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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 6 to chapter 8. Alice see a fish in the livery in the house. she goes and knocks on the door when a frog answers and invites her to play croquet with the queen. annoyed alice opens the door and finds herself in a kitchen. a duchuss nurses a baby, a grinning cat sits on a heath. alice wonders why the cat grins and she learns from the duchuss that it is a chesire cat. she wonders outloud why the cat would be grinning at all.
a clockwork orange ch 4 part 1
alex has a dream about dim and georgie. in the dream alex’s Post-Corrective Adviser walks in his house and warns Alex to keep clear of trouble. he expects alex will have another encounter with the law.
Fathers and Sons- Pg. 130-139
Nikolai believes that he and his son are growing farther apart as the days go on. They argue constantly and don’t see eye to eye on many things regarding the land. Bazarov asks Arkady to go visit the relative that invited them.
A Doll’s House pages 9-21
Krogstad interrupts Nora and has a proposition to make her. Judging by the choice of words, I can successfully identify that Krogstad loaned Nora the money. Krogstad tells Nora to convince Helmer that Krogstad is still cut out to remain in his current position. Nora tells him that she does not have that kind of power, so Krogstad blackmails her. He tells Nora he will tell Helmer about the loan, Nora rebuttals him by saying Helmer would pay it off.
After my suspicion, I have learned that Krogstad did loan Nora the money and that is why she is so tense around him.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray. (37-45
Dorian boasts about the actress Imogen/Sibyl Vane, to henry and asks them if they would come to see her at a show, with him. Dorian is in love with this actress and brags about how beautiful and divine she is. Dorian expresses how she is merely art, and how she isn’t just an actress, shes also a personality.
The Idiot
176-196
Nastassya invites everyone in the drawing room. General Yepanchin tries to leave, but Nastassya tells him to stay. She also gives a long and heartfelt speech. Prince stands up and proposes too Nastassya. Says yes and she flips on Ganya.
Prince proposes to Natassya
Alice in Wonderland
39-48
Alice began to talk to he caterpillar as it sat and smoked its hookah. Alice told him how she has been changing size everyday so rapidly, but the caterpillar said she’ll get use to it. The caterpillar told Alice to repeat “you are old father william”, and so she did. The caterpillar told her it was not right and that she has changed into someone that is not her. The caterpillar got off his mushroom, walked away and said “one side makes you shrink, one side makes you grow”. He was talking about the mushroom, and now Alice sat and wondered which side was which. Alice ate the mushroom and only her neck grew large, a pigeon mistaken her as a serpent. Alice then came across a door 9 inches high and remembered she had mushroom left over, she began to eat it to shrink to the size of that door.
To be continued…
I think a significant event was the caterpillar telling Alice to get use to growing and shrinking, because he knows it’s normal in wonderland.
A Clockwork Orange
Alex and the droogs head to a quiet townside and Alex plans to do the same old sweet talking into the house and attack. The woman does not let Alex in however, and so he resorts to climbing in a window to let the other droogs inside the front door from the locked side, but plans to take the woman by himself. He is countered however, when he finds her in a big and well lit room with all of her cats, which he gets attacked by both her and the cats. He gets very angry by such attack, that he stands up and beats her over the head with a bust he finds in the room. Running out of the house hearing police sirens, he is hit by Dim with a chain, and left, betrayed by his droogies.
Dracula
90-100
Mina finds Jonathan and when she found him he looked pale and a “wreck of himself,” and that the “quiet dignity” which was on his face was no longer there. He doesn’t remember anything that has happened to him. They don’t want to ask him about what happened to him since they don’t want to cause his mind even more harm.
all quiet on the western front pages 60-74
to start they are talking about their lice. they are sitting around a fire getting lice out of all of their heads. the conditions they are in are pretty harsh. himmelstoss gets to the camp and the rumors are proven true of him. he has extremely tormented his recruits and was sent to the front as a punishment. they then get into a conversation about what they would do if the war ended. some of them have no hope of it ending , and others talk about how great it would be. tjaden said he would get revenge on himmelstoss. himmelstoss comes to the men and tells tjaden to stand up and he ignores him. he then goes to get the sergeant major to punish him and as he is gone , tjaden hides. they then talk about how 12 of the 20 people from their class are still there. himmelstoss returns with the sergeant. they refuse to tell them where jaden is hiding. the sergeant then says tjaden must be in the orderly room in the next 1o minutes. Kropp then insults him. later kropp and tjadenare put on trial for insubordinaton. they plead their story of how cruel himmelstoss is and they get a light punishment. tjaden gets 3 days open arrest and kropp only gets one. paul would stop by and hang with them. kat and paul bribe bribe a driver of a munitons wagon with cigarettes to take them back to the house where they heard the geese. paul tries to get the geese and they put up a fight. he holds onto 1 goose and kat kills it. they eat it and keep the feathers for pillows. they take the rest of the food that they didn’t eat to tjaden and kat.
a significant scene in todays reading is kat and tjaden being put on trial and arrested. they do not like himmelstoss and they were being rude and were not listening and got punished for it.