Tuesday Siesta Think Questions 1-2?

1.) The daughter and woman belong to the low social class. They are very poor as it states in the fourth paragraph, “She bore the conscientious serenity of someone accustomed to poverty.” We are told directly in this sentence that they are poor. In the third paragraph it also states that they wore “severe and poor mourning clothes.” The author might want us to know about their social class so that we can know their desperate situation. Also, the purpose of character descriptions in any story is to create a bond between the reader and the writer.

2.) The mother in the story has very good emotional control. In paragraph 52 it states, “The priest looked first at the woman and then at the girl, and realized with a kind of pious amazement that they were not about to cry.” The priest is shocked to see that the woman and her daughter will not cry and this shows that they both have emotional control. Furthermore, in paragraph 41 it states, “The priest scruntinized her. She stared at him with quiet self-control, and the Father blushed.” Her self-control is so immense that it causes the priest to blush. Another thing we find out about the mother is that she shows pride in herself and that she holds great respect for her children despite their actions. When the priest asks the mother if she tried to “get him on the right track” she says that her son “was a very good man.” She defends her son even though he got murdered after he tried to rob someone’s house.  

what did the protagonist say?

hmm, sadly there is no dialogue. there is no place in the story where he is talking to anyone. it's more of just describing what he eats and where he sleeps. you have to become anne frank, give details of where you are, what other folks look like, how the environment is. have a little bit of dialogue tell of what people are specifically saying. anne frank talked about her entire household including the people, the objects, the lighting, the food they ate, and even the smell in the air. there has to be more to your diary entries, the whole story in its current state is only about peter van daan, the food, the sounds, and where he sleeps. also he seems to be writing only once a year yet more than that happened from day to day. for a friend, i can you write it out, if you want.