Sunday, March 29, 2009

CAT"S CRADLE 5,4,3,2,1 pg. 1-32

5 comments
  • The person talking in the book was suppose to write a book of his own called "The Day the World Ended" but he didn't finish writing it.
  • It talks about a religion called bokononist.
  • Kurt Vonnegut like to write short pages and a lot of chapters.
  • At one point he was talking about writing a book and then I think he was reading another book.
  • I don't care too much for the set up of the book/

4 questions

  • In the first few pages is he reading someone else's book or is he writing his own book?
  • What does the story he is reading on page 4 and 5 mean?
  • Why did the author decide to make the chapters short and less than three pages long.
  • Is he going to end up writhing his own book?

3 vocabulary

  • Conveyances: to transport
  • Anecdotes: short account of a humorous interesting incident
  • Sordid: morally ignoble or base

2 literary

  • "human rather than technical side" (pg. 7)
  • "just like a dog he'd make a hollow in the cool earth" (pg.14)

1 overview

  • This was about the book he was writing and a book that he read and those were the first few pages in the book but the other pages is describing a lot of things.