proves very strange things always happen.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray-pages 46-50
Dorian was set to be married to Sibyle Vane, the girl hes in love with. Sibyl was very happy, and claimed to be in love. Her mother was not pleased, and told her acting is far more important than love. Sibyl’s brother james is off to Austrailia to try and pay off his mother and sisters debts.
A Clockwork Orange
Alex wakes up in an interrogation room with 4 officers, who all beat up Alex when he asks for a lawyer on his behalf. P.R Deltoid then walks in staring at Alex with lifelessness as if Alex was a thing instead of a person, and he tells Alex that he will speak on his behalf. Deltoid then spits in Alex´s face and walks out of the room. Afterwards, Alex fights off two prisoners trying to molest him and survives the night, imagining new lyrics to Ode To Joy by Ludwig Van Beethoven, his favorite composer. He then wakes up and is taken to an office where he discovers that the lady whom which he beat over the head with a bust had died.
All quiet on the western front pages 75-102
The second company goes back to to the front 2 days earlier then expected. all their way there , they see some crazy things that the war has ruined such as a schoolhouse destroyed by gun fire and a pile of coffins beside the school house. they try to ignore the fact that the coffins could very well be for them. their weapons are starting to get worn out while the english has just strengthened their artillery. the soldiers they are fighting are well fed and have tons of food. they take all blades off their bayonets because anyone caught with one is instantly killed. it says kat is in bad spirits and that worries paul because he always has a sense of what is going to happen. they have not been attacked yet but they are being bombed. they cant even get out of their dugout to get food. they dugout is hit directly with a bomb. the concrete held up against the small bomb. a recruit leaves the dugout and before paul can save him , he is killed very quickly. the french attackers are starting to come. paul and the rest of his soldiers jump up and throw grenades and start shooting their machine guns where the french suffer heavy loses from this. the germans reach enemy lines. they try to destroy as much as they can before grabbing as much provisions they can and then they go back and relax for an hour. they eat all the food they have stolen and it is way better than the food they get. paul is standing watch and he starts to have flashbacks of sorrowful memories. he has become permanently numb.
a significant scene in today’s reading is the attack in battle. they are sent back to the front 2 days early and they are getting bombed. they then start to get attacked by soldiers they fight back strongly , winning and reaching enemy lines and then stealing their food and go back to their bunker.
Dracula
125-135
Dr. Seward goes to Lucy’s house and was scared to disturb her. He knocked multiple times and there was no answer. He thinks that because there was no one answering the door that it was a house of death. He met Van Hellsing. They begin to break into a house and find four servant woman lying on the floor.