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Girl with a Pearl Earring
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

AANTEKENINGEN BOEK

Thesis; During the story the main character Griet changes a lot in her behaviour and attitude towards her environment.

Information | Page | Quote | The shiness of Griet in the beginning towards Vermeer | 5 | ‘No, Sir’ I hesitated. I could not say why I had laid out the vegetables as I did. I simply set them as I felt they should be, but I was too frightened to say so to a gentleman’ | | | ‘I did not want him to think I was idle’ | She hides under her cap 2 | 12 | ‘The man poling the boat called out a greeting me. I merely nodded and lowered my head so that the edge of my cap hid my face’ | | 18 | ‘When Catharina narrowed her eyes I realised she knew everything I was thinking. I turned my head so that my cap hid my face’ | She is Protestant and sleeps in a room with a Catholic painting at the end of her bed | 32 | ‘I could not imagine sleeping in the room with the painting. I wanted to take it down but did not dare’ | Her behaviour starts to change, she sounds like Catharina3 | 72 | ‘I did not like her tone, nor what she said. ‘Please wake him and tell him his sister is here.’ I demanded. I sounded a bit like Catharina.’ | For the first time she let her thoughts truly reveal to herself about Vermeer5 | 82 | ‘I did not like to think of him in that way. With his wife and children. I preferred tot hink of him alone in his studio. Or not alone, but with only me’ | She becomes a better lyer, and does do this more often | 98 | ‘My mother looked at me reproachfully. She knew when I lied. I was getting better at it, though’ | Vermeer shows hints that he wants to paint/look at Griet | 104 | ‘One morning while I was cleaning he came in and asked me to stand in for the baker’s daugther, who had taken ill and could not come. ‘I want to look for a moment’ He explained. ‘Someone must stand there’ | How much has changed since a couple of months | 105 | ‘How much has changed since that morning, I

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