ROAR - Bel Canto

Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
Chapter TEN

5comments:
-Carmen taught Mr. Hosokawa with out benefit of a translator.
-You don't need to speak to teach someone how to be quiet.
-Carmen is a genuis, and beautiful.
-They are so used ti the way they are living their captive lives.
-I like this simile "Like soilders shot in battle, they lay where they fell", its so powerful.

4questions:
-How old is Carmen?
-What is Mr. Hosokawa lacking and needs to learn?
-Gen likes Carmen?
-Who does Carmen likes?

3vocab:
-Avuncular(290):
-Sangfroid(295):
-Metronome(307):

2literacy terms:
-"...Could turn a door knob as silently as a leaf falls"(289).
-"He had always though of him as a private man,"(290).

1overview sentence:
-Its about how they finally realized how good, intelligent she was and she helped them all those time, then at the end they finally realized that she has always been there yet she was last found in the kitchen, shot dead and that was the end of it.

ROAR - Bel Canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Chapter NINE

5comments:
-They gave roxane alot of respect and glory.

-They also hope for the return.

-Cesar is a boy who loves music and has a passion for singing.

-Carmen is always there to help, what they came to realize.

-Cesar likes Carmen.

4questions:

-Why didnt Roxane came down to the piano this morning?

-Who was trying to fill up Roxane's space?

-Was it singing he loved or her singing he loved?

-Was he better than Roxane?

3vocab:

-Tendons(265):

-Miraculous(281):

-Catechism(288):

2literacy terms:
-"The notes welled up in throat like a wave"(266).

-"Shye knew the music as well as she knew her own breathe"(268).

1overview:

-This chapter is about how in the morning, Roxane usually came down singing in the morning, yet she didn't come down today so this boy Cesar tried to filled up her space, but he ended up getting hurt, so he ran away crying, and Carmen as usual, to the rescue, and had helped cheered and comfort her, he also liked her so I guess he felt better since she came to talk to him.

ROAR - Bel Canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Chapter EIGHT

5comments:

-The room was so small, he could touch the ceiling.

-They were playing Chess to waste time.

-They were only to move when they are allow to.

-They were eating gallons of icecream.

-Messner was the man who handled negotiations.

4questions:

-What were they playing?

-who was that "woman" that was holding his hand?

-How many hostages is still left alive there?

-Why did they look down upon Ishmael?

3vocab:

-Conjunctivitis(227):

-Pustules(227):

-Surreptitiously(240):

2litarcy terms:

-"Gen trailed behinf them like a well - trained butler"(236).

-"She wanted to walk down the street in the city like any other girl and have men tap their horns as they drove by her"(242).

1overview sentence:

- They were doing everything they could to keep their mind off of boredem, they also ate gallons oficecream, also I shmael doesn't look like any person to do impressove stuff but he proved them wrong, he was also an orphan.

ROAR - Bel Canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Chapter SEVEN

5comments:

-The first letter of each chapter is not capitalized.

-They haven't been out for a long time and no one had did the garden.

-Finally they got some fresh air.

-In Japan, you're not suppose to wear shoes in the house or it is considered as "barbaric".

-Roxane likes Mr. Hosokawa.

4questions:

-Why were the hostage being shot one per day?

-How long haven't they been out?

-Isn't it about time the terrorists let them go?

-How much longer do they have to suffer?

3vocab:

-gerunds(209): Verbal noun analogous

-faltered(212): To be unsteady in purpose or action.

-imperceptibly(225): Very slight, gradual, or subtl.

2literacy terms:

-"The leaves are as tall as the flowers"(197).

-"Her voice was so pure, so light, that it opened up the ceiling and carried their petitions directly to God"(200).

1overview sentence:

-Each day one hostage were taken upon the roof and shot, the hostages also hasn't been out for so long, that they forgot how it looked, felt, and also no one had cleaned up so the grass was practically tall as flowers, and how Carmen told Mr. Hosokawa that Roxane likes him and he tried to make moves on her in a gentlemen way and he's taking his time.

ROAR - Bel Canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Chapter SIX

5comments:

-They are becoming weaker and weaker as days pass by.

-Roxane began to knew Carmen and had let her sat on her bed, drink out of her cup.

-She also likes to braid and play with Carmen's hair because she likes it.

-Roxane helps Kato with his piano lessons.

-There were no knived left in the house so it was pretty hard to make food.

4questions:

-How is the people mailing things?

-Where are the terrorists?

-Is the people going to die?

-How are they living?

3vocab:

-inevitability(161): Unable to avoid.

-corralling(168): An enclosure.

-balk(182): To stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified.

2literacy terms:

-"Death was already sucking the air from the bottom of their lungs"(161).

-"...Carmen's hair, which was as shiny and black as a pool of oil"(162).

