Journal Entry #5

5

• He now has his own place and can't be any happier. He bought his house in Maitland. He says that the house looked like one showed in MTV's Cribs.
• Also, he has now become the parent of two teen aged boys; Jeff and Martin.
• At the age of 29, the coaches are already seeing that Amaechi's abilities and getting weaker.
• Unfortunatly, he was sent packing because Sloan didn't understand him, he didn't understand his sexuality. This is just not a reason to discriminate because his sexuality doesn't ahev anything to do with his ability and gays know how to respect.
• It's been four years since Amaechi retired and he's been living in London and he's having the time of his life. He mentions that though he is extremely private specially with his sexuality, he had the courage to celebrate the Manchester gay pride parade with some friends. "After all, there is still much work to be done" (290).

4

• How did Martin and Jeff feel living with Amaechi?
• Did Amaechi being gay bother them?
• To this day is Amaechi afraid of his preference?
• Is Amaechi now more confortable with his life style?
• How did he think Americans compared to Europeans reacted to him being gay?

3

• Surrogate (224): a person appointed to act for another
• Demystify (224): to rid of mystery
• Innuendo (274): an indirect intimation of a person

2

• "Lord knows, given my teenage drinking exploits" (225). Man vs. Self.
• "His brain waves are constantly humming" (233). Personification.

1

• Amaechi went through a lot, but fortunately persevered through it all. I think that he gives those who are gays or lesbians a talk of his life and tells them not to be afraid because he now feels more relieved and they can live a better and a healthier life.

Journal Entry #4

5

• The NBA start liked playing in Britain because there the people didn't really cover basketball and there was no distraction or attention their personal lives.
• While in Manchester, Amaechi was invited to a gay club by a girl friend and she asked him to be kind, not knowing his likings. While at the club a guy came up to him and told him he knew he was gay.
• Amaechi is now getting a lot of recognition and being asked to sign contracts for larger amounts now up to $17 million.
• Amaechi is doing some flashbacks after he sees so many kids and he remembers that during the summers the family would go on camping trips because his mom worked so much.
• Amaechi decided to pass on one contract but he new there would be others and he was already financially set.

4

• How did he react to people who tried to get into details about his personal life?
• What did Amaechi think when the man came up to him so randomly?
• Did he ever want to go to a club again?
• What were the contractor's reaction when Amaechi said no?

3

• Forays (175): a quick or sudden attack
• Itinerant (176): traveling from place to place
• Jettisoning (220): to cast

2

• "There were many things I wanted to talk about with the beared, leather-jacketed Jackson" (208). Imagery.
• "Tired eyes tinged with envy, and I hate to admit I took some small satisfaction from it" (208), Imagery.

1

• Amaechi has been getting his mind out of the negative stuff and is learning to live his life.

Journal Entry #3

5

• Amaechi is in college and he has lost his mother.
  
• He is very down at this time in his life and all he wants to do is eat sweets. During this time was when he discovered the "American delicacies; Twinkies".
  
• There was a high possibility that Amaechi would not get drafted to the NBA and this would have been very bad because he would only see himself as a failure!
  
• Amaechi got to the NBA !
  
• He decided to play in Athens with former start John Salley.
  

4

• Where was he when his mother died?
  
• Who supported him during his mom's death?
  
• What would Amaechi have become if he didn't make it to the NBA?
  
• How can someone feel so insecure for such a long period of time?
  

3

• Chronicling (129): history
  
• Arsenal (132): a collection of supplies
  
• Drachmas (155): any of various modern weights
  

2

• "Mum's death still weighed heavily-and so did all those Twinkies" (127). Man vs. Self.
  
• "But the return of the baby fat meant my phone might not ring on draft day" (132). Man vs. Self.
  

1

• Amaechi's life is at least improving somewhat. He needs to keep turning all his negatives into positives.
  

Journal Entry #2

5

• Mr. Amaechi lived a very harsh childhood. His family was constantly moving and his mother had to be very aware because his father always wanted to kidnap them and take them to Africa.
  
• The kids never got along with their father and when they heard about his death they didn't really care. Amaechi even refused to speak at his funeral.
  
• Amaechi was constantly made fun of because of his race and the way he looked. He was very big and thick and during swimming class the kids called him whale. This is one reason as to why he is very insecure with himself and his body.
  
