Roar Entry #8

Krik? Krak! Entry #8

5 strong comments about characters and plot
1. Aunt Hermine died because of her high cholesterol.
2. The narrator cannot eat anything with a lot of sodium.
3. The narrator's mother taught herself how to read.
4. Her mother lost six of her seven sisters but cannot go to the funerals because shes not strong enough.
5. The narrator was born when her mother was 33, which is the same age that Jesus died.

4 insightful questions
1. Why is the narrator's mother so scared of things?
2. Why is "salt heavier than 100 bags of shame"?
3. Why hasn't the narrator not been to any PTA meetings?
4. Why did the narrator decide to follow her mother?

3 vocabulary words and definitions; give page #1
1. pg. 145 gait a manner of walking, stepping, or running
2. pg. 145 gawk to stare stupidly; gape
3. pg. 150 a woman who attends to the comfort of passengers on a ship, train, or bus.

2 examples of literary terms; give page #1.
1. pg. 145 "..with pieces of newspapers twisted like rollers in her hair." Simile
2. pg. 148 "..I always think is cockraoches in the jam." Metaphor

1 summary sentence
1.This story is about a daughter following her mother around New York.