tender is the night continued

The book is getting really confusing, so i am probably goning to end it soon and i also have to start the new book too! So much to do!
So now in the book, Rosemary is continuing to fall in love with Dick, but their love is hard because they have to continue to hide it from Nicole. In this passage Dick and Rosemary are parting for the night, but the strength of their relationship is very prevalent.

When he had tottered out Dick and Rosemary embraced fleetingly.There was a dust of Paris over both of them through which they scented each other: the rubber guard on Dick's fountain pen, the faintest odor of warmth from Rosemary's neck ans shoulders. For another half-minute Dick clung to the situation; Rosemary was first to return to reality.

I like how they snap into reality(in next paragraph). But what i really find unique about this paragraph is the words Fitzgerald uses to describe the setting such as the "dust" and the part about his "fountain pen"

Tender Is The Night

So far I love this book! The imagery is so clean and refreshing as the setting is on the French Riviera. I have gotten a little confused by all of the different characters she meets within the first day, but after a little help from sparknotes the characters and their profiles are clear! In this passage, Rosemary (The main character an American Actress) is awake in the night because she can not sleep thinking about her new love.

"It was a limpid black night, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. The horn of the car ahead was muffled by the resistance of the thick air. Brady's chauffeur drove slowly; the taillight of the other car appeared from time to time at turnings- then not at all. But after ten minutes it came into sight again, drawn up at the side of the road. Brady's chauffeur slowed up behind but immediately it began to roll foreward slowly and they passed it. In the instant they passed it they heard a blur of voices from behind the reticence of the limousine adn saw that the Diver's chauffeur was grinning. Then they went on, going fast through the alternating banks of darkness and thin night, decending at last in a series of roller-coaster swoops, to the great bulk of Guasse's Hotel.

Rosemary dozed for three hours and then lay awake suspended in the moonshine. Cloaked by the erotic darkness she exhausted the future quickly, with all the eventualities that might lead up to a kiss, but with the kiss itself as blurred as a kiss in pictures. She changed position in bed deliberately, the first sign of insomnia she had ever had, and tried to think with her mother's mind about the question. In this process she was often acute beyond her experience, with remembered things from old conversations that had gone into her half-heard."chapter 9

I love this passage because of the array of emotions that Scott Fitzgerald portrays through one character in one scene.I also love the words like "cloaked", "erotic" and "suspended" it adds so much power into the sentances.The aura of romance, fashon, wealth and summer also make the book so much more enjoyable! I will probably read this book again this summer when -like Rosemary- visiting the beach.

"Freeze Tag" by Caroline B. Cooney

The latest book i have read is - yet another- Caroline B. Cooney novel called "Freeze Tag".The kids in the neighbor hood, Megan, West, and Lannie used to play freeze tag until the day when Lannie froze Megan and West. Since that day, Megan and West grew up and became high school sweethearts. Until this year they havent seen Lannie ever since the day she froze them. Now Lannie will do anything to have West, even if it means freezing Megan to death.

"The door of the truck cab was open.
Lannie was swinging on it, pushing herself back and forth with one small foot.She was smiling as she looked inside.
She knew Tuesday and Brown had joined her, but she did not look at them.She was too pleased by what was inside the Chevy.
Brown took Tuesday's hand. She was glad to grip on it.They did not let themselves touch Lannie. They peered into the truck.
Two statues. Cold and white as marble.Carved in a half embrace; lips not quite touching;eyes not quite closed.
Lannie chuckled. "Hello, Tuesday", "Hello, Brown."
The snow ceased to fall.The wind ceased to blow.The world was smooth and pure and white. It lay soft and glittering and glowing on all sides.
"Are they dead?" whispered Brown
"Just frozen" The chuckle was full of rage. "pg.81

In this quote Lannie has found West and Megan in West's truck about to kiss. Lannie freezes them just as Tuesday and Brown come to see what Lannie is up to. Tuesday and Brown are the sibblings of West and Megan. What i love about this quote is the suspence and power in Caroline B Cooney's writing. In this quote I especially love the punctuation usage, such as the short sentances, and the semicolons . I think this continues to add to the power in that one litte paragraph.

1-400 "The Rise and Fall Of a Teen-Age Wacko" by Mary Anderson

The book "The Rise and Fall Of a Teen-Age Wacko" by Mary Anderson is about a girl named Laura and her adventures throughout New York City during the summer. Her adventures range from bidding for the first time at an elite auction house, to falling on the set of a filming movie. In this part of the book Laura is reflecting on her day alone in New York, and the character Sara is a young girl who Laura babysits.