• Amaechi was at an all boys school and then he started his interest for basketball. Here he also found out that the opposite sex was no longer in his mind.
  
• Up to this day Amaechi is very insecure about his body because all of the comments have left him scared. He is a retired basketball player and used to play with Michael Jordan and even when he had a photo shoot for the NBA he refused to show his body.
  

4

• When did he tell his mother he was gay?
  
• What did his mom think about him not attending the funeral?
  
• Did his father's family start talking trash to his mother because he didn't attend the funeral?
  
• Why did Amaechi chose not to become a doctor anymore?
  

3

• Retrospect (64): contemplation of the past
  
• Euphemistically (64): a vague expression for a harsh thought
  
• Marauding (79): roaming around
  

2

• "As a brown kid raised by a white mother" (68). Man vs. Society.
  
• "It seemed everyone I met had been touched by gun violence" (73). Man vs. Society.
  

1

• Amaechi has always had a hard time finding himself.
  

Journal Entry 1 [ Man in the Middle by John Amaechi ]

5

• John Amaechi is a newly retired NBA basketball player.
• A British basketball scout was the one who discovered John Amaechi when he was 17 and asked him whether he'd be interested in basketball.
• His mother told him "[let it] be a guide not just to fame and fortune but to an ethic of good works" (Amaechi).
• Him and his mother had to move when he was only four years old because of his father's threats, "fear about my disgraced father's threats to hunt us down and make us disappear" (Amaechi).
• Unfortunately, Amaechi's mother died and she was always very silent so that her kids wouldn't know about the problems and have a hard time. He learned about most of the things going on after her death.
  

4

• Did Amaechi try looking for his father?
  
• Did he ever hear his mom speaking to his father?
  
• What would he tell his mother today if she were alive today?
  
• Did playing basketball make him feel free from his problems?
  

3

• Cacophony (2): harsh discordance of sounds
• Stewardesses (6):a woman flight attendant
  
• Stoicism (7): insensibility
  

2

• "I was to use whatever basketball status I achieved to become a role model" (4). Person vs. Self.
• "I was sheltered from the reality of escape in the cover of darkness" (6). Person vs. self.

1

• It's unbelievable knowing that people we see today with everything, having a past where they had nothing.
  

MOVIE

• Close up of Griet in the kitchen when a lady and a man appear in the kitchen
• Birds eye view of Griet when she's getting her things together
• Midium shot when Griet is cleaning the window
• Low angle shot of Griet's fearful face while the patrons make out
• Close up of Griet's face with the tear in her eye
• Then close up of the painter's face because they are talking
• A lot of fades from one day to another
• Long shot of Catherina
• High angle shot when Griet is getting her ears pierced
• Stablishing shot of Griet serving her master
• Griet is a lot of the time around the house alone and many of the shots are midium shots most of them enphasizing her face
• Fades from one place to another
• Extreme close up of the brush on the board

Journal Entry #5

5

• Griet has seen the painting of her and it's just of her face and shoulders. Though showing the new clothing she was wearing she mentions it looked like a "Griet from another town".
  
• The painter says there's something missing in the picture and Griet thinks so too.
  
• Catharina who didn't really like Griet, found the answer to the puzzle. So she brought out her pearls that everyone in the house loved.
  
• Griet is piercing her ear and later it gets infected but she still pushes the needle in because she needs to wear the pearl earrings so that the painting could be complete.
  
• Now Griet is part of one of the most famous and impirtant art works her patron's had to make.
  

4

• What's the painting missing?
  
• Why does Griet not want to wear the pearl earrings?
  
• Does Griet like her patron?
  
• Griet just did something with Pieter?!?!
  

3

• Plodded (194): to walk heavily
  
• Taverns (196): a public house for travelers
  
• Groping (226): stumbling
  

2

• "The light falling across my face but the left side of me in shadow" (191). Imagery.
  
• "I did not wrap the blue and yellow cloth differently or hide the top of my chemise. I did not bite my lips to make the redder, or suck in my cheeks. I did not set out colors I thought he might use" (192). Imagery.
  

1

• It's fascinating how life revolves. Griet went from a maid to an asisting model in the same house she was being a maid.
  

Journal Entry #4

5

• Pieter brings the pearls and earrings to Catharina every evening.
  
