 | When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.- When I think of this quote I think that Ellen might be a little physco but then again I don’t blame her because of the way her father treated her. |
| My heart can be the one that beats, hers has stopped. I feel that this is when Ellen really feels like she has had enough of her father. Her mother has just died and she feel that her mother couldn’t handle him but she will be able to leave instead of dying. |
GROUP DISSCUSION QUESTIONS
| Why doesn’t Ellen call the hospital when she finds out her mother has overdosed? |
| Why does Ellen’s grandmother dislike her so much? |
*No matter how I turn my head when I look I still seem
like a stranger in my own self?
I think that Ellen feel that she does not deserve what she all has at that time and place. I think that she does not really quite know who she is yet.
| It is about time I thought. Yes Lord it is about time. Finally she can get away from her father and everything that had to do with him. She can get away from his drunkenness and her old lifestyle. |
VOCABULARY WORD
* terrarium-
Quotes from Ellen Foster- Third Reading 60-101
| She wanted me so hard to be like him. She reminded me all the time how me and him favored and acted alike. I think that Ellen’s grandmother said that because she is very upset about her daughter dying. She hated Ellen’s father ever since she met him. She blames him for the death of her daughter, and since he isn’t around to yell at she has to take it out on Ellen because she is a part of him. |
| One day she got up on her elbows and said to me clear like she had come out of a long fever, Ellen you helped him didn’t you? Ellen’s grandmother thinks that Ellen loves her father more than her mother. Her grandmother knew that her daughters husband did not like his wife so he wanted to kill her and he got Ellen’s help with it. Ellen’s grandmother even slaps her and tells her to cry about her father dying. To cry more than she did over her mother’s death. |
| Drawing was handed in. |
*And I stood there feeling wise that I knew what could be true and what all could happen even when you least expect it. She feels like this because she finally has a family that loves her and that she loves back. She feels so grateful to be with them and that great things happen when you do not expect them to.
| And all this time I thought I had the hardest row to hoe. When she lived with her father she felt that she had the worst life possible. That everything went wrong for her. When she finally moves into a home she realizes how good she has it now and how bad some people do still have it. |
5)A connection between something in the book and another piece of literature. This book showed how some people live and what they have to go through eachday. When they talk about slaves working outside and how rasest some people are it makes you really think. Some past books I have read have had slavery, poverty, and deaths in it much like this book.