New Questions: Chapters 1 and 2; Vocabulary

Hi Book Club Members,

Go to your own blog to answer any or all of the questions below. Be sure to write the question you're answering in your title box.

• Then, read the next two chapters in the book,Chapter 3(The Four Girls) and Chapter4( Joe) by yourselves. We will read Chapter 5(The Rudy Elmenhurst Story) together in class on Thursday, November 8th.

See you in cyperspace!

Chapter 1(Antojos)

1)Describe what you have discovered about the personalities of any of the following characters:
Tia Carmen, Tia Flor, Gabriela
Lucinda, Yolanda

2)In the first chapter, the author reveals that Yolanda may be back on the island to stay.
Why do you think Yolanda is thinking of staying? Make a guess.

Chapter 2(The Kiss)

3)Describe the relationship between the father and the four daughters.

4)What does the father have against Sofia? What does Sofia have against her father?

Vocabulary words to watch out for:

Chapter 3(The Four Girls)

differentiation(p.41) providential(p.44)
intimated (p.41) sonnets(p.46)
retentive(p.41) psychotic(p. 51)
ominous(p.64)

Chapter 4(Joe)

contemplative(p.68) inadvertent(p.71)

mimicked(p.78) sullen(p.79)

unintimidating(p.80) camouflaged (p. 80)

profound(p. 80) satiated(p. 84)

enunciates(p. 85)

Chapter 5(The Rudy Elmenhurst Story)

7)vivacious(p. 87) obscure (p.88)

syllabus(p. 88) logistics(p.89)

sublimated(p.94) decadent(p.95)

incongruous(p.101)