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the first time i saw her was in my mind
she was a peice of life yet lifeless so seemed to be
her eyes, focused out, not staring at me
her sides were sketched with lines of touch and scrapes
a chin thats small so delicatly placed
her face was a sight, magnifisant and pure
and her hair was not something worth taking time
to look at, for her dementions and turns had to be shared
the world should know of what I see
all day long i scetch out dreams
that turn into eyes biggest fantasies
a tallent so rare not easy to capture
the delicatness of a woman the strength of her eyes
her presense lies among me, paper thin and grey
i stare at her with wonder and utter dismay
shes turn over her shoulder my first line appears
and everything else just simply disapears.

I remember a time of grief and shallow breaths
my life in ruins lie beneath me
whats behind runs fast and I am not yet closed
for it takes me into its chest and holds me abroad
I stare into a bottomless nothing, now it seems to be
for what I once loved seems so intirely greived
and minutes take my seconds away
into decades and what seem to be waisted days
I spend without you, what visions are these?
I see nothing but holes and feel bloody knees
stare deep and cry 6 feet below
touchable memories are all let go
for what has happened to my dear sweet son?
take my life and my grief this deed is done.

Etymology Unit 3

1. Commiserate

miser

Latin

wretched

17th

2. Expedite

expedire

Latin

extricate, make ready, put in order

17th

3. Ferment

fervere

Latin

boil

15th

4. Inadvertent

advert- to turn ones attention

in- prefix

Midevil Latin

16th

5. Sangfroid

sang-froid

French

cold blood

18th

Eustace on the Trail

Gilbert describes the way Eustace Conway feels upon his discovery of his survival of the Appalachian Trail. He feels, "like a man who has walked away from a firing squad whos guns have been jammed, and he's checking himself for bullet holes- and there are none." When one undergoes a religious conversion it is either by choice or a peer descision. When the descision is made by choice they under go a change. Religion is what you believe is true and it contains your most valuable posession, your values. If you are changing religion, if because of a burden or some sort of pressure on yourself, you feel a great relief from all that force. You alo have a new feeling of happiness and freedom. Gilberts says, "He's humbled and exalted and simplified and purified and saved by this moment." Conway has the feeling of a person who has just changed religions. Elizabeth Gilbert depicks this feeling very well through her writting.

Etymology vocab 2

1. Aplomb
a plomb
French
according to the plummet
19th

2. Lassitude
lassus
Latin
weary
16th

3. Occult
celare
Latin
conceal
16th

4. Permeate
meare
Latin
pass
15th

5. Stringent
stringere
Latin
bind
17th

The Third and Final Continent

The encounters and experiences the narrator of "The Third and Final Continent" face eventually lead him to the state of happiness and contentment. The narrator's name is not stated in the story but we see him as a lonely character almost. He sheilds away from public noises, for he is distracted and discomforted by them. He moves to America to take up a job at Tech University in the library. This is the narrator's first state of change. He has to adjust from the British setting to the American setting. Everything is new to him. The text says, "Even the simple chore of buying milk was new to me; in London we'd had bottles delivered each morning to our door" (page 175). At first the character is overwhelmed by his new surrounding in Massachusetts but in the end comes to love it, for he desides to grow old there with Mala. Later after living in Massachusetts for awhile, the narrator finds a home to live in alone for awhile until his wife comes to America. At this home he encounters a very old woman at the age of one hundred and three named Mrs. Croft. Upon his first meeting with her, the narrator is slightly intimidated and overwhelmed. But after awhile the narrator becomes accustomed to Mrs. Croft's schedule and habits. The narrator begins to admire her age and marvel at the fact that she is a very special woman who has seen a good many number of days and events. Mrs. Croft is the first death the narrator mourns in America. She becomes part of his life. It says, "I barely recognize the buildings now, but each time I am there I return instantly to those six weeks as if they were only the other day"(page197). He is referring to the six weeks he spent with Mrs. Croft. The narrator's encounters with Mrs. Croft develope his growth of love and admiration that he finds towards his wife in the end. One last encounter is the narrator's wife Mala. It was an arranged marriage between two complete strangers. Mala is described as talented and skilled but not very attractive, for it was hard for her to marry. The narrator, upon Mala's arrival into America, is not accostomed to having her around the house. He isn't used to someone marking on his territory. They are very much awkward apon her first few days in America. That awkwardness soon blossoms into a love that is strong with an outcome of a child. His family is the main seed of the narrator's growth because they define who he is now. He has more than he has ever wanted and has found himself to be over satisfied and happy. The last line of the text reads, "As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination" (page 198). The narrater has found himself, after all of his life encounters, no matter how often they happen, happy and content in admiration.

The Treatment of Bibi Haldar

1. I think that Bibi suffers from hypertension. Hypertension is a desease where strokes accur often. I think her so called "attacks" are strokes. Her "attacks are described as, "Bibi fell to the footpath. She shook. She shuttered. She chewed her lips"(page 167).

2. After many suggestions of how to cure her, one doctor proposed that what Bibi needed was a husband or marriage. The text says, "It was there, after performing a series of blood tests, that the doctor in charge of Bibi's case, exasperated, concluded that a marriage would cure her" (page 161).

3. Well the first thing the narrator does is "argue in favor of finding a husband"(page 163). The narraor concludes that it's what Bibi has wanted all along. Then they began to coach Bibi in wifely ways. They taught her to not frown all the time, and to converse with men. They also combed her hair, changing her part, they "powered the down over her lips and throat, penciled definition into her brows, and walked her to the banks of the fish pond" (page 167).

4. Bibi Haldar gets pregnant and gives birth to a baby boy.

5. Bibi and Boori Ma are very similar in that they are sort of outcasts in society. They are both very unclean in a sense and live very poor lives. They each have their own difficult struggles. Boori Ma's being that she is mostly lonley and tells stories often of a past utopia which she claimed she wonse lived in. And Bibi's being that she has a desease that they can't find the cure to. They are both considered unatractive and lonley.