"That evening i went through my usual ritual: frying up garlic and onions, then calling my folks. I told them I'd made 16 dollars that day. I'd take Sara on another excursion the next day and make the same. Mom said she was happy, but she didn't sound it. Dad went through the double latching [the door] again, though I assured him I was perfectly safe.
Why do parents make such a fuss over nothing?
Being independent was easy!
I prepared my dinner of fresh fruits, cold cucumber and carrot sticks, then looked through the newspaper, making lists of possible places to take Sara the next day. But i'd bring money next time, in case we went somplace affordable."

pg81

I like this part because it reminds me of my sister living in New York last summer. Like laura she babysat and had a ball learning to be independent. I believe that all teens should get an experience like this, because it lets the teen know that their parent trusts them and it also lets the teen know what life will be like in the future and how to deal with various problems that may occur.

Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney

In this book a girl named Remy is a strait "A" student on the varsity basketball team who has it all going for her in life. Morgan is the rich son of a politician who also has no worries about the future .They both meet in drivers ed class, fall in love, and run a christmas pageant together for the whole city. While out with their friends taking a joy ride at night, they all decide to steal street signs as suveniers of the perfect night. Remy and Morgan decide to steal a stop sign as their reminder. Later that night a woman with a young child and new husband waiting for her at home dies because of the missing stop sign.They both hold the secret until their guilt causes them to give in and admit to the lady's family what really happened.

"Do they let killers run pageants? Thought Morgan The thing is not to think about it. If I think about it, somebody might see it in my eyes. Be able to tell what I did. So I won't think about it." p. 75

In this quote Morgan is thinking of himself as a killer and murderer. In a way he is, but not directly. In the quote he is almost being a little bit sarcastic, which made me wonder if he fully understands what he did.

Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Hesser 1-150

Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser is about a teenage girl that slowly develops O.C.D, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.She is "driven to Hail Mary every time she hears a cuss word", and she has to "touch the doorknob and then push her fingers to her lips 33 times before she can leave the house." This book is funny yet still serious as you get to follow and understand how the disorder slowly takes over the main character; Tara.

At this part of the book (actually the opening paragraphs) Tara is hearing the childhood rhyme "step on a crack and you break your mother's back!" This is what first triggers her OCD.

"Step on a crack, break your mother's back! The first time I heard
that stupid rhyme was when I was eleven years old and still in possession of my
own thoughts.
At first I thought the rhyme was stupid. Step on a crack, break your
mother's back! When I couldn't get it out of my head, I thought it
was annoying.Step on a crack, break your mother's back! Finally I
thought it was scary. But no matter what I thought about it, I couldn't stop
thinking it. Actually, it was more as if I couldn't stop hearing it in my head
over and over again."pg.1

This passage made me remember the guilt and sorrow it caused me every time I stepped on a crack when I was 8 years old; I couldn't help but think that it could possibly happen, and the fact that I would do it deliberately would fill me with guilt. But I also find the actual placement of the phrase in the paragraphs. It made it seem like she was actually involuntarily thinking about the phrase as she was telling the story as her problem caused her to do.

The Music of The Dolphins 1-181

"The Music of The Dolphins" by Karen Hesse is a fictional book about a young teen who is found living among a pod of dolphins off the shores of Cuba . When the coast guards find her, they take her to an institution to teach her about learning and music. The whole book is in first person as we get to read Mila's thoughts that she can not express to the teachers at the institution. As the book goes on, her thoughts become more sophisticated and intellectual and she is able to express her ideas more evenly with the teachers. In this part of the book, the teachers at the institution have put Mila in a room alone and are showing her the video of her rescue.

In that television I see a girl with long, long hair. She is not wearing
any clothes. She is on a beach. I am interested to see a girl on the beach. I
watch. Then she is not on the beach.She is in a new place, wrapped up in a
blanked. A hand offers the girl a drink. The girl sees the water in a cup, but
she is not certain what to do . First her finger dips in the water. Then her
finger goes to her mouth. The girl decides the water is good to drink, and she
makes a cup with her hands. She does not know how to drink from a paper cup. She
drinks water poured form the cup into her hands. The girl is very short. Her
ears are very big.

Then I see Doctor Beck and Sandy inside the television. They are with
the little big-ear girl. They are trapped in the television with her. I run to
the television to help Sandy and Dr.Beck get out. I beat the television with my
shoulder. I cannot make the wall to come down. I take my chair. I throw my chair
at the television. Lights flash everywhere. I jump away. Little lights snapping
and popping. Then the lights are gone. But Dr.Beck and Sandy are gone too.

I think that this passage almost relates to EL&IC because in many ways she is still young and can not let go of being a child- or in this case a dolphin. Also, it is weird to see how fast she can loose the information she was taught, and how she feels strongest as a dolphin rather than a human. It hurts me to see that she learned so much, but in some ways she interpereted it the wrong way . That is what lead her to not understanding.