• Someone has taken something and the do it to get Griet in trouble and she thinks they won't stop this until they see her gone.
  
• Griet thinks she won't see her grandmother's comb ever again but to her surprise she gets it back and it gets thrown at her. The following Sunday, when she went to see her family, she gave the comb back to her mother and told her that the comb was to fine for a maid to keep. I'm starting to feel bad for Griet it's like her self-esteem is going down too.
  
• Griet's mother tell her that she has been hearing gossip about her in the market. It's being said that he master is going to paint her.
  
• They're painting Griet! He doesn't want to paint her how she is dressed as a maid and Griet tells him that she is a maid thaqt maybe he shouldn't be painting her and that she's not going to wear his wife's clothing as much as she'd love to feel the fur in her neck. He replies to her that he will just paint her as the first time he saw her. Just her! =]
  

4

• Why all this hatred towards Griet?
  
• Why is the patron only doing paintings with only one person not with multiple like he used to?
  
• What will Griet's mother say when she sees the paiting of her daughter?
  
• What will be the reaction of everyone in the house when they see the painting since they dislike Griet?
  

3

• Tingeing (146): tint
  
• Bravado (156): a swaggering display of courage
  
• Harpsichord (168): an instruments with strings
  

2

• "Cornelia once again trailing behind her like a cat thinking it is about to be fed" (146). Simile.
  
• "Now my shoulders twitched of their own accord, as if I were shaking off a shawl" (186). Simile.
• "Van Ruijven's mouth is looser than a whore's purse" (189). Methaphord.
  

1

• Griet is loving the painting life and she is now being painted something she had not thought about since she was "just a maid".
  

Journal Entry #3

5

• Griet is with the patron and he is painting and teaching her about the colors and the way he paints.
  
• Now Griet sees more than one color on everything even light.
  
• Griet has now been moved to sleep in the attic. She likes it better there and fells more comfortable, also because there are no Crucifixions. But she feels lonely because the girls at least used to visit her in the cellar.
  
• Griet is home and she is speaking to her parents. They tell her that they have lost her even since she became a maid.
  
• Catharina doesn't like Griet and is always suspicious of her.
  

4

• Is Griet going to become a painter now?
  
• Will her parents want her to come back home already?
• Will She fire Griet because she doesn't like her?
  
• Will the patron be on Griet's defense or his wife's?
  

3

• Embroidered (97): to decorate with ornaments
  
• Linseed (97): used for source of oil
  
• Feebly (103): physically week
  

2

• "No one but Cornelia had become suspicious" (102). Man vs Man.
  
• "the tears that pricked my eyes" (118). Personification.
• "My heart grew heavy like a stone in my chest" (142). Simile.
  

1

• Griet and the patron are getting along and he's teaching her about the colors and painting.
  

Journal Entry #2

5

• Griet is beginning to feel comfortable in the new house where she is serving as a maid.
  
• Griet asks why there isn't another maid or cook since the family has so much money. I think her patrons are going to be a bit mad at her when they hear this.
  
• Griet is often alone and when she's not she barely speaks to the girls and some of them try to intimidate her.
  
• Grite feels ashamed of giving her back to her sister!
  
• While going to buy meat, Griet is told that there is a plague in her home town and she is now very scared!
• Griet and the patron are now getting along well and speaking to each other.
  

4

• Does she complaining about being left alone to finish most of the work?
  
• Are the girls ways going to make Griet want to leave the house?
  
• Can Griet's parents visit her?
  
• How does her family feel about her now?
  

3

• Steadied (51): firmly placed
  
• Quarantine (62): isolation to help prevent the spread of a disease
  
• Rummaged (62): to search thoroughly through
  

2

• "The plane trees lining the canal stood perfectly still, like sentries waiting for me" (45). Simile.
  
• "Playful and funny one moment, then turn the next, like a purring cat who bites the hand stroking it" (52). Simile.
  

1

• Griet is living in a new home, but still has to worry about her family back home.
  

Girl With a Pearl Earring Journal Entry #1

5

• The protagonist of the novel is Griet.
  
• Griet and her family are in need of money, so she has to go live at Cathernia's house in Oude Langendijck and work for them as a maid. She will get paid eight stuivers a day.
  
