BULLETIN: Annotation Assignment #1 Alert (PLEASE READ!!!)

TOPIC: Setting Imagery

PASSAGES: Students should annotate the following passages:

PASSAGE 1: “The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry. I was thankful, very thankful that I had seen it. So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all –plus c’est la meme chose, plus ca change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even death by violence.” (Chapter 1)

PASSAGE 2: “The next morning I saw dawn for the first time. It began not as the gorgeous fanfare over the ocean I had expected, but as a strange gray thing like sunshine seen through burlap. I looked over to see if Phineas was awake. He was asleep, although in this drained light he looked dead too, dead gray waves hissing mordantly along the beach, which was gray and dead-looking itself.” (Chapter 4)