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.