WRITER’ S VOICE
Group Discussions/Writing
Write in complete sentences, answering each question fully.
1. What is the tone of the novel? How do you know it is the tone of the novel? Find at least five examples/quotes from the novel that demonstrate the tone, and explain why these quotes develop the tone.
In the first part, the tone of the novel is neutral and a bit mystery. The author does not make much opinion or equivalent towards the slavery’s situation. She sets a tone of frightening silence in this landscape; describes the calm before the racial by let Antoinette just share her thoughts, her emotions to take the journey from Jamaica to imprisonment in Rochester 's house alongside her. Antoinette is allowed to voice her own experience. For example, about the garden, Antoinette compares it to the Garden of Eden in the Bible, “[the] garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the …show more content…
As a white Creole, she straddles the European and the Caribbean culture into which she is born. I do not have that experiences; however, sometimes I had difficulty in deciding between two choices and I still confused if I were forced to choose one of them as Antoinette had been. While she found a world that can be both peaceful and terrifying, I would like to find a life which is only peaceful and keep it easily as much as possible. Moreover, Antoinette‘s perspective is that she does not verify her identity in the mirror, and it is only reasone that she is afraid. She is paradoxically seeking her own reflection in the person whom she wishes to reflect: Antoinette wants to be able to identify herself according to someone whom she already realizes is different, Tia. However, she struggles to retain her childhood perception of herself; she wants to identify herself as Tia does, a culturally and racially black West
Group Discussions/Writing
Write in complete sentences, answering each question fully.
1. What is the tone of the novel? How do you know it is the tone of the novel? Find at least five examples/quotes from the novel that demonstrate the tone, and explain why these quotes develop the tone.
In the first part, the tone of the novel is neutral and a bit mystery. The author does not make much opinion or equivalent towards the slavery’s situation. She sets a tone of frightening silence in this landscape; describes the calm before the racial by let Antoinette just share her thoughts, her emotions to take the journey from Jamaica to imprisonment in Rochester 's house alongside her. Antoinette is allowed to voice her own experience. For example, about the garden, Antoinette compares it to the Garden of Eden in the Bible, “[the] garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the …show more content…
As a white Creole, she straddles the European and the Caribbean culture into which she is born. I do not have that experiences; however, sometimes I had difficulty in deciding between two choices and I still confused if I were forced to choose one of them as Antoinette had been. While she found a world that can be both peaceful and terrifying, I would like to find a life which is only peaceful and keep it easily as much as possible. Moreover, Antoinette‘s perspective is that she does not verify her identity in the mirror, and it is only reasone that she is afraid. She is paradoxically seeking her own reflection in the person whom she wishes to reflect: Antoinette wants to be able to identify herself according to someone whom she already realizes is different, Tia. However, she struggles to retain her childhood perception of herself; she wants to identify herself as Tia does, a culturally and racially black West