My Sisters Keeper

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on which the statue stands. Read the poem and do the following quiz. “…Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore; Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” Vocabulary help huddled = serrées les unes contre les autres yearn = désirer ardemment wretched = misérable refuse = rebut teeming = grouillant tempest-tost = ballottés par la tempête 1. Today the Statue of Liberty

could not see. 18. Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not return (to the path). 19. Or (another similitude) is that of a rain-laden cloud from the sky: In it are zones of darkness, and thunder and lightning: They press their fingers in their ears to keep out the stunning thunder-clap, the while they are in terror of death. But Allah is ever round the rejecters of Faith! 20. The lightning all but snatches away their sight; every time the light (Helps) them, they walk therein, and when the darkness

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For to keep me company in the level sun which floods this ginger-bread balcony Will return again the memory-misted frenzy of an other summer dusk. And the sea at the foot of the cliff which forms the black foundation of this isolated house Must murmur, and swirl, and be sucked back through the rounded rocks, To murmur anew its accompaniment to a dream. How cold, how quaint, I must have seemed ! No ruffled wide white skirt, No tapping satin slipper, Was able to soften the stiffness of my pose

a gigantic figure, whose enourmous body is everything that a female body is not supposed to be: excessively out of proportion, dirty and ugly. How hideous am I? My nose is flat, my eybrows are heavy. I have only a few teeth and those are a poor show, being black and broken. I had smallpox when I was a girl and the caves in my face are home enough for fleas. But I have fine blue eyes that see in the dark (24) As Mary Russo has desribed in “the Female Body”: “The images of the grotesque body

suited to the harsh Nebraska winters. Mrs Shimerda greets the Burdens upon arrival, and Mrs Burden presents her with some loaves of bread. They exchange greetings, and, as the adults begin talking, Jim an Antonia run off to play with her youngest sister, Yulka, trailing behind. As they wander through the grass, Jim teaches Antonia a few English words. When the Burdens prepare to leave, Mr Shimerda entreats Mrs Burden to teach English to Antonia. Chapter 4 As the autumn season goes on, Antonia

shifts from grief to anger with astonishing speed. No sooner does she recover from a fainting spell than she rails at Antony for his inability to mourn his dead wife adequately. As he prepares to leave, Cleopatra says, “But sir, forgive me, / Since my becomings kill me when they do not / Eye well to you” (I.iii.96-98). Here, “becomings” refers not only to the graces that become or suit the queen but also to her fluid transformations, her many moods, and the many different versions of herself she

train de lire une page sur Internet en ce moment; ce qui se passe ces temps-ci: o Prices are going up; the value of the Euro is going down.Les prix montent; la valeur de l'euro baisse; ce que l'on a prévu de faire dans un futur proche: o I'm visiting my parents next Sunday. Je rends visite à mes parents dimanche prochain. 1 Present Simple Le Present Simple s'emploie pour parler de: • • • • ce qui est toujours vrai: o The sun rises in the east. Le soleil se lève à l'est; o Water boils