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Chapter 2 - Teaching the cat to yawnIn the chapter 2, it talk about the Tull family life. Pearl think about our life when her husband still stay with her. Cody - the first son of Pearl and Beck, he realize that he couldn't picture his father's most recent time with them and try to find some scene that would explain Beck's leaving. Then one Saturday, Jenny - the last daughter of Pearl talk to Cody that she think her dad doesn't come home anymore, he left them. Sometimes Cody dream about his father. School started and Cody entered ninth grade. He and his two best friends landed in the same homeroom. Sometimes Pete and Boyd came home with him, they always walked the long way, avoiding the grocery store where Cody's mother worked. At the supper, their mom complain a lot about them, neightbors always complain them and make their mom upset as "well, Mrs Tull, that oldest boy of yours is certainly grown up. I saw him with a pack of Camels in the street in front of the Barlow girl's house". Shortly before Thanksgiving, a girl named Edith Taber tranfered to their school. He caught up and walked beside her. She seemed to welcome his company and talked to him nearly non-stop. After dinner in Thanksgiving, they play game - Monopoly and then Cody and Ezra go out, and Cody just know that Ezra know Edith Taber, too. Ezra came her home and she show him her whistle, when she met him in the street and play his whistle. on Monday morning, Edith avoid Cody, she doesn't want to talk with him. He upset and walked home alone, long after the others had left, choosing streets where he'd be certain not to run into Edith or her friends. Het let himseft into the home. He passed Jenny's room, he climed on up to his own room and set his books before he realized Ezra was there and sleep. Cody knoelt beside his bed and pulled from beneath it a half-filled bottle of bourbon, and empty gin bottle, and strewed them around Ezra, arrange them just right. He took out his father's camera in the closet. He want to take a picture for Ezra. But Ezra's cat seemed mildly disturbed. Suddenly, Cody think about the yawn, it would have made a wonderful picture: dead beat Ezra and his no account cat, both with gaping mouths. And then he said "Alicia? Yawn" but he can't teach him to yawn. However he took the picture for Ezra.In my opinion, I think Pearl's children always want their dad come back home, but he didn't anymore. About Cody, he is oldest brother in their family but he didn't help his mom to do something in home. He always make his mom upset. He is fourteen but he always think about girl and always go with them. Now, I don't like Cody and empathy with Pearl, she have to work hard for her family without her husband and take care her children. I think the story is more interesting than chapter 1. I will keep going to read it and i hope you guide like it as me. What do you think in the chapter 3? I will tell you when I finish it next weekend. Thanks for your reading. See u guide.

Dinner at the homesick restaurant - P34-65

Chapter 2 - Teaching the cat to yawn
In the chapter 2, it talk about the Tull family life. Pearl think about our life when her husband still stay with her. Cody - the first son of Pearl and Beck, he realize that he couldn't picture his father's most recent time with them and try to find some scene that would explain Beck's leaving. Then one Saturday, Jenny - the last daughter of Pearl talk to Cody that she think her dad doesn't come home anymore, he left them. Sometimes Cody dream about his father. School started and Cody entered ninth grade. He and his two best friends landed in the same homeroom. Sometimes Pete and Boyd came home with him, they always walked the long way, avoiding the grocery store where Cody's mother worked. At the supper, their mom complain a lot about them, neightbors always complain them and make their mom upset as "well, Mrs Tull, that oldest boy of yours is certainly grown up. I saw him with a pack of Camels in the street in front of the Barlow girl's house". Shortly before Thanksgiving, a girl named Edith Taber tranfered to their school. He caught up and walked beside her. She seemed to welcome his company and talked to him nearly non-stop. After dinner in Thanksgiving, they play game - Monopoly and then Cody and Ezra go out, and Cody just know that Ezra know Edith Taber, too. Ezra came her home and she show him her whistle, when she met him in the street and play his whistle. on Monday morning, Edith avoid Cody, she doesn't want to talk with him. He upset and walked home alone, long after the others had left, choosing streets where he'd be certain not to run into Edith or her friends. Het let himseft into the home. He passed Jenny's room, he climed on up to his own room and set his books before he realized Ezra was there and sleep. Cody knoelt beside his bed and pulled from beneath it a half-filled bottle of bourbon, and empty gin bottle, and strewed them around Ezra, arrange them just right. He took out his father's camera in the closet. He want to take a picture for Ezra. But Ezra's cat seemed mildly disturbed. Suddenly, Cody think about the yawn, it would have made a wonderful picture: dead beat Ezra and his no account cat, both with gaping mouths. And then he said "Alicia? Yawn" but he can't teach him to yawn. However he took the picture for Ezra.

