Dear Mary Karr,
It's me again and I just have a few more questions. The first question is why didn't you ask your mother about your half brother and half sister? Weren't you interested in them at all? I know you said that you kind of forgot about them after your grandmother first told you but why didn't you ask her then? Also, I was wondering if you've ever met them. It's been a long time and you talked about them quite a lot. I hope you wrote more about them in the book.
My other question is about the hurricane. Were you ever scared of it? When you mentioned the hurricane you only wrote about how your grandmother felt about it but never what you were thinking. Were you not concerned or were you too young to understand what was going on?
The third question is did you ever see or speak to your dad ever again? After you called him for the last time, you wrote "Then it's like you listen, expecting that faraway sound, and instead you get only the numb quiet of your own skull not knowing what to think of next" (87). That's all you wrote! I think you should've said more such as how you reacted, how it impacted you instead of just moving on to talk about the hurricane.
- Anna
October 2, 2007
Post A #2
Vocab
Quirt (73): A riding whip with a short handle and a lash of braided rawhide.
Roux (74): A cooked mixture of butter or other fat and flour used to thicken sauces, soups, etc.
Appeals
"When a spiral got big enough-- once it took up a hundered miles of coastline and had winds of about a hundered and fifty miles per hour-- it was a hurricane" (81). This is a logical appeal because the author is just stating what a hurricane is. In other words, it's a fact.
"It's odd to me now how easily I let him leave our lives that fall at such an ugly time. Maybe he'd been slowly backpedaling out of the daddy business since Grandma came" (83). This shows how she wants the reader to sympathize with her. This is an emotional appeal.
"By mid-fall, the cancer had spread to Grandma's brain" (69). This is an emotional and a logical appeal. It is an emotional appeal because Karr again wants the reader to feel bad about her situation. This is also a logical appeal because it is a fact that her Grandmother had cancer and it spread to her brain.
Quote
When Mary's father left her and her family Mary and her sister tried to call him one last time. "Then it's like you listen, expecting that faraway sound, and instead you get only the numb quiet of your own skull not knowing what to think of next" (87). This obviously impacted her a great deal. She had already gone through so much and then her father just disappeared. Now that her father is gone, my prediction is that her sister will be the responsible one in the family and help raise Mary.
Theme
One theme that I have noticed in The Liars' Club is that no matter what happens in life, you have to keep going and try make the best of it. So far, Mary Karr has been through a lot of tough times. When her father left she explained that at the time she had no idea what to do but then she moved on.
Quirt (73): A riding whip with a short handle and a lash of braided rawhide.
Roux (74): A cooked mixture of butter or other fat and flour used to thicken sauces, soups, etc.
Appeals
"When a spiral got big enough-- once it took up a hundered miles of coastline and had winds of about a hundered and fifty miles per hour-- it was a hurricane" (81). This is a logical appeal because the author is just stating what a hurricane is. In other words, it's a fact.
"It's odd to me now how easily I let him leave our lives that fall at such an ugly time. Maybe he'd been slowly backpedaling out of the daddy business since Grandma came" (83). This shows how she wants the reader to sympathize with her. This is an emotional appeal.
"By mid-fall, the cancer had spread to Grandma's brain" (69). This is an emotional and a logical appeal. It is an emotional appeal because Karr again wants the reader to feel bad about her situation. This is also a logical appeal because it is a fact that her Grandmother had cancer and it spread to her brain.
Quote
When Mary's father left her and her family Mary and her sister tried to call him one last time. "Then it's like you listen, expecting that faraway sound, and instead you get only the numb quiet of your own skull not knowing what to think of next" (87). This obviously impacted her a great deal. She had already gone through so much and then her father just disappeared. Now that her father is gone, my prediction is that her sister will be the responsible one in the family and help raise Mary.
Theme
One theme that I have noticed in The Liars' Club is that no matter what happens in life, you have to keep going and try make the best of it. So far, Mary Karr has been through a lot of tough times. When her father left she explained that at the time she had no idea what to do but then she moved on.
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