TUESDAY SIESTA

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

VOCABULARYinterminable: unending, having no limits p.1

conscientious: paying careful attention to details p.1

Cassock:

serenity: calm, tranquil p.1

oppressive: causing discomfort by being excessive, intense, unjustly harsh p.2

permeated: to pass into or through every part of, saturate. p 3

spinster: a woman still not married beyond the usual age of marrying

p4.

inscrutable: incapable of being investigated or analyzed; not easily understood.p.6

BANANA TREE VS. ALMOND TREE

IMPORTANT QUOTES“The town was floating in the heat” p. 2 -> literary element?

“I told him never to steal anything that anyone needed to eat” p. 6

“God’s will is inscrutable.” p. 6

“Thank you…We’re all right this way.” p. 7

DID THIS HAPPEN?

SIGNIFICANCE