Qian and Kathryn
Trasition English
Dec.15.2009
Woman
Hollering
Creek
Main Characters:
1.My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn :
Lucy and her sisters
2.Eleven:
Rachel , Mrs. Price- teacher , her classmates
3.Salvador Late or Early:
Salvador and his brother
4.Mexican Movies :
Rachel’s parents , her little sister- Kiki
5:you and me
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6:grandmother, father, uncle, auntie,brother
7:Tepeyac:Arturo,Abuelito,
SETTING:
1.Lucy’s house.
2.Rachel’s classroom
3.No
4.Theaters
5:Maxwell Street
6:church
7 Misterios and Cinco de Mayo
PLOT SUMMARY:
Rachel have some friends they both poor. Lucy’s smells like corn,
because she always eat corn. Rachel was eleven years old, but sometimes
she felt it is not different with ten years old. Salvador is Rachel’s classmate,
he was a busy guy and teacher can’t remember his name. Rachel like watch
Mexican movies because there are pretty place, delicious food and she felt
she is rich at that time. Although Lucy and Rachel not rich, but they had a
happy life.
Everybody today selling toys, all of them damaged with water and
selling of smoke.
There are so many prayers and promises and thanks to be to God
to be given .We’re Mericans, we’re Mericans ,and inside the awful
grandmother prays.
It is me who will remember when everything else is forgotten,you
who took with you to your stone bed something irretrievable, without name.
NEW WORDS:
P8 germ a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from
which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
P11 rag
a small piece of cloth or paper
P10 crayon
writing implement consisting of a colored stick of
composition wax used for writing and drawing
P17:votive offered or consecrated in fulfillment of a vow
P18 crucifix a representation of a cross with a figure of Christ on it
THEMES:
In those Chapter I think it relatives our life. Everywhere have poor people
and rich people. If we don’t disappointed our life. Everybody will have a
happy life.
I saw one senctence in Chapter “Merican”,”There are those walking to
church on their knees.”I have the some experience when I were in temple. I
saw a lot people walking by there knees. They just have one wish ,for
example,their children study better…