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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Chapter Ten
Please reread the first half of page 145. Why was there "stunned silence" after Calpurnia "huffed, that's no fair"? And after Granddaddy said, "She has a point there, Margaret. Pass the gravy, please. Ha!", why was it that "he punctured the tension in the room and deflected any punishment I might have called down upon myself"? Please explain your interpretation of this scene.
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I think it is because there was full focus on Callie and the family didn't really want to deal with the problem of her manners, and when grandfather said that, all of the focus went over to grandfather. I also think that grandfather was trying to help Callie.
ReplyDeleteYes Tyler I agree with your point of view but I also think that the way she felt was because she is the only girl in her generation and she does not think that it is fare that she has to be the perfect child while the boys can mess around and be irresponsible expectantly. But she can't.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Tyler because everyone was paying attention to Calpurnia when Grandfather started laughing and talking all of the attention left Calpurnia and went over to Grandfather, which made the family forget about what Calpurnia had done.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Tyler because When she huffed everyone was looking at her then, granddaddy got the attention off of her by saying, "She has a point there Margret. Pass the gravy, please, ha!" Then there everyone was looking at him.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tyler in the fact that she had interrupted and had dodged any punishment that she would have had because of grandaddy.
ReplyDeleteI'd like for you to explore the idea that Tyler presented about her being the only girl in the family. Are there different expectations for her because of that? Is there a double standard at work? Are there other instances in the story that might support this idea?
ReplyDeleteAlso, does the setting (time and place) impact the way Calpurnia is treated?
ReplyDeleteI feel that Calpurnia was in a akward position being the only girl in the family and because of that she feels left out because she is the only girl in the family.
ReplyDeleteYes I believe so, that Calpurnia is expected to be better than say the other boy considering the fact that Calpurnia and Harry are the only one that have to take piano lessons. I think that the reason that harry has to take the also is because of the fact that he is the oldest boy in the house.I also think that when Grandaddy interrupted that him finally getting involved in a conversation surprized Calpurnia's family making it so that Calpurnia had dodged any further punishment that she could have received.Also the fact that Calpurnia is the only girl in the family could have affected this.
ReplyDeleteI think that the setting affects the way Callie is treated because the story is set in the 1800's and during this time, women were not treated equally and I think that might contribute to how she was treated.
ReplyDeleteI think that being the only girl in a family of all boys does bring a different expectation. A higher one. And I would love to answer the other part of the question but I need to know what a double standard is?
ReplyDeleteI think that the time affects the way Calpurnia is treated because back in the 1800's, women usually did a lot of work to do and they were treated unfairly because of the fact that they worked all day and didn't really get chances to do anything else or have fun.
ReplyDeleteI think that the time and place does impact the way that she is treated because if they where at a friend's house then not all of the people that were there would look at her and then she wouldn't be as embarrassed. I also agree with Sebastian because woman weren't treated fairly during the day because they were working all day and when they were done working they didn't have time to do what they wanted to do because it was night time.
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