Monday, November 14, 2011

Prologue Question

WOW Natalie Babbitt sure does use a LOT of adjectives in the first paragraph of this story to describe the feeling of a summer day!
  Below please copy one of your favorite sentences and explain why you like her choice of adj. in that sentence.

  Ex:  "There is no thunder, no relieving rain."  I like her use of the word relieving because usually I think of rain as something that annoys me or that ruins a day, but she just reminded me that on those REALLY hot days I look forward to the rain, and when it comes I feel relieved.
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  1. Mr. MichiganNovember 14, 2011 at 9:17 AM

    Then he heard the slithering.A brushing sound, a slithering brushing sound near his feet-and he kicked out as hard as he could, kicked out and threw his hatchet at the sound,a noise coming from his throat. But the hatchet missed,sailed into a a wall wherer it hit the rocks with a shower of sparks, and his leg instantly torn withpain, asif a hundredneedles had been driven into it.

    Hatchet by GaryPaulson

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  2. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 12:31 PM

    There is no thunder, no relieving rain.
    also I like "Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbeb, for without them, nothing holds together, for without them,...............

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  3. Socializing SKWRLZNovember 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM

    OFTEN AT NIGHT THERE IS LIGHTNING BUT IT QUIVERS ALL ALONE

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  4. Cupcake BossNovember 14, 2011 at 12:58 PM

    The prolouge or first chapter?

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  5. purple kiwiNovember 14, 2011 at 1:12 PM

    the prolouge

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  6. Cupcake BossNovember 14, 2011 at 1:22 PM

    "The first week of August hangs at the very top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow, a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless and hot."

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  7. purple kiwiNovember 14, 2011 at 1:24 PM

    The first week of august hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live long year, the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. It is my favorite sentence because I think it is interesting to think about the first day of august as the highest seat of a ferris wheel. the hottest days of the summer are passing and it is like the top of the summer.

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  8. purple kiwiNovember 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM

    what does hub mean?

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  9. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 2:27 PM

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  10. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 2:28 PM

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  11. FashionKittehNovember 14, 2011 at 3:15 PM

    My favorite sentence is: "These are strange and breathless days, the dog days..." I love how she uses "dog days" to describe August, those days where you're bored and and have nothing to do, where you lay around like a dog. Perfect way to describe it.

    Purple Kiwi: hub/həb/
    Noun:
    The central part of a wheel, rotating on or with the axle, and from which the spokes radiate.

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  12. koala?November 14, 2011 at 3:51 PM

    i like the line "The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of atum, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot."I like it because it describes the setting/time of the year in different words and ways.

    Have a great night!!!

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  13. 007November 14, 2011 at 4:27 PM

    I like the line when she says how August is motionless and hot. She uses a lot of expression and it really helps you visualize how hot it is.

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  14. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 4:33 PM

    Me too I agree with you Edwin!!!!!!!!

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  15. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 4:33 PM

    Hi edwin

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  16. 007November 14, 2011 at 4:45 PM

    Hi Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny man ( A.K.A. Wiley) I have a new blog.

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  17. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 4:54 PM

    I know that edwin. I finnally got you to talk to you are you still there

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  18. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 4:55 PM

    I would still be on this blog untill 8:30. How do you think about the summery

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  19. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 4:56 PM

    in the book Tuck Everlasting

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  20. sirbarksalotNovember 14, 2011 at 5:02 PM

    purple kiwi: i think hub means the center of something like the center of the Ferris wheel. my favorite part was when the author made the connection between a hub/Ferris wheel and the sun/earth. i also can picture a mind movie, for example, when the author wrote, "if you take the hub out of the Ferris wheel it will all fall apart", so when you move the hub something could change in the Ferris wheel and that's the same as if you change something in the woods so something could go wrong and you'll regret it.

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  21. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 5:03 PM

    I am not Purple kiwi

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  22. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 5:04 PM

    What do you juys like about the prologue

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  23. AnonymousNovember 14, 2011 at 5:11 PM

    my fav line in the prologue is " It is curiously silent,too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons ,and sunsets smeared with too much color." I like this sentence because there is so much information but it fits into one vivid picture.

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  24. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 5:15 PM

    Wh ois road racer

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  25. sirbarksalotNovember 14, 2011 at 5:16 PM

    what????

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  26. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 5:16 PM

    are you still their

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  27. sirbarksalotNovember 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM

    who are you talking to???

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  28. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM

    what? Who are you talking to . Me or RoadRacer (^-^)

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  29. sirbarksalotNovember 14, 2011 at 5:18 PM

    i now you are not purple kiwi i wasn't talking to you i was talking to purple kiwi!

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  30. sirbarksalotNovember 14, 2011 at 5:18 PM

    you!!!

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  31. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM

    I am talking to RoadRacer (^-^) Yardan

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  32. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 5:22 PM

    but purple kiki is not one the blog

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  33. sirbarksalotNovember 14, 2011 at 5:23 PM

    YOU SPELLED MY NAME WRONG!!! >:( (look at it side ways. try to spell my name right please)

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  34. sirbarksalotNovember 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM

    purple kiwi is an the blog

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  35. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 5:28 PM

    I mean not know at this moment. Then how do you spell your name person

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  36. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 5:31 PM

    are you on the blog beacuse I do not see your name on it sirbarksalot

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  37. Big Fat Fluffy pig like bunny manNovember 14, 2011 at 6:09 PM

    My prediction in the book is that there are going to be a lot of things that I think do not have a conection but the author is going to make it turn the other way.

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  38. AnonymousNovember 14, 2011 at 6:36 PM

    it is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with to much color.
    i like how natalie babbitt makes the sentence sound like an artists painting

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