Dear Will,
When you first mentioned your new business I was really happy for you but after a while of reading I changed my mind. It seems like the business has really changed you and not in a very good way. Chapter six started out with you talking about how money can set people free. Your exact words were, "It could, for a start, set you free and make a place for you in the world. In that new country, it began to be my understanding that getting what you wanted was largely a matter of claiming what you wanted" (110). I said before (in the blog below) that I think in the future, your opinion on money will make bad things happen. I think that you'll try become greedy like Featherstone and Claire will leave you because of it. You've actually started to become a little bit snobby and selfish. You talked a lot about how you send for things such as silk and nice cloth to send to a tailor to get nice dress clothes for yourself. It doesn't seem like you need dress clothes to run your business so I don't really understand why you went through all that trouble. When you were talking about riding through towns on your nice horse you said, "Together, we looked so fine that day I wished I could sit on a porch and watch us ride by" (111). Honestly, I don't think you could be anymore cocky.
Although you have been acting odd, I still really like this book. I think it's cute how you and Claire love each other so much and I've also noticed that your writing is a lot more sophisticated than when you were a boy. You write like everything in your life is about business.
I can't wait to keep reading and find out what happened to Claire!
-Anna
December 18, 2007
Post A
Vocab
Cairn (111)-a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.
Roiled (113)-To displease or disturb.
Figurative Language
(Back to all similes!)
1) The first simile of this post is when Will said, "...trust and risk layered one atop the other in thin strata like cards in a deck" (110). This is a simile because he described something using the word like.
2) When Will was talking about a squirrel he said, "...one hind foot remained attached as it leaped into the air with the webs of skin between the legs stretced like wings for gliding and the bright chips of black glass set in its head for eyes looking toward the fireplace as if it had had enough of life and was ready to blaze away into the next world" (118-119). I wrote this whole sentence because it gives two examples of similes. (Look above for how they are a simile).
3) Then on the next page it said "And then I palmed the black nose, big as my spread hand, its texture like sand"(119). The author really likes to use similes and once again in this sentence there were two.
Quote
"In that new country, it began to be my understanding that getting what you wanted was largely a matter of claiming what you wanted" (110). I predict that this quote and what Will believes at this point in the book will cause him a lot of trouble. Money seems to be a big part of his life at the moment and I think he needs to realize that there's more to life than being rich.
Theme
Money can't fix everything.
Cairn (111)-a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.
Roiled (113)-To displease or disturb.
Figurative Language
(Back to all similes!)
1) The first simile of this post is when Will said, "...trust and risk layered one atop the other in thin strata like cards in a deck" (110). This is a simile because he described something using the word like.
2) When Will was talking about a squirrel he said, "...one hind foot remained attached as it leaped into the air with the webs of skin between the legs stretced like wings for gliding and the bright chips of black glass set in its head for eyes looking toward the fireplace as if it had had enough of life and was ready to blaze away into the next world" (118-119). I wrote this whole sentence because it gives two examples of similes. (Look above for how they are a simile).
3) Then on the next page it said "And then I palmed the black nose, big as my spread hand, its texture like sand"(119). The author really likes to use similes and once again in this sentence there were two.
Quote
"In that new country, it began to be my understanding that getting what you wanted was largely a matter of claiming what you wanted" (110). I predict that this quote and what Will believes at this point in the book will cause him a lot of trouble. Money seems to be a big part of his life at the moment and I think he needs to realize that there's more to life than being rich.
Theme
Money can't fix everything.
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