Vanity Fair: Chapter II

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.       <!--[endif]-->Read as far as line 19

How would you describe the state of mind of the two girls? Choose from the adjectives below.

Miss. Jemima: satisfied, relaxed

Miss. Sedley: nervous

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.       <!--[endif]-->Read up to the end

<!--[if !supportLists]-->a)      <!--[endif]--> <!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->List the word and phrases that convey Rebecca’s feelings for the school and find the reasons that caused such feelings.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->I hate the whole house                                                             

                                                                                               For two years I have only had                                             

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->I hope I may ever set eyes on it again                                      insults and outrage from her.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->If Miss Pinkerton were there I wouldn’t pick her out                 I have been treated worse that               

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Laughing                                                                                    any servant in the kitchen.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->I hate her with all my soul                                                         I have never had a friend.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->b)      <!--[endif]-->Describe Amelia’s reactions to Rebecca’s behaviour and comments quoting from the text.

Amelia was flurried by Rebecca’s insolence. She respected her French teacher indeed she tried to hush Rebecca when she stared to insult the teacher and the school. “Rebecca, for shame”, “cried Miss Sedley”…

<!--[if !supportLists]-->c)       <!--[endif]-->Amelia’s personality: conformist, submissive

Rebecca’s personality: revengeful, impulsive, authoritarian

<!--[if !supportLists]-->3.       <!--[endif]-->Consider narrative technique

<!--[if !supportLists]-->a)      <!--[endif]-->The narrator is a voice outside the story.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->b)      <!--[endif]-->The episode is about an sixty-eight gentleman. He tell Miss Sedley that even he is old he keeps to dream Dr. Raine fogging him like when he was at school. I think that Miss Sedley tells the story in order to underline the difference between his behaviour and Rebecca’s. She is still scared from her teachers but Rebecca is not, even if the school is just finished.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->c)       <!--[endif]-->I think that the adjective “ heroical” is used in an ironic way.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->d)      <!--[endif]-->The reader is free to judge the characters.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->4.       <!--[endif]-->Find in the text example where the narrator:

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Addresses the reader: we may be pretty certain; we have selected

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Digresses: who said to me one morning at breakfast;

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Makes general comments: the world is a looking-glass

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Offer more generalization

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Refers to the writing of the novel: mentioned in the last chapter;