Cat's Cradle

Comments-
1. “I was only six years old when they dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, so anything I remember about that day other people have helped me to remember.”
2. “I remember I was playing on the living-room carpet outside my fathers study door in Ilium, New York.”
3. “Father, as you probably know, spent practically his whole professional life working for the Research laboratory of the General forge and Foundry Company in Ilium.”
4. “The only place that he liked to go outside of Ilium was out cottage in Cape Cod.”
5. “I was playing on the Carpet outside his study the day of the bomb.”
Questions-
1. What was the significance of the book from the murderer, if the bomb maker never ever read it?
2. Why did the father only care about the string?
3. Why did the father compare himself to an eight year old, when he accepted his Nobel prize?
4. What was the significance of the father making the cat’s cradle?
Vocabulary-
1. Unsung-not praised or acclaimed
2. Incidentally-apart or aside from the main subject of attention, discussion, etc.
3. Enterprising-energetic in carrying out any undertaking
Literary terms-
1. Setting-Ilium, NY
2. Exposition-the boy tells the author his recollection of he day the bomb was dropped
Outline-
1. The son tells of how his brother disappeared after the father died. He also tells about what he remembers the father doing that day. It is mostly about the father playing with string and making a cats cradle