The glass castle English 11b

***Make sure you read pages 32-61

Choose 1 of the vignettes (short stories) written by Jeanette Walls from the sections of The Glass Castle we have read so far and write a CER+ER+ paragraph demonstrating how she makes it entertaining. To complete this paragraph, choose 1 or 2 literary techniques that Walls uses to help the story "come alive" and write about how it (they) are effective.

OUTLINE

C: Will include title, author, which vignette you writing about, and the literary techniques she used.

E: Lead-in and quote with technique 1 in it.

R: Effect of the literary style

+: How it makes the story better or more entertaining

E: Lead-in and quote with technique 2 in it.

R: Effect of the literary style

+: How it makes the story better or more entertaining

what is the purpose of the description in this passage from travels with charley?

to explain how he develops friendships with people

to show his fear of the man

to show that people in the bad lands are dangerous

to show the similarity between the man and the place

never read it so if i had i would definitely you sorry.

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english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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