Sunday, October 12, 2008

10-12-08 5/4/3/2/1/

5 Comments
1. Augusten seems to have grown up between the beginning of the book and chapter 3 because at first he was nine and now he is "twelve but felt at least fourteen" (p.30)
2. Augusten only had two friends but he's not friends with them anymore because his mom somehow pissed off their mothers to the point that their children aren't allowed to hang out with eachother.
3. Augusten was nervous around Dr:Finch because he didn't want him to know that he was scared of his house and kids.
4. As a kid Augusten was hated and called freak and faggot
5. Augusten was so mad that his mom was going to make him stay at Dr:Finch's house for a week that he fantasized about cutting her fingers off with a knife he seen that had an electrical current running through it that he called an electric knife.

4 Questions
1.when did shock-therapy become illegal in the United States?
2. Do old people really have Masturbatoriums?(in the book it's a room the old psychiatrist would ditch patients to go... yeh...)
3.the doctor in the book claims outward anger is healthier than depression, is that true, is it really better for Augusten's be homicidal and kill his mother instead of bieng depressed?
4.what does it mean when someone get's a sensation of falling when they're sitting/

3 Words
1. squalor- dirtyness(p.40)
2- embroidery- art of threading (p.42)
3.panic- a sudden overpowering terror(p.50)

2 Literary Terms
1.buzzed -onomatopeoia
2. "but I didn't realize he was a monster" (p.52) -metaphor

1 Overview sentence
1. Augusten spends some time in Dr:Finch's house and he becomes very scared of the kids and house because they're messy and not very orderly, and his mom tells him he is going to have to spend an entire week alone with the Finch family.

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