5 Comments

• The author describes the setting very detailed.
• The actions of the characters are also detailed to the point you could see the detail itself.
• The conversation between the characters seem to be kept short so it can go straight to the point.
• I could picture myself in a theater watching a movie base on the book.
• I think if other reads this, they too would visualize everything clearly.

4 Questions

• What is the town that Shawn was looking into?
• What is Shawn and Crane looking for?
• What does "kind of peaceful, but dead means"means?
• Why would they call biology "retard child" when life revolves around it?

3 Vocabulary

• Parlance(pg. 5)-noun. talk.
• Jittery(pg. 10)- adj. extremely tense and nervous.
  
• Torrent(pg. 14)- noun. a violent or overwhelming flow.

2 Literally Devices

• "It was quiet: no lights, no activity,no sound carried by the gentle wind"(pg 4).- Ominous, because you can see that something bad is gonna occur.
• "...and felt a shudder as the plane sank, sickeningly, like a stone..." (pg. 21)- Simile, it is comparing how the plane is falling down like a stone dropping.

Summary
Manchek and a crew of men were to watch over a town with a low population. Through the first three chapters there has been foreshadowing of bad things to happen and one is finding corpse town lying everywhere in town.

posted by Angellica M. @ 3:21 PM