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.