Latin Roots (7)
1. duct(t)Roots:

   ·duc(t), dice (to lead): conduct, reduce, education, abduct, deductive
　·fed(er), fid(e) (faith, trust): federal, confidence,  infidel, bona fide, confide
　·fin(e) (end, limit): finish, confine, infinitesimal, affinity, infinity
　·flect, flex (to blend): deflect, reflex, reflector, flexibility, genuflect, flexor

Words:
　·aqueduct: a large pipe or other conduit made to bring water from a great distance
　·conducive: tending to lead, help, assist, or result in
　·definitive: completely accurate, reliable, and authoritative
　·fidelity: faithfulness to one's promises or obligations
　·fiduciary: an individual who holds something in today for another
　·finale: a "grand" conclusion, as of a performance last scene of a play
　·finite: limited or bordered by time or by any measurement
　·flexuous: winding in and out
　·inducement: anything used or given to persuade or motivate
　·inflection: a slight change in front or modulation of the voice, as in a point of emphasis
　·perfidious: characteristic of one who would intentionally betray a faith or trust
　·traduce: to speak falsely of to slander or defame

 

Diaz, Angel

Period.2



The Joy Luck Club ( Does Jing-mei succeed or fail?)

 

In the The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan shows many mother daughter relationships. One including Suyuan Woo and her daughter Jing-mei. Jing-mei's and her mothers relationship is not good it includes neglect, criticism, and not enough communication. This relationship stays until Suyuan dies from a cerebral aneurysm. Jing must keep what her mother left, she must fulfill Suyuan's legacy. Jing-mei does and grows to be successful and make her mothers wishes fact rather than fiction.

 

 The joy luck club was created by Suyuan Woo with the hopes of forgetting the hardships of life. h Each member of the club takes turns hosting the gathering and everybody in the club is to share happy moments. When Suyuan dies Jing-Mei must take over. Jing-Mei feels incapable of playing the role of her mom. Jing-Mei has always felt insecure and and incapable of leading the club. In the end, Jing-Mei starts to participate in the gathering by playing mah jong. This is the first step to following her mother’s legacy.

 The second part to fulfilling Suyuan's legacy is accepting Woo’s wish to finding her lost twin daughters and meeting them.  Jing-Mei accepted the request of visiting her once lost sisters. By doing this she went further than her mother. Suyuan’s wish turns to Jing-Mei’s wish as well. Jing tells her sisters of their mother’s death and who she was as a person. Accepting her mother’s wish, it soon turns to be Jing-Mei’s wish to give her sisters the opportunity to meet their mother, thus growing closer to her mother and even resembling her intentions. Jing-Mei herself begins to realize how she reflects her mother. Jing-Mei honors her mother’s legacy by to completing her mom's wish of her lost daughters.

      By the end of the novel, Jing-Mei has completed Suyuan’s legacy. Jing Mei has gone to China to meet her older sisters. Her mother’s wish has always been for her daughter to get in touch with her Chinese heritage and to know about her past. Jing-Mei succeeds in this as she discovers the Chinese element within herself. Suyuan Woo’s wish was to reunite  with her lost daughters. Suyuan didn't but her daughter did. Jing-Mei builds connects herself to China and her sisters. Jing-Mei realizes that she's a lot like her mom. Readers can understand that Jing- Mei has truly completed her mother’s legacy. Jing-Mei understands the Chinese half inside her and her mother’s intentions. 

 

Jing-mei has accepted her Chinese half, found her sisters, and understands her mothers intentions. She has not been the best mother but she did believe in Jing. Jing was able to accomplish all her mothers wishes. She honors herself as a Chinese and all her mothers wishes.  Even with her mother gone there connection is much stronger. Jing-mei truly succeeded in all she did and all she will be.

 

LEOPARD MAN

 

9) Tom Leppard is called "leopard man" because of his full body leopard tattoos.

 

10) The author thinks people with tattoos and piercings are desperate for attention.

 

11) leopard man is different from the basic tattooed people because he doesn't do it to fit in he does it because it feels right to him.

 

12) Leopard man lives in a cabin in the Scottish wilderness.

 13) According to Feys, people in society fear loners because they pursue their own values without seeking other's permission or permitting others to hamper them.

 

14) The world's most common psychological disorder is conformity. People try hard to fit in which leads to suicide.

 

15) Leopard Man is happy because he is free of society and irrelevant people that judge.

Diction Worksheet

1.     “I climbed over the spare spar and leaned over the rail as far as I could, to bring my eyes nearer to that mystery floating alongside.”

2.     Cadaverous- resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony;

… a wide back submerged right up to the neck in a greenish pale glow.

Elongated- unusually long in relation to its width;

But I saw at once something long and pale floating near the ladder.

Phosphorescent- light emitted by a substance without combustion or perceptible heat;

Before I could form a guess a faint flash of light…flickered in the sleeping water.

3.     The use of elevated language contributes to the tone by creating a more detailed image of what’s happening. Paraphrasing the passage affects the tone by taking away that imagery and creating a less suspenseful tone.

4.     Four Examples of Concrete Diction: “something elongated and pale”; “a pair of feet”; “a headless corpse”; “my gaping mouth”

5.     The author would choose do leave the characters nameless to create a mysterious mood.

6.     The denotative meaning of The Secret Sharer is someone who secretly shares something.

Word	Denotation	Connotation
Cadaverous	resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony	intimidating figure that’s skeleton like
Darkling	of or relating to growing darkness	somber
Pale	light in color or having little color	unnaturally light
Phosphorescence	light emitted by a substance without combustion or perceptible heat	a mysterious glow
Ghastly	extremely unwell	horrific
Headless	without a head	decapitated
Fishlike	quality of a fish	resembling  a fish