Journal Entry #5

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• 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.
  

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• 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.
  

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