• Griet has to sleep in a cellar and she notices a small picture of Christ on the cross and she finds it disturbing. She then thinks about changing the picture!
  
• Now she sees a yellow satin and gets scared to her surprise the patron's wife comes in and tell her that everyone gets scared when they see these kind of paintings.
  
• Griet feels a relief that she gets to go home and see her family and hopes she will be doing so every Sunday.
  

4

• What would happen if Griet refused to go?
  
• Are eight stuivers a day a good quantity or just enough?
  
• Why does Griet find crosses disturbing?
  
• Will Agnes soon be sent off to work away too?
  

3

• Stuivers (6): a former nickle coin of the Netherlands
  
• Kiln (10): an oven
  
• Tapestry (31): a fabric consisting of colored threads of woven by hand to make a design
  

2

• "The women's face was like an oval serving plate" (4). Simile.
  
• "After she had gone her face lingered like perfume" (43). Simile.

1

• Griet is now working away from and trying to adjust to a new family.
  

Journal Entry #10

5

• The drunk and Ozzie are good friends now.
  
• Ozzie is in the convent and those killing words keep on haunting him.
  
• Ozzie has an uncle and he has come to see him!
  
• His uncle has told him that he has to kill him!
• The boy has died.
  
• Susan and Meredith came to a conclusion that Paul's story was fiction. But, Susan thinks Meredith is hiding something.
• Susan is very pensive and doesn't understand why Paul would have wanted someone to read his manuscript during this year, years after his death. I think it was for the next fader to read it and not make silly mistakes because he did say he would try to protect the next fader like his uncle Adelard didn't.
  

4

• Does Ozzie's uncle know where his father is?
  
• Will Ozzie hate this uncle and say it's too late I don't need you now?
  
• Why has he come to kill Ozzie?
  
• Does Meredith have the ability to fade?
  

3

• Forlorn (285): desolated; unhappy
  
• Hoarse (286): a harsh, low sound
  
• nimble (293): quick to understand
  

2

• "His voice was like a whisper in a cave, echoing and hoarse and raspy, filled with a terrible urgency" (286). Simile.
  
• "The convent loomed in the night like a dinosaur at rest, silhouetted against a sky bright with summer moonlight" (287). Simile.
  

1

• Fade leaves us with a very imaginative thought. So who's the next to fade and who's keeping the secret now?
  

Journal Entry #9

5

• Ozzie is the new fader!
  
• Ozzie doesn't seem too happy about his ability to fade as Paul did at first. Ozzie worries more about the bad things that can occur rather than living a fairytale life.
  
• His way of thinking has much to do with the way he was treated as a child. He does everything with caution.
  
• It is said that Ramsey is a town where there is now bad luck and they compare him to it.
  
• He has come across a man in the streets of Ramsey and he's telling him about the "haunted town". The man can barely walk and is holding a bottle in his hand. He is a drunk.
  
• A voice is telling Ozzie to kill! Deep down he knows it's not him.
  

4

• Is he going to stay in Ramsey?
  
• Can he just fade and appear back at another place without feeling tired?
• Since the drunk saw him fade, will he tell everyone?
  
• Will Ozzie end up killing the sister?

3

• Aura (259): a persuasive quality in the atmosphere
  
• Staggering (276): overwhelm
  
• Discordant (277): disagreeing
  

2

• "The morning aromas of coffee, bacon, and other fried foods wafted through an open window" (289). Allusion.
  
• "A sleepy town, a town that went to bed early" (268). Personification.
  

1

• The fade is getting to Ozzie! With the past on his mind and the ability to fade, Ozzie is not thinking the right way because he's now thinking about killing.
  

Journal Entry #8

5

• Now, the story about Ozzie is being told.
• Ozzie was a boy who had moved to lived with nuns in a convent because his stepfather use to beat him, his mother was a drunkie and he always heard strange noises from his parents and the beating the "man" did to his mother.
• One day, his mother was bruised up and bleeding. She came into Ozzies room and told him that she had to leave, but she would be back. She never did.
• When his stepdad found out she was gone he gave Ozzie the worst beating of his life.
• "Your Pa is poor and your Ma is a whore. That was the refrain he heard in school" (229). The kids stopped teasing him after his mom was already dead.
• I think Ozzie is the next fader! "He held up his hand and couldn't see his hand. Could see the room, the floor" (238).
• There's a stranger in town and he's looking for Ozzie!

