**2011 Oct international CR**

Lucazzz
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:13:55 +0000

I have edited zth0908123’s post and added some of my personal thoughts:

Grandma
DEBATABLE

1. Tone: The joke about old age half-hearted humorous vs self mocking (other choices: deliberate nonchalance and reluctant acceptance)

2. “light”: gentle vs trivial

3. what does the bit about how the air was thick and fragrant show about the writer’s emotions - intense pleasure vs escalating tension

AGREED
4) Paradise: “the experience was beyond any past experience or expectation” (this is the correct answer because the place is not the narrator’s home)
5) The small grand aunt’s attitude: 1.forceful and direct (forceful: strong shoulders; direct: the aunt tells the narrator how he should call her, implying he’s going to be her niece’s husband)
6) why suspicion irony? because usually evokes negative expectation.
7) Laughter circled them - like a living thing
8) Confrontational relationship between grand aunt and his wife
9) The transition of paragraph 1 to 2 - general to specific
10) what he meant from saying that he had expected someone really tired and crinkly: he had been expecting someone visibly aging

NEW ONE: 11) In the last passage, the author use ____ to describe the aunt ===> I chose something like “dialogue put within narrative”