pages 59-86

Mr. Rochester comes to marry Antoinette, but for him to come and marry her his is paid 30,000 pounds. I think Rochester agrees to marry this girl for the money and because in one of his letters he told his father that he will not be useless and beg for money anymore. So I believe he agreed to marry someone he has never meet to proved to his father and brother he is not useless. Did Mr. Mason offer so much money to Mr. Rochester because he knew that if he didn't pay someone to marry his step-daughter no one would marry her. The day before the wedding when going to the house to it starts to rain and Antoinette sees an old friend. Was this an old friend or was it one of the slaves that burnt down the house? When they arrived at the house four servants are there to greet them. This four people came from the old plantation, did they not uprise and take part in the plan to burn down the house or did they and claim they didn't so they weren't out of a job? On the day of the wedding Antoinette refused to marry; I believe that she refused to marry because she found out that Mr. Rochester was being paid to marry her and did not want to give him the money. Mr. Rochester also took note on how she never wanted to get out of bed and her moods changed at night. I believe that this is foreshadowing how she is going to go crazy and this is the start.

Wide Sargasso Sea pg. 17-33

Overall I think that this will be an interesting book to read. I thought the book started out slow, which caused me to be confused. I didn’t understand at first that the mother was Jamaican and the father that past away was white.  I found the friendship between the girl and Tia to be an interesting one. Did they meet by walking past each other everyday or were they introduced? I found the scene when Tia stole the dress and took the pennies to really show how poor she was and that she would take anything that she could get.  I think that the mother remarried to have someone to fix up the house and bring an income into the home so her and her two kids didn’t have to struggle through life. The ending part where the mother is asking to leave, I believe she wants to leave to get away from the people that killed her horse and the fact that she believes that she is cursed. I have a few questions: How old is the narrator? Is the sun mentally handicapped that is why he can’t talk and walk?  How did the father fall in love with a slave daughter? And can they not own slaves anymore because the US outlawed slavery?