4

• Why didn't she take Ozzie with her to protect him?
• Will Ozzie become a violent person with no feelings after everything he has been through?
• Is Ozzie the next fader?
• So, no one taught Ozzie how to fade?

3

• Convent (228): a community of people devoted to religious life under a superior
• Sniveling (233): to weep or cry
• Debris (242): the remains of anything broken

2

• "She was old herself, brown spots on the backs of her hands, face wrinkled like a crumpled paper bag" (229). Simile.
• "Until Ozzie fell asleep as cold dawn touched the windows" (231). Personification.

1

• Ozzie has learned to endure and is now beginning to have simptoms that Paul was having as he bagan his fade!

Journal Entry #7

5

• Now, the story is being told from Paul's perspective. He began by telling about the year (1963) and the place where he lived, Frenchtown.
• Paul tells that each generation has a touch of the personality and looks of the generation before. Such as his sister Yvonne, who "had a touch of Rosanna in her wild colors and easy ways with people" (197).
• Paul and Rosanna speak about Rosanna's pregnancy that no one knew about. She feels horrible because she doesn't know where her son is.
• Paul reminisces about the fade and how at first it was uncontrollable. There were many occasions where he had to excuse himself because he was going to fade. After a period of time, the fade began to "diminish" Paul.
• Paul begun to hate the fade. " 'The hell with the fade,' I cried repudiating this thing that had entered my life like something evil" (221).
• Paul promises himself that he will protect the new fader what his uncle Adelard didn't do for him.

4

• Did Paul ever grow any feeling for Yvonne just because she looked like Rosanna?
• Did his parents ever ask him why he had to excuse himself so much?
• Will the fade last him forever?
• How do the faders find out who the next fader will be?

3

• Contemptuous (193): scornful
• Famished (199): to endure severe hunger
• Virile (202): having the characteristics of an adult male

2

• "My father sat on the piazza bundled against the chill, the thin sunlight not warm enough to bake his bones" (193). Personification.
• "The first time I inhaled the aroma of turkey and stuffing in the kitchen on Easter morning, I threw my arms around my mother and kissed her firmly on the cheek and she shooed me away, the way she used to shoo us off to bed when I was a kid" (196). Imagery.
• "A futile love because she had disappeared from my life and the life of the family" (197). Man vs. Man.

1

• Now as an adult, Paul tells the story of his life and promises himself that he will protect the next fader because the fade gets difficult to deal with and can diminish an individual.

Journal Entry #6

5

• A new section of the book has started and everything will now be from Susan's point of view.
  
• Susan read a manuscript and it was about "the boy Paul and the fade and all the rest of it" (158). She is very confused, but interested and curious. Susan think she loves writing might thinks she might just be a pretender.
  
• The manuscript about Paul was sent to Meredith by Lionel many years before Susan found it. Paul sent it to him before his death. Meredith says that she is very troubled by it. Even though it doesn't seem so real, Meredith recognizes some of the people mentioned.
  
• Meredith has received a letter in the mail from her grandfather who was an investigator and Paul's family. He told her that the manuscript was fiction because fading isn't real.
  
• Besides the evidence they tried to give Meredith about the manuscript being fiction, she believes Paul was telling the truth.
  

4

• Why did the author decide to give the story from different peoples views?
  
• Will Susan tell about Paul?
• Since Susan wants to become a writer and she found a manuscript about Paul, will she publish it to become famous?
  
• Why did Paul reveal his secret?
• Will Meredith have the next fade?
• When Paul asked for his uncle Adelard in the photograph, his parents said it was a joke and the family would get nervous when speaking about it. Is Meredith's grandfather saying the manuscript is fiction so that she won't have the fade next?
  

3

• Chutzpah (159): audacity
  
• Astray (160): confusion
  
• Posthumous (162): occurring after one's death
  
• Wryly (186): misdirected
  

2

• "Meredith was as still as the crystal paperweight, shaped like a fawn, on the table next to the manuscript" (164). Simile.
  
• "My eyes are on fire" (180). Oxymoron.
  

1

• Paul left a story about his life behind and Meredith unlike others believe his story is true.
  

