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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, the maid at the Vermeer's household.
2. She has an artistic talent:organizing cut vegetables by colors.
3. She seems to read/know people's minds without talking to them or hearing them explain in words.
3. She is very observant: remembers the open space of the market square, reads people
4. She is very quick-witted and cunning: Telling Tanneke that whoever has her painting is very lucky because they get to see it everyday, trying to please Maria thins.
5. obediant:following all the instructions of the Vermeer household, listening to her father about becoming a maid.
6. Special connection with Vermeer and Pieter the son and has a dilema of choosing what's right, and what she wants. |
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1."GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, Griet's sister
2. Still immature kid: being stubborn about Griet's departure.
3. Very attached to Griet: waiting for her, going to the market square just to meet her.
4. insecurity of her sister moving on: She gets hurt when she sees her sister with maertge in the thought of being replaced.
5. Dies of plague |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, Griet's borhter
2. starts his apprenticeship at thriteen with almost all of Griet's family's money.
3. Ends up working as a apprentice for a tile company
4. good relationship with his sisters: Agnes being upset when he leaves, Griet's memories
5. not as religious as Griet: doesn't go to church
6. Shy: going to a strange church |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, Vermeer's wife
2. prejudiced: okay to be mad at lower class women the first time she met Griet
2. She is insecure of her relationship with Vermeer
3. She has 5 children and gives a birth to another boy
4. cold to Griet: didn't like her from the beginning, usually in a bad mood, point things out a lot
5. scared of van Leeuwenhoek: broke the box |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, Catharina's mother
2.looks just like her daughter: hair, eyes
3. has the manor of taking care of people who are less able than she
4. only one allowed into Vermeer's room: poses the key
5. accepts Griet as a useful addition to the family. |
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1."GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, another maid of the Vermeer Household
2. Jealous of Griet for being allowed to clean the studio
3. Started working at the house at the age of 14
4. obediant: Maria Thin's instructions mostly ignoring Catharina's
5. knows a lot about the household: Griet's sources |
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1."GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, third daugher of Vermeer and Catharina
2. not obediant : as a result gets slapped by Griet
3. scared of Maria Thins, her grandmather : griet uses this to scorn her actions of throwing stones to the 4. The most changeable of the girls: slap and then friendly (best and worst)
5. Uneasy with Griet: watch her clean the studio, scowl at Griet, break her tile |
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1."GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, an artist and the head of the household where Griet works
2. Sees something special in griet:
vegetables, show her the box
3. Friend named van Leeuwenhoeck who studies lenses that help him paint
4. Try very hard to be a good father: playing/ laughing with his children and speaking nicely and softly to Cathaina
5. He is very involved in painting: time in studio, guilds |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, the setting of the book.
2. Where Griet was raised: memories with Frans and Agnus
3. has a canal going through with is often used as the transportation way for trade
4. multireligious town: Griet-protestant, Vermeer's Catholics
5. Market Square at the center |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, one of the ocrners in Delft
2. one of the corners that the eight-pointed stars
3. Catholics live here
4. Griet's never been to this corner before
5. Where the Vermeers live |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, center of the city
2. stones made into a circle wiht 8 points inside circle
3. where griet used to play with siblings: favorite game
4. how Griet discovered Delft
5. each point points at different part of Delft |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, the butcher and his son
2. Vermeer Household's food source
3. The son has a special connection for Griet
4. The son plays a key role in transferring the information of the quarantine
5. The butcher has strong pride for his meat |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, a device Vermeer uses when he paints
2. box with the use of light and lenses in order to change the view of things
3. introduced to Griet by Vermeer: they have a special moment
4. Griet gets excited/nervous about Vermeer
5. Griet doesn't really understand -> Vermeer disappointed |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, Scientist studying lenses and light
2. A close friend of Vermeer
3. Mad at Catharina because she broke one of his boxes
4. brings the insercurity in Catharina: why she can't be alone in the studio without Vermeer
5. attends the party |
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1.`"GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, blocking out without any passengers due to the spread of the plague
2. Griet gets closer with Pieter the son: he was the messenger
3. Catharina mad at griet: wanting to go back home but probably will bring the plague back to the house
4. why griet visits franz
5. why griet ends up going to a stranger church |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier, the patron
2. He buys Vermeer's works including Tanneke
3. forces Vermeer to draw faster for money
4. suggests Vermeer to paint Griet: Griet gets cornered
5. wife: one of Vermeer's paintings |
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1. The Old Testament, greek or origin
2. the first book of bible
3. focused on the creation of earth.
4. 6 days of Creation: light and dark, fimament of heaven, dry/water(plants), sun/moom/stars, animals in sky/sea, land animals
5. author: created imperfect characters who succeed such as jacob in order to relate and believe in God who accepts all |
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| ornamental tortoisesheel comb |
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1. "GWAPE", Tracy Chevalier,Griet's comb
2. One of her belongings from home
3. keeps it in a cupboard
4. uses it all the time: meaningful |
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1. The Old Testament, first humans on earth
2. Adam was created first from the dust of the ground -> Garden of Eden
then created women from Adam's rib
the idea of "women being inferior"
3. serpent>women>man: clothes, hide from God (realizing the sin)
4. 3 curses: woman(painful labor, husband rules),man(work for food, eve is the mother of all being), serpent(crawl on stomach, eat dust)
5. kicked out of eden, flaming sword and angels to guard
"women's fault" |
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1. The Old Testament, sons of Adam and Eve
2. Cain - killer, Abel - sheep
3. Abel was preferred by God and Cain kills Abel
4. God asks " where is abel" cain responds "am i my brother's keeper?"
5. botherhodd jealousy/favoritism |
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1. The Old Testament
2. evil on earth so clear it all our
3. God chooses Noah > arch plan (one of each kind)
4. end of the disaster(40days+40nights of rain) sends our pigeons for checking
5. man's relationship with God: the first covenant symbolized through "rainbow", no more flood promised |
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1. The Old Testament, decendent of Noah
2. covenant: move out and i'll make you a great nation > moves to canaan
3. marries sarai
4. covanent: gives him land, sacrifice
5. covanent: Sarai gets a kid: Issac |
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1. The Old Testament, son of Abraham and Sarah
2. God's test to Abraham: kill issac > tries to kill him
3. God impressed > reaffirms the blessing
4. Human Testing
5. Fear = worship, foreshadow
6. marries Rebekah |
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1.The Old Testament, aka Israel, son of Issac and Rebekah
2. bother Esau, favored by Rebekah
3. inheritance of covanent > Esau tries to kill him "bother's conflict, women decieving"
4. traveling: dream (stairway to heaven, "Jacob's Ladder")
5. marries Leah but likes Rachel (favors Rachel's child) |
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1. The Old Testament, Jacob's brother
2. red hair, hairy
3. tries to kill Jacob because of the inheritence |
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1. The Old Testament, Jacob and Rachel's son
2. coat of many colors, favored > brothers sold him to Potiphar > wife asks to sleep with her > rejected > accused
3. jail >dream interpretations
4. helps Egypt > meets his brothers who learned their lessons > forgiveness
5. Pharoh > gives the brothers jobs |
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1. Old Testament
2. means departure
3. story of moses |
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1. The Old Testament, Exodus
2. moses trying to free his people > blood on their doors > not kill the hebrews |
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