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.