Journal Entry #5

5

• Paul sees LaBatt, his bully, bullying Joey. LaBatt is trying to take his money away, money from the paper route (job), that doesn't belong to him. All of the sudden, Paul feels out of breath and that's because he is beginning to fade! Paul takes this to his advantage and beats up LaBatt.
• After Paul beat up LaBatt, people gathered around to see what happened and Paul wanted to shout out that he was the one who did it. After a while of just watching, he thought about what he did and he was not a boy of violence. It's like the fade made him someone else.
• The "scabs" have come to town and the inhabitants are afraid.
• Paul is going to the shop with his dad and he tells him that there might be a fight!
• The fight went on and Paul prayed that his fade wouldn't fail him at this time. Paul's father got really hurt, but fortunately he would survive!

4

• Will LaBatt see him when he comes out of the fade?
• Well he change the way he acts towards everyone because he can now fade?
• What will Paul's mother do when she finds out Adelard passed the fade onto him?
• Will Paul try to hurt Toubert?

3

• Muckalize (132):a large number or amount
  
• Sinews (134): a tendon
  
• Decrepit (137):weakened by old age
  
• Surreptitiously (142): obtained, done, made
  

2

• "Dropping to the ground, moaning, flecks of foam spilling from his mouth" (134). Imagery.
• "Had i become brute" (135). Man vs. Man.

1

• Paul has learned to use his fade and now uses it more often.
  

Journal Entry #4

5

• Paul goes to church to confess because he feels that he has sinned. He's confessing about touching his Aunt's breast.
• Paul has now started High School. His teacher has taken his breath away!
• Uncle Adelard waits for Paul to teach him more how to fade. Adelard's uncle, Theophile was the on who taught Adelard to fade. So, fades are passed on from generation to generation.
  
• Paul asked Adelard why he decided to teach him how to fade and Adelard told him that his uncle Theophile told that the nephew with the glow around his body is the next one to be taught.
  
• Paul loves to write and was assigned to type a story. After he handed in the story, his teacher pulled him aside. She told him that the story was unacceptable and that she knows it's hard going from a parochial school to a public school. Also, that he should remove himself from chorus and just focus on his studies.
• Paul is thinking about what his uncle told him. Aldelard said that the fade wasn't a gift and Paul is starting to see where he's coming from.
• Paul feels something chasing him!
  

4

• Is Paul going to fall in love with his teacher now?
• Can it be a girl in the family that can be taught how to fade?
  
• Why is this teacher saying harsh things to Paul?
  
• Does Paul regret finding out the mystery of the family photograph?
  

3

• Teetering (97): to walk or move unsteadily
• Renegades (104): one who rejects a religion, alliance or group for another
  
• Turreted (117): a small tower, forming part of a large structure
  

2

• "My fate hanging in that pause, teetering as if on a high wire" (97). Simile.
• "My head danced with color and light and laughter and voices and ringing bells as I stumbled down the stairs that afternoon to meet my cousin Jules across the street" (104). Personification.
• "I did not know, like visiting a museum and being ignorant of the artists who created such works of splendor" (125). Simile.
  

1

• Paul is learning more about how to fade and the fade is no longer a mystery to him. He ponders as to whether it's a gift or not...
  

Journal Entry #3

5

• Paul went to his father's job to bring him lunch and the other workers told him to go give it to him at the Rub Room. It was Paul's first time in there and the working conditions were so harsh that he said his dad looked like a slave in a horrifying movie.
• Paul is alone and he wants to write. Rosanna and her assets is what first pops up into his head.
• Uncle Adelard has come to speak to Paul about the mysterious picture. Uncle Adelard tells Paul that it was a he disappeared in the picture and it was a prank. Paul was a bit disappointed and confused. Suddenly, Adelard disappears and when Paul blinks again, Adelard is back!
• Paul is disappearing!
• Uncle Adelard is teaching Paul how to fade when nobody is home. He tells Paul that he will feel very tired after he fades.

4

• When will he start liking a girl his age?
• Will Paul even talk to another girl knowing that Rosanna could come back any time?
• What will Paul's father do when he finds out about Adelard?
• Is teaching Paul how to fade a good idea?

