Friday, May 1, 2009

Cat's Cradle

Comments-
1. “Some of his most famous experiments were performed with equipment that cost less tan a dollar.”
2. “That would certainly go a long way toward explaining his three strange kids.”
3. “There’s a lot to see. It’s practically like a trip to Europe there are so many things to see, if you look close.”
4. “Well if you ever do do the book, you better make father a saint, because that’s what he was.”
5. “She broke my heart. I didn’t like that much, but that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.”
Questions-
1. What equipment did the Dr. use that only cost one dollar?
2. Why did Angela refer to her father as a saint?
3. What did they mean by you get what you pay for?
4. What explained the kids’ strange behavior?
Vocabulary-
1. Mawkishly-weakly emotional
2. Tendrils-a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
3. Bogged-an area or stretch of such ground.
Literary terms-
1. Setting-Ilium, NY
2. Exposition- The author tries to explain the daughter’s feelings and ideas.
Outline-
1. When Angela talks to the author, she shows how much she loved her father by declaring hi a saint. They also tell of his ideas on ‘you get what you paid for’. the author also finds out that the equipment the doctor used was only a dollar.

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