Chapter 2

The woman on the cattle car had a significant influence on him.
Maybe shes like a motherfigure
she seems to care for him and makes him feel like theres hope?
When he needs to talk she helps him through this point in his life.

Fire Symbolizing:

• Pain
• Hell
• death
• Crematoriums
• Burning of faith, memories, etc.
• Hatred
  
• Chaos
• Destruction
  

Cahpter 1- Foreshadowing.

1. The Jews arent aloud to be outside after 6pm.
2. Moishe is taken and left for dead.
3. Many restrictions on the jews
4. Moved to ghettos.
5. The soldiers moved in with Jews.
6. Lost valuables
7. Forced to wear a yellow star.
8. Moishe warns the JEWS. they dont listen
9. German Army Enters city.
10. Gestapo enter the ghettos
11. News announcements on the radio.
12. Elie's Father had a look of horror on his face after the meeting
    

Holocaust

What do i know about the Holocaust?

The Holocaust is extremely depressing.
Jews had to wear stars as identification and were placed in ghettos
jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and mentally disabled people were also targeted.
They ould be transported in cattle cars and placed in concentration camps
Victims were killed, raped, experimented on, and treated horribly in the camps.
Killing consisted of gassing, shootings, cremating, etc.
Killings also existed in ghettos
Krystallnaucht was the burning onf the synagoge "night of the broken glass" many jewish windows shattered
Jewish people has less rights than others Nurembuerg race laws
Jewish children removed from schools
Hitler wanted a perfect race
Hitler was a JEWish man
Mr. Mengele experimented on people and twins basically just killing them in a horrible manor.
The Jewish people were the ones who were persecuted.
Most forced to work and live in chambers where noone could fit.
Their beds were just platforms.
Thousands of people died in this.
Im sure i could think of more. I dont know.

The Lottery Thesis

Mrs. Hutchinson is illustrated as a dynamic character in “The Lottery” through her dialogue, external conflict, and the drastic reactions she takes within the story.

The Chrysanthemums

Prereading - None

Plot - Elisa is planting the flowers, when a wagon comes by. A man comes out and talks to her she gives him the chrysanthemum sprouts. She gives him some pans to fix and he leaves in the wagon, she goes and takes a bath, gets all ready and pretty, sees that the plants are on the ground, ruined.

Questions - Why did she overreact over the flowers?

Why did e get rid of the flowers?

Quotes - "It was an old-spring wagon, with a round canvas top on it."

"She put on the dress which was a symbol of her prettiness

Chrysanthemums:

-self-esteem

-hope

Collective: angsty, rowdy, technologically advanced, bad, rebellious, dramatic, lazy

Women in 1930's: obediant, submissive to men, reserved, quiet, unintelligent, place in the home

Setting: Salinas Valley, Late 1940's on a small farm.

-Grey Flannel fog of winter.

-Black Earth

-bathed in cold sunshine

Characters- woman, loves her husband, but narrow and unexcited.

-lonely, hardworking, strong in mentality, enthusiastic about planting and gullible.

Tinker- Hustler, good salesman, cajoles Eliza to offering him work

Henry Allen- Flat character, puts effort into his work, boring, likes to attempt to pamper his wife.

Conflicts=

P vs. P Eliza vs. Tinker

P vs. Society Eliza vs. Society

P vs. Self Eliza vs. Self

Plot Line=

Climax- Eliza sees the Chrysanthemums on the side of the road

Symbols=

Chrysanthemums- hope, self esteem

Planter Hands- her strength

POV= third person limited [see into elizas thoughts]

Themes=

People who dont believe in themselves trust people easily.

A society can affect us as an individual

A collective identity can hinder a persons actions

Thesis-

Explicit= articulate on every line of an argument

Implicit= less direct

Basic Thesis= Thus, Eliza's perspective on life parallels the lifeless setting of “Chrysanthemums” through the diction of the setting, Eliza's internal conflict and the symbol of the chrysanthemum.