Week 5- Entry A

Vocabulary-

(p 224) cruets- bottles for holding condiments like oil or vinegar

(p 225) victuals- food supply, provisions

Appeals-

1. (p 199) “The town clock struck nine forty-five.” This logical appeal is very straight forward and uses an exact time.
2. (p 199) “The moon was high and filled all the sky with a warm but wintry light.” This sentence appeals emotionally because the reader can feel and see the moon described as warm and wintry.
3. (p 237) “Now Tom and Douglas and Grandfather stood as they had stood three months, or was it three long centuries ago.” This sentence exhibits appeals to logic and emotion. Three months is the logical actual amount of time and three long centuries is the emotional amount of time it felt like.

Quote-

(p 236) “Numbered from one to ninety-odd, there the ketchup bottles, most of them full now, stood burning in the cellar twilight, one for every living summer day. […] Better than putting things in the attic you never use again. This way, you get to live the summer over for a minute or two here or there along the way through the winter, and when the bottles are empty the summer’s gone for good and no regrets and no sentimental trash lying about for you to stumble over forty years from now. Clean, smokeless, efficient, that’s dandelion wine.” Don’t dwell on the past. Live in the present while things change around you. Roll with the new changes and live a fulfilled life.

Theme-

As I have said so many times in my previous blogs, a dominant theme of this memoir is change. Douglas goes through and witnesses a large amount of changes throughout the summer of 1928. Sometimes, he gets caught up in them and doesn’t want to move on with his life, but eventually he realizes he has to live his life the way he wants to. When things are out of his control, he learns to control himself because that’s only the best he can do.