Sunday, March 1, 2009

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.

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