In my opinion, I think Pearl's children always want their dad come back home, but he didn't anymore. About Cody, he is oldest brother in their family but he didn't help his mom to do something in home. He always make his mom upset. He is fourteen but he always think about girl and always go with them. Now, I don't like Cody and empathy with Pearl, she have to work hard for her family without her husband and take care her children. I think the story is more interesting than chapter 1. I will keep going to read it and i hope you guide like it as me. What do you think in the chapter 3? I will tell you when I finish it next weekend. Thanks for your reading. See u guide.

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Dinner at the homesick restaurant - Page 1-36 Introduction:The story was written by Ann Tyler. Critics generally consider Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler's ninth novel, to be among her best work. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award and the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. Also a commercial success, it has to date sold more than 60,000 copies in hardcover and more than 655,000 in paperback. Published in 1982, the medium-length fiction spans several decades in the history of the Tull family of Baltimore, Maryland. Often compared to William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying, the narrative begins with 85-year-old Pearl Tull, blind and on her deathbed, attempting to reconcile with her role as a deserted wife and single parent. Will her three grown children—Cody, Jenny, and Ezra—forgive her for sometimes being a physically and verbally abusive mother? Told from alternating points of view, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is ultimately about how growing up in an unconventional, turbulent family affected three children in very different ways.Although many critics considered the novel less optimistic than her other work, it drew much praise for its psychological insight, rich characterization, well-developed plot structure, and impressive handling of multiple points of view. Like many of her other novels—including Earthly Possessions, Searching for Caleb, and The Accidental Tourist—Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is about the burden of a person's past, be it personal, familial, or historicalCritics generally consider Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler's ninth novel, to be among her best work. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award and the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. Also a commercial success, it has to date sold more than 60,000 copies in hardcover and more than 655,000 in paperback. Published in 1982, the medium-length fiction spans several decades in the history of the Tull family of Baltimore, Maryland. Often compared to William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying, the narrative begins with 85-year-old Pearl Tull, blind and on her deathbed, attempting to reconcile with her role as a deserted wife and single parent. Will her three grown children—Cody, Jenny, and Ezra—forgive her for sometimes being a physically and verbally abusive mother? Told from alternating points of view, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is ultimately about how growing up in an unconventional, turbulent family affected three children in very different ways.Although many critics considered the novel less optimistic than her other work, it drew much praise for its psychological insight, rich characterization, well-developed plot structure, and impressive handling of multiple points of view. Like many of her other novels—including Earthly Possessions, Searching for Caleb, and The Accidental Tourist—Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is about the burden of a person's past, be it personal, familial, or historical.Chapter 1:Chapter One, "Something You Should Know," opens as Pearl Tull lies dying in her Baltimore home. Her son Ezra sits next to her. She recalls her life, not in chronological order, but in the way memory works, she remebered her past. When she met her husband - Beck Tull, she was thirty years old and he was twenty-four. He was working in the Tanner Corporation as a saleman. The company sold its farm and garden equipment all over the eastern seaboard and where he would surely, surely rise, a smart young fellow like him. She met him at the Baptist church, which Pearl was only visiting because her girlfriend Emmaline was a member. After that they had their Baptist wedding and spent their honeymoon moving to Newport News. And they always moved and moved again. for the first six years they had no children and the moves was fairly easy. Then Cody that was her first boy was born. One Sunday night in 1944, Beck said he didn't want to stay married. His company was sending him to Norfolk, but he thought it best if he went alone. At the same time, they were living in Baltimore, in a row house on Calvert Street. The children were fourteen, eleven, and nine. And she told her them that their Dad was away on business. And he had never came back. Fifty dollars a month from him to send to Pearl. And she had to take care their children herself. Return the normal life, she felt bad and she wanted to meet all her children. But she didn't want to go to hospital.Ok, that is the first chapter of the story. How do you feel? I thought that book is easier than my old book. I really want to know what happen will occur in next chapters. I want to know Beck will come back or not when Pearl had a serious sick. And I want to know how Anne Tyler put the book name was Dinner in the homesick restaurant. I will let everybody know about that. I think this book make me excited.
