Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil 54321-3
5Comments
  • Author/ Main Character throws alot of parties.
  • Many parks near the manor and "garden"
  • Many stereotyped phrases in this chapter.
  • Amount of Dialoge begins to decrease as the chapters go along
  • The way J.Berendt speaks is similar to W.Shakespeare.
4Questions
  • Why do they reffer to the cemetery as a garden?
  • Why doesnt John Berendt animate his characters?
  • Why did he introduce people as random as he did?
  • Were most of those goals in those days, make alot of money and get alot of women?
3Vocab
  • Magnolia: Any of numerous evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Magnolia of the Western Hemisphere and Asia, having aromatic twigs and large showy white, pink, purple, or yellow flowers.
  • Connoisseur: A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts.
  • Facades: he face of a building, especially the principal face
2Literary Devices
  • Metaphor: "...south of the historic district lay a wide swath of Victorian gingerbread houses." ( pg38 )
  • Personification:"... the lights in Joe's house blinked on..."
1Summarizing Sentence
  • This chapter is about the lifestyles of the Author and people he described throughout the chapter.