The Connotations Of The Term Home House Analysis

1. I thought that Henrietta’s childhood years in Clover were hard, troubling, peculiar, and somber. She had to do difficult work everyday for most of the day. Her and her cousins did all kinds of farm work that made me tired just reading. I know there is no way that I could do that and they did it at a young age. I thought that the way the cousins liked each other was peculiar. I do not know if back then that was how it was, but today it is kind of creepy. The fact that she had to live with her grandpa because her mom died and her dad could not take of her made me sad and sympathetic for her. She also got split up from her siblings, which made it even more depressing.
2. The connotations of the term home-house is a place where everyone is comfortable
Skloot describes when Henrietta went to auction with her grandpa and how nighttime in the warehouse would be “a time of booze, gambling, prostitution, and occasional murders” (21). The application of parallelism emphasizes the precarious situation Henrietta was in due to all of the negative events that would take place at night. This was a dangerous place for kids to be; yet, Henrietta and her cousins were there to witness all of this. They had to grow up faster than what they should, but that was how life was back then. Henrietta and her cousins would fall asleep in the basement of the warehouse “to the sound of laughter and clanking bottles, and the smell of dried tobacco” (21). Polsyndeton causes the reader to understand the situation she is in by being able to hear and smell what she went through. People can picture themselves in the basement with all of these sounds and smells and feel what it was like for Henrietta growing up. I selected the third full paragraph on page 21 because it showed how Henrietta and her family was treated and that even kids would be put in less than ideal places to sleep with raucous around them due to their skin being dark. For her it was a fun trip that would be rewarded at the end. It showed her resilience to take a negative and turn it into a positive. I also could not believe that their would be murders at these auctions either and I wondered if Henrietta was ever fearful when at the
The medical terms that would be used to describe Elsie’s condition are epilepsy, mental retardation, or neurosyphilis. The terms used by Henrietta’s friends and family are simple and touched. The medical terms describe her condition as it is and the terms used by friends and family are gentle and try to explain her condition even though they are not sure what is wrong with Elsie. The connotation of the medical term is that Elsie is handicap or unable to take care of herself because her brain did not mature properly. The connotation of the terms used by friends and family is that Elsie’s condition is how she is supposed to be and there is no way to change it. As if right when she was born it was meant for her to have this