Events up to chapter 25

Part two - Vermont
Chapter 16: Cadence made a story about a king and his three daughters. The youngest daughter might be his heiress lastly.
Chapter 17: After the trip to Europe, Cadence missed the liars a lot and she gave a lot of her stuffs away.
Chapter 18: Cadence talked to her mom about her lost memories, but her mother didn't want to mention it. She thought it's better to make Cadence realized it by herself.
Chapter 19: Granddad came to Vermont to see Cadence and talked to Penny, her mom. His mind wasn't so clear and he became old. He talked a lot about their Sinclair family. Cadence dyed her hair to black.
Chapter 20: Cadence made a story that a king sent his daughters to kill an evil dragon and they died.
Chapter 21: Cadence maintained that she didn't love Gat anymore and gave away things that related to Gat.
Chapter 22: Taft called Cadence surprisingly. He asked if Cadence was a drug addict. Cadence let him to get help from Mirren.
Chapter 23: Cadence finally got back to the Beechwood Island again. She saw Aunt Carrie, and she pretend to be normal again even though she already got different. Then, she saw the liars; she saw Gat once again.
Chapter 24: Cadence talked with the littles in the family, she got confused with the changes in the island. Also, she found something strange.
Chapter 25: The liars talked with Cadence a lot. They are still the same but Cadence was so different. She didn't ask why they never see her after the accident. They talked about the New Clairmont.

Vocabularies

Glamorous P.39

Adj.

Having an air of allure, romance and excitement – charming

Book: it is hardly glamorous the way Mummy and I quarrel now that Dad is gone.

Stagger P.30

V.

Walk as if unable to control one's movements

Book: I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony.

Recuperate P.32

V.

Regain a former condition after a financial loss.

Book: Mummy took me home to Vermont to recuperate.

Villainous P.32

Adj.

A villainous person is very bad and willing to harm other people or break the law in order to get what he or she wants.

Book: they always look villainous in the dark of the evening.

Heroine. 39
N.

The main good female character in a work of fiction

Book: When she’s there, her pale skin and watery eyes make her look glamorously tragic, like a literary heroine wasting from consumption.

Agony 30
N.

Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

Book: I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony.

Ivory 28

Adj.

A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

Book: inside, it is full of original New York cartoons, family photos, embroidered pillows, small statues, ivory paperweights, taxidermied fish on plaques.

shore 32 n.

the land along the edge of a body of water

Book: There are big rocks in off the shore, craggy and black.

hilariously p31

Adv. marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter

Book: covertly,  hilariously, behind Granddad’s black while he drove the motorboat.

stunning p27

Adj. strikingly beautiful or attractive

She was a stunning woman, even when she was old.

pitiful p36
Adj.

inspiring mixed contempt and pity

Different from my pitiful voice messages, these were charming, darling notes from a person without headaches.


collapse vt. an abrupt failure of function or health
12“I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony, hoping no one in the family would notice.”
Giddy adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
11“Johnny, Mirren, Gat, and I snuck glasses of wine and felt giddy and silly.”
embroidered adj adorned with embroidery
11“Inside, it is full of original New Yorker cartoons, family photos, embroidered pillows, small statues, ivory paperweights, taxidermied fish on plaques.”
Surpasses 
V. distinguish oneself
16“Eventually she surpasses her employer in skill and her food is known throughout the land”




(n.)Taxidermy: the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance
 11“Inside, it is full of original New Yorker cartoons, family photos, embroidered pillows, small statues, ivory paperweights, taxidermied fish on plaques.”
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Quarrel: an angry dispute
15“It is hardly glamorous the way Mummy and I quarrel now that Dad is gone.”
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Constellation: an arrangement of parts or elements
8“I was glad Gat didn’t try to sound knowledgeable about constellations or say stupid stuff about wishing on stars.”
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Snorkeling: skin diving with a snorkel
11“WHEN I WASN’T bleeding, and when Mirren and Johnny were snorkeling or wrangling the littles, or when everyone lay on couches watching movies on the Clairmont flat-screen, Gat and I hid away.”
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Stagger: an unsteady uneven gait
11“I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony, hoping no one in the family would notice. Especially not Mummy.”
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Traumatic: of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body
13“Migraine headaches caused by traumatic brain injury.”
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10 vocabs

turret P.28
A turret is a small narrow tower on top of a building or a larger tower.
stagger P.30
Walk as if unable to control one's movements
astonishment P.30
The feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising
villainous P.32
A villainous person is very bad and willing to harm other people or break the law in order to get what he or she wants.
recuperate P.32
regain a former condition after a financial loss
meningitis P34
infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea
chalky P.35
composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk
willowy P.38
slender and graceful
glamorous P.39
having an air of allure, romance and excitement - charming
fluorescent P.39
emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source

A beautiful family, a liars’ family

The new book that the class chose to read was “We were Liars”, written by E. Lockhart. It was a mystery fiction book, which I didn’t know what the mystery is until now. I have read to chapter 5, but each chapters were short and the writer’s language using was concise. Thus, I thought I only got some basic information about the book. Actually, I read it so carefully that I wouldn’t want to miss any important sentence will confused my future reading.

