Roar Entry #4

Krik? Krak! Entry #4

5 strong comments about characters and plot
1. This woman is a single mother that prostitutes to provide for her son.
2. This woman is very attached to her son because at night she leaves her son with a scarf so he can have something of hers when she’s not there.
3. She doesn’t want her son to find out the truth about her night job.
4. Deep down inside, this woman does not want to do this work, but she has no choice.
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4 insightful questions
1. Why did the father of this woman’s son leave her?
2. How would her son react if he found out about her occupation?
3. Will her son ever catch her?
4. Will this woman stop her ways soon?

3 vocabulary words and definitions; give page #
1. jalousies pg. 83 A blind or shutter having adjustable horizontal slats for regulating the passage of air and light.
2. suitor pg. 85 a man who courts or woos a woman.
3. toil pg. 85 hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.

2 examples of literary terms; give page #1.
1. pg. 83 “I feel as bare as open flesh.” Simile
2. pg. 83 “An older lover who disappeared with the night’s shadows…” personification summary

1 sentence
1. This story was about a woman who struggles with a man vs. himself conflict