3

• Purgatory (64): purify
• Gnomes (64): creatures that live underground
• Rivulets (70): a small stream

2

• "The workers sat on the stool like gnomes over the whirling wheels, holding the combs against the wheels to smooth away the rough spots" (64). Simile.
• "The room roared with the sound of the machinery while the foul smell of the mud soiled the air" (64). Personification.
• "The rain fell steadily, mistily, splashing softly like small fountains in the yard below, running off into rivulets toward the gutter" (70). Simile.
• "Vomit rose in my throat, my heart pounding so dangerously that I backed away instinctively, my cheeks hot and pulsing" (85). Imagery.
• "Glancing out the small, dusty window, I saw the moon hanging remotely in the sky" (85). Personification.
  

1

• Paul can't get over Rosanna and to his surprise Uncle Adelard isback and revealing his secret!
  

Journal Entry #2

5

• The protagonist, Paul, has had problem with LaBatt and he is very scared of him. LaBatt has been his all time bully.
• He wonders why LaBatt bullys him and he says this is another mystery he need to solve. He loves mysteries!
• During this time, 14 is the legal age to start working in shops.
• "Women never wore high heels in Frenchtown on weekday afternoons" (39) but his aunt Rosanna was one who did and he admired her beauty. He even follows her!
• One day when he was following her, she went to Rudolphe Toubert's house who was "the closest thing to a gangster" (41). Paul was very jealous. "My love for her forgave everything and anything" (47).
• Paul told Aunt Rossana that he was in love with her and she told him that couldn't be possible because she was too old and was his aunt. After, they talked about her life and she told him that she left town because she was pregant. To Paul's surprise the baby was Rudolphe's.
• Rosanna and Paul are close and eventhough she left she wrote him a letter.

4

• What will his parents say about his love for Rosanna?
• Would he confront his family for his "love"?
• If he sees Rosanna with Rudolphe, what would he do?
• WIll Rosanna come back?

3

• Berth (34): remain discreetly away from
• Maim (35): cripple
• Emphatcally (52): strongly expressive
• Languid (55): lacking in vitality

2

• "Omer LaBatt always appeared before me this way, like a phantom, without warning, out of nowhere" (33). Simile.
• "I spotted her one day hurrying along Seventh Street in bright red high-heeled sandals with straps that wrapped around her ankles like thin fingers caressing her flesh" (39). Simile.
• "Carried on the sumer air, the whistles created a strange kind of harmony, harsh and out of tune yet blending together, like the cries of all the workers down the hallways of the years, protesting the long hours,the blistering heat, the aches and the pains, the frustrations and the loses" (54). Allusion. Simile. Imagery.

1

• Paul says he's in love and that he knows all about love eventhough he's only 13.

Journal Entry #1 Fade by Robert Cormier

5

• The family has a mystery photograph and they don't like to talk about it.
  
• According to the stories told, there is an empty spot on the photograph where the protagonist's uncle should be.
  
• His father is watching news about Hitler and the young boy only cares about finding out the mystery of the picture.
  
• The protagonist looks up to his uncle Adelard because he did things out of the ordinary in town and he wants to be just like that.
  
• The photograph isn't the only mystery, there are rumors of strange happenings in a pond near by.
• Paul went to the pond with Pete at eleven! They see cars approaching and they have niggers and Jews that they are going to kill. Sounds like Paul's and Pete's life are at risk. The killers were the Ku Klux Klan.
  

4

• Has anyone other than family members seen the photograph?
  
• I have the same question as the protagonist, where is Adelard?
  
• Is he the only curious one out of everyone in the family, besides Adelard?
  
• Will he tell his father he was at the scene of the killing?
  

3

• coiffed (3): arrange attractively
  
• trudged (5): to walk wearily
  
• papists (20): offensive was of calling Roman Catholics
  
• sacrilege (30): the violation of anything sacred
  

2

• "Others spoke of the mystery in hushed tones, with raised eyebrows as if even the mere mention of the picture would bring them terrible consequence" (4). Imagery.
  
• "But in my heart I was brave and courageous like the cowboys in the Saturday afternoon serials at the Plymouth Theater" (5). Simile.
• "Her face was a beacon shining in my mind, a glowing light that led me with sweet caresses into sleep, deep and dark, and because of her, utterly beautiful" (14). Imagery.
  

1

• Paul is very adventurous and enjoys looking into mysteries.