The story started by introducing their family. They were the Sinclairs, who owned a private island. They were all beautiful and noble; they were all smart and athletic; they were all rich; and they were all happy. It made me to think about if that was even a lie. However, when I read chapter 2, I made sure that they were not that happy. Cadence was the main character and the narrator of the book, but actually, she wasn’t a reliable one. Her dad left her mom, Penny, and her in her 15^th year of being the Sinclairs. It’s because he didn’t want to lie, or smile or being that family anymore. Cadence felt sad and of course she lost her temper, but her mom just told her to come down and be normal. In fact, it was what they usually did. They have to pretend to be happy and always smile. Was that a beautiful family? I asked myself.

Then, the story flashed back to the 8^th summer in her life. There was a rule that all the Sinclair daughters should go back to Beechwood Island every summer. Cadence’s grandparents had three daughters, Penny, Carrie and Bess. Cadence was Penny’s daughter. Carrie’s husband also left her already; the reason hasn’t mentioned yet, but I think it might be the same reason that Cadence’s father left. And she have had a new boy friend called Ed. Ed was not as similar as the Sinclairs; he has dark skin, just like the Indians, and black hair. He brought his nephew with him, which called Gat. Johnny was Carrie’s son, and he’s bounce, effort and snark. Mirren was Bess’s daughter, and she’s sweet, curiosity and rain. Cadence, Mirren, Johnny and Gat combined together and were called, the liars. Nevertheless, I didn’t know the reason yet.

Although Ed and Gat looked so different from the other Sinclairs, Cadence loved Gat straightforwardly. In chapter 5, Cadence and Gat went to a boat together and then went to swim in the cold water. Then, Gat found that Cadence was beautiful and Cadence found that they match each other. Cadence had said that, ”I am not talking about fate. I don’t believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural.” However, Cadence knew that she loved the feeling that they seemed to understand each other so well.

I wanted to say that I wish the young love would insist for a long time, but my curiosity refused my mind with the decision of with stop reading the book. I’m sure that the following chapters are attractive and I wish to understand the plots soon.

chapter10 reaction

In the end of the book, which is chapter 10, Lorenzo’s “ski week” was going to end and so Olivia needed to leave the cellar. I knew that Lorenzo changed to care about others and he was happy that Olivia truly understood what he was like. It made me feel warm that he got some one he cared about and he started to think in the way of other. I felt happy of him. I thought Olivia would die before she left Lorenzo’s home but actually she died a long time later. They promised each other to live and not letting the other alone. I like the way they love each other and kind of disappointed that they didn’t met once again before Olivia’s death.

summary 8 and 9

Lorenzo wanted to help Olivia; he wanted to save her. He went out the cellar to get medicine. Silver Monkey was having rest while he went out. He was lucky. He went to the hospital but he realized that he didn’t achieve his promise of meet his grandmother. He got the medicine, without interrupting any nurses or doctors. No one noticed him, but he was entangled. Grandma Laura was sick heavily. Finally, he decided to go see her. She could have been dead; she’s extremely slim and sick. Grandma Laura asked him to tell a story, and he chose a story of a little pool-cleaning robot. The robot has been invented to kill Sadam, but it lastly fell in to a never-ending swimming pool, which is the ocean, and disappear. And two years later, the scientist found it with the eggs they lay. A nurse came, and he ran away. He took the risk to be found by the nurses, his parents, the silvery monkey, to find sleeping pill and pain killer for Olivia. When he got back, he thought Olivia was dead. He felt so tired, which is more than any time he felt in all of his life. He wanted to sleep that he felt too tired. However, Olivia moved her finger and opened her eyes. She just took two sleeping pills so she wanted to sleep. He felt relax a lot, and fell asleep with her.

Haiku revise

Love
Love would never come
Unless people go find it
It won't be so long

Spring
Spring comes silently,
Twist flowers into a wreath.
Sky is always bright.

Thinking question

1. If Lorenzo doesn't want Olivia to live in the cellar, would Olivia really tell their dad about it?
2. Why Olivia doesn't want to meet their dad for help?
3. What kind of personality does Olivia has?