Saturday, March 28, 2009

5/4/3/2/1 cats cradle

5 comments
1- John is a person that has smoked a lot and has had 2 wives before.
2- He wanted to write a book and tried to collect material.
3- This man seems very poor but the way he explains himself.
4- He is a religous man first he was a christian and now a bokononist
5- He tells people about his religion even in his work and one time he got fired

4 questions
1- Why would john talk to people about his religon and then get fired?
2- What was johns motivations to change religon, and two reliogns that are very different?
3- Does john have any family , why doesnt he mention them ?
4- Did the atomic bomb affect the people he was with?

3 vocabulary
1-Bokononists - Bokonon, a character in the novel, is the founder of the religion. He was born Lionel Boyd Johnson. "Bokonon" was the way the natives of San Lorenzo, the fictional Caribbean island where the shipwrecked Johnson started his religion, pronounced his family name.
2-karass - a cloak or rug of animal skins used in southern Africa.
3-sinookas

2 literary terms
1- simily " she belived that God liked people in sailboatsmuch better then he liked people in motor boats "

1 Overview
1- jhon is talking about how is his life and how it has changed over that last few years . and he also starts talking about that atomic bomb and how it affected people .