Notes on “Star Food” CLASS NOTES

Themes Choices pg. 163 paragraph 2 “I went downstairs and told my father I was ready to catch her.” Disappointment pg. 146 Success pg. 148 Goals pp. 146-148 Example for the 3 themes: “From the time we first had the star on the roof, my mother believed her only son was destined for limited fame.”

Themes Continued Superstition pg. 158 “I thought about the woman and sometimes I looked for silhouettes in the in the shapes between the clouds.” (pg. 158) Character Growth “The summer I turned eighteen I disappointed both my parents for the first time. (pg. 146; paragraph 1) “Now I waited for rare things because it seemed to me that if you traced the lives of men you arrived at some sort of sign, rainstorm at one horizon and sunlight at the other.” (pg. 158; paragraph 1)

Character Growth Continued 3. “How did human beings understand each other across huge spaces except with the lowest of ideas.” (pg. 160) 4. “Look I whispered, why are you doing this to me?” 5. “I felt alone in the world in the way that makes me aware of the sound of temperature.” (pp. 166, 167)

Vocabulary 1. incandescent 2. atomizer 3. samovar 4. receptacle 5. eaves 6. dormer 7. retrospect