Relative Work

Our family is forever linked to our very core (whether we like it or not).  They are the people present in our lives from the beginning (and 75%of our personality is set before we enter kindergarten).  But, they are their own individuals.  They act independently from us, often without a second thought as to how their actions can have a (sometimes) profound effect on who we are and the path our lives take.  Over the next 20 minutes, look deeply at one member of your family (either immediate or extended).  Who is this person?  What makes them special, difficult, wonderful, impactful, etc.?  Chart specific things they say, actions they take and effects they have on your life.

-Take home tonight and type up (should be 1-2 pages)

-Due Monday

P&P Ex - Lydia's actions and the Bennett sisters

Ch. 2:

“Oh!” said Lydia said stoutly, “I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I’m the tallest.”

Ch. 41:

“If you were aware,” said Elizabeth, “ of the very great disadvantage to us all, which must arise from the public notice of Lydia’s unguarded and imprudent manner; nay, which has already risen from it, I am sure you would judge differently in the affair.”

“Kitty is also comprehended.  She will follow wherever Lydia leads.  Vain, ignorant, idle, and absolutely uncontrolled!”

Ch. 43: 

"Lydia will never be easy until she has exposed herself in some public place or other, and we can never expect her to do it with so little expense or inconvenience to her family as under the present circumstances."

“Indeed you are mistaken. I have no such injuries to resent. It is not of particular, but of general evils, which I am now complaining. Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character. Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance and emptiness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal contempt which her rage for admiration will excite.

Letter on p 195:

See yesterday’s close reading for reference.