1overview sentence:

-Its getting so tiring for the people, it was quiet hard for them to live because they are lacking supplies and that they miss their family, also Roxane began getting to know Carmen and they started connecting, also Roxane is tutoring/giving Kato piano lessons at the same time each day.

ROAR - Bel Canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Chapter FIVE

5comments:

-They admired Gen's penmanship and how he could type.

-Ruben - a vice president of the country that was doing chores around the house.

-There was two unpowerful and not rich were the one put to work; and the one that were worked on his own will.

-Mr. Hosokawa was with Roxane and Kato at the piano most of the time.

-The pianist, song writers, and singers are coming up with new songs, and new lyrics.

4questions:

-There's spanish people living in Japan?

-What are the terrorists doing?

-How is there still food there?

-Why are they keeping so many people yet not doing anything.

3vocab:

-dredged(131): A barge on which such a machine is mounted.

-imprisonment(134): To confine in.

-pantomimed(155): The art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc by gestures without using words.

2literacy terms:

-"They could hear its beauty without being paralyzed by it"(155).

-"...ceilings came tipped in gold..."(156).

1overview sentence:

-The people that were not rich or powerful were the one that was made put to work and some of the rich and powerful did on their own behalf because they think its still their duties to do what they do, and also the pianist, singers, and song producer including people that could write songs still made songs and also Carmen is shy.

ROAR - Bel Canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Chapter FOUR

5comments:

- They couldn't tell where they were at because of the window that was misty but not drizzle and had the color gray.

- Father Arguedas is a priest that is helping people get back to their tracks.

- These terrorists are not bright to me because they wouldn't crash a party of one of the most important person in the country.

- I would try to escape or call for help while the terrorists weren't looking.

- Tetsuya Kato is a pianist.

4questions:

- Why couldn't they let the rest of the guests at Mr. Hosokawa's guest home?

- Who is the narrator?

- What are the people doing there while trapped?

- There were children there?

3vocab:

-peculiar(pg106): Strange.

-muzzle(pg116): The mouth, or end of pistol etc.

-wholly(pg129): Entirely etc.

2literacy terms:

-"...their weapons pointed out like canes for the blind."(pg107).

-"...as thoughtlessly as a coin is dropped."(pg108).

1overview sentence:

- The guests were still stucked, the terrorists were stalling, there were priests helping them get over it, and a pianist had came.

ROAR - Bel canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Chapter THREE

5comments:

- All the women were released except one.

- Roxane Coss can sing.

- Only keep a hostage that is worth something.

- Mr. Hosokawa lived for opera.

- The terrorists are Swedish people.

4questions:

- Does he live for anything else?

- Why are they doing illegal thing?

- Are they in need of money?

- Why did they decide to keep a opera singer as hostage instead of someone else?

3vocab:

-arias(pg69): Opera.

-slurred(pg72): To pass over lightly or w/out due mention of consideration.

-solace(pg81): Comfort in sorrow misfortune or trouble.

2literacy terms:

-"As a child she had waited"(pg70).

-"His arms hanging from his sides like flags..."(pg70).

1overview sentence:

- They had freed the rest of the women except for one because they wanted to keep her as hostage along with the rest of the men and they only keep the hostage that is worth something for them to trade for like money and such, also Mr. Hosokawa thinks that Roxane Coss is the most beautifulest thing there is, and that his heart skips a beat when he's near her and also i learned that the terrorists are Swedish.

ROAR - BelCanto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Chapter TWO

5comments:

- People wished that they never came to the party.

- Everyone that had came was so tired, they was knocked (sleeping) on the floor, and basically they all needed to use the bathroom but they couldn't move because of the men with guns outside.

- It was Mr. Hosokawa's birthday party, so the terrible burden of responsibility was put upon him.

- If it wasn't for him, no one would have came and all of this was unexpected.

- Mr. Hosokawa find Roxane Coss attractive, and not because she was beautiful, it was because she's different.

4questions:

- How did they assemble so quickly?

- Was there someone who was acting as an undercover?

- Who was the men with the bullhorns?

- What did they want?

3vocab:

-Acoustics(pg31): The qualities characteristics of a room, stadium etc that determine th audibility fidelity of sounds in it.

-Liaison(pg41): A person who intiates and maintains a contact or connection.

-Nauseated(pg44): To be affect wit nausea - Sick.

2literacy terms:

-"There were a series of loud clicks and then an artificial blue-white light spilled through the living-room window like a cold milk and made everyone squint"(pg30).

-"It was a soft, whistling snore like a wind coming in to beneath a doorjamb, ..."(pg30).

1overview sentence:

-This is about how when the terrorists came and people were tired so they had to sleep on the floor, they regretted coming, Mr. Hosokawa is under great pressure because of the fact that it was his party, why people had came and so its his responsibility, no one though that this would have happened, and everyone also was in need of using the utility and they was all scared and wanted to wish as if the terrorists never came.