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Introduction:The story was written by Ann Tyler. Critics generally consider Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler's ninth novel, to be among her best work. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award and the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. Also a commercial success, it has to date sold more than 60,000 copies in hardcover and more than 655,000 in paperback. Published in 1982, the medium-length fiction spans several decades in the history of the Tull family of Baltimore, Maryland. Often compared to William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying, the narrative begins with 85-year-old Pearl Tull, blind and on her deathbed, attempting to reconcile with her role as a deserted wife and single parent. Will her three grown children—Cody, Jenny, and Ezra—forgive her for sometimes being a physically and verbally abusive mother? Told from alternating points of view, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is ultimately about how growing up in an unconventional, turbulent family affected three children in very different ways.Although many critics considered the novel less optimistic than her other work, it drew much praise for its psychological insight, rich characterization, well-developed plot structure, and impressive handling of multiple points of view. Like many of her other novels—including Earthly Possessions, Searching for Caleb, and The Accidental Tourist—Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is about the burden of a person's past, be it personal, familial, or historicalCritics generally consider Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler's ninth novel, to be among her best work. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award and the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. Also a commercial success, it has to date sold more than 60,000 copies in hardcover and more than 655,000 in paperback. Published in 1982, the medium-length fiction spans several decades in the history of the Tull family of Baltimore, Maryland. Often compared to William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying, the narrative begins with 85-year-old Pearl Tull, blind and on her deathbed, attempting to reconcile with her role as a deserted wife and single parent. Will her three grown children—Cody, Jenny, and Ezra—forgive her for sometimes being a physically and verbally abusive mother? Told from alternating points of view, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is ultimately about how growing up in an unconventional, turbulent family affected three children in very different ways.Although many critics considered the novel less optimistic than her other work, it drew much praise for its psychological insight, rich characterization, well-developed plot structure, and impressive handling of multiple points of view. Like many of her other novels—including Earthly Possessions, Searching for Caleb, and The Accidental Tourist—Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is about the burden of a person's past, be it personal, familial, or historical.Chapter 1:Chapter One, "Something You Should Know," opens as Pearl Tull lies dying in her Baltimore home. Her son Ezra sits next to her. She recalls her life, not in chronological order, but in the way memory works, she remebered her past. When she met her husband - Beck Tull, she was thirty years old and he was twenty-four. He was working in the Tanner Corporation as a saleman. The company sold its farm and garden equipment all over the eastern seaboard and where he would surely, surely rise, a smart young fellow like him. She met him at the Baptist church, which Pearl was only visiting because her girlfriend Emmaline was a member. After that they had their Baptist wedding and spent their honeymoon moving to Newport News. And they always moved and moved again. for the first six years they had no children and the moves was fairly easy. Then Cody that was her first boy was born. One Sunday night in 1944, Beck said he didn't want to stay married. His company was sending him to Norfolk, but he thought it best if he went alone. At the same time, they were living in Baltimore, in a row house on Calvert Street. The children were fourteen, eleven, and nine. And she told her them that their Dad was away on business. And he had never came back. Fifty dollars a month from him to send to Pearl. And she had to take care their children herself. Return the normal life, she felt bad and she wanted to meet all her children. But she didn't want to go to hospital.Ok, that is the first chapter of the story. How do you feel? I thought that book is easier than my old book. I really want to know what happen will occur in next chapters. I want to know Beck will come back or not when Pearl had a serious sick. And I want to know how Anne Tyler put the book name was Dinner in the homesick restaurant. I will let everybody know about that. I think this book make me excited.

