Wide Sargasso Sea
By Jean Rhys
5-4-3-2-1
Comments
Jean Rhys was born in Dominica
Jean Rhys is a female. (I thought she was a man)
Someone poisoned her mothers horse; I think it was done because of jealousy.
Her mother has no friends.
I do not understand why her family is this way.
Questions
What are the Emancipation Acts?
Is the looking glass she refers to a mirror?
Why didn’t the others in the community like her mother?
What did the doctor say that made her mother not want to leave the house anymore?
Vocabulary Words
Emancipation-the act or process of setting somebody free or of freeing somebody from restrictions
Marooned-to leave somebody or something somewhere with no means of getting away
Glacis-a slope, especially one that is not very long or steep

Literary Terms
“Our garden was large and beautiful as the one in the bible.” [ simile ]
“One was snaky looking, another like an octopus with long thin brown tentacles bare of leaves hanging from a twisted root” [ imagery ]