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Introduction:
The story was written by Ann Tyler. Critics generally consider Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler's ninth novel, to be among her best work. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award and the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. Also a commercial success, it has to date sold more than 60,000 copies in hardcover and more than 655,000 in paperback. Published in 1982, the medium-length fiction spans several decades in the history of the Tull family of Baltimore, Maryland. Often compared to William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying, the narrative begins with 85-year-old Pearl Tull, blind and on her deathbed, attempting to reconcile with her role as a deserted wife and single parent. Will her three grown children—Cody, Jenny, and Ezra—forgive her for sometimes being a physically and verbally abusive mother? Told from alternating points of view, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is ultimately about how growing up in an unconventional, turbulent family affected three children in very different ways.
Although many critics considered the novel less optimistic than her other work, it drew much praise for its psychological insight, rich characterization, well-developed plot structure, and impressive handling of multiple points of view. Like many of her other novels—including Earthly Possessions, Searching for Caleb, and The Accidental Tourist—Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is about the burden of a person's past, be it personal, familial, or historicalCritics generally consider Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler's ninth novel, to be among her best work. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award and the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. Also a commercial success, it has to date sold more than 60,000 copies in hardcover and more than 655,000 in paperback. Published in 1982, the medium-length fiction spans several decades in the history of the Tull family of Baltimore, Maryland. Often compared to William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying, the narrative begins with 85-year-old Pearl Tull, blind and on her deathbed, attempting to reconcile with her role as a deserted wife and single parent. Will her three grown children—Cody, Jenny, and Ezra—forgive her for sometimes being a physically and verbally abusive mother? Told from alternating points of view, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is ultimately about how growing up in an unconventional, turbulent family affected three children in very different ways.
Although many critics considered the novel less optimistic than her other work, it drew much praise for its psychological insight, rich characterization, well-developed plot structure, and impressive handling of multiple points of view. Like many of her other novels—including Earthly Possessions, Searching for Caleb, and The Accidental Tourist—Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is about the burden of a person's past, be it personal, familial, or historical.

Chapter 1:

Chapter One, "Something You Should Know," opens as Pearl Tull lies dying in her Baltimore home. Her son Ezra sits next to her. She recalls her life, not in chronological order, but in the way memory works, she remebered her past. When she met her husband - Beck Tull, she was thirty years old and he was twenty-four. He was working in the Tanner Corporation as a saleman. The company sold its farm and garden equipment all over the eastern seaboard and where he would surely, surely rise, a smart young fellow like him. She met him at the Baptist church, which Pearl was only visiting because her girlfriend Emmaline was a member. After that they had their Baptist wedding and spent their honeymoon moving to Newport News. And they always moved and moved again. for the first six years they had no children and the moves was fairly easy. Then Cody that was her first boy was born. One Sunday night in 1944, Beck said he didn't want to stay married. His company was sending him to Norfolk, but he thought it best if he went alone. At the same time, they were living in Baltimore, in a row house on Calvert Street. The children were fourteen, eleven, and nine. And she told her them that their Dad was away on business. And he had never came back. Fifty dollars a month from him to send to Pearl. And she had to take care their children herself. Return the normal life, she felt bad and she wanted to meet all her children. But she didn't want to go to hospital.

Ok, that is the first chapter of the story. How do you feel? I thought that book is easier than my old book. I really want to know what happen will occur in next chapters. I want to know Beck will come back or not when Pearl had a serious sick. And I want to know how Anne Tyler put the book name was Dinner in the homesick restaurant. I will let everybody know about that. I think this book make me excited.

Bridget Jones's diary - P1-16 - Amy

The story was written by Helen Fielding. It talked about the diary of the girl during 1 year (from Jan 1st to Dec 31st). Her name was Bridget Jones. She was in London and she was preparing for the New Year. Her mom wanted to her to come the Una and Geoffrey Alconbury's New Year's Day Turkey Curry Buffet in Grafton Underwood. Geoffrey and Una Alconbury are her parents' best friends. In the first day of the year she went to the Turkey Curry Buffet too late. When she came there, everybody has arrived. She met a lot of her parents' friends and their children. Then, Una wanted her to meet the man who was the son of her parents' friend - Malcolm and Elaine. His name was Mark Darcy and was one of these super-dooper top-notch lawyers. But at that time he was divorced with his Japanese wife who was very cruel race. So Una introduced Bridget with Mark. They talked together, and he realized that he didn't like to talk with her. He said that he should got something to eat, he left her to stand on her own. She thought everybody in the buffet was staring her and thought that why she didn't married and she repulsed men.

In my opinion, I have just finished 16 pages of this novel so I didn't have idea yet. At this time I think this novel isn't exciting and I hope that it will be better later.

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