Wednesday, January 28, 2009

5 4 3 2 1 on The Demon In The Freezer #2

5 Comments 
- Sherif Zaki, why did the author mention him us? isn't he just some normal doctor?
- That is so scary! Dry spore can travel in air and land on fertile and make other sick. That is so creepy.
- This turn out to be so serious. I think they should just bury him.
- He should had NEVER went to visit his daughter and went on the stupid hiking.
- I think people is going to be infected of his disease and a lot of people will die.

4 Questions
- Why are they giving him a organ test? 
- Can't they just burn him so the bacteria die too?
- What did his family react to his death?
- Why is he scare of looking at the dead body and imagine the real living man? 

3 Vocabulary 
- Engorged -  to fill with blood to the point of congestion 
- Anthrax - : an infectious disease of warm-blooded animals (as cattle and sheep) caused by a spore-forming bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), transmissible to humans especially by the handling of infected products (as wool), and characterized by cutaneous ulcerating nodules or by often fatal lesions in the lungs ; also : the bacterium causing anthrax
- Abruptly -  characterized by or involving action or change without preparation or warning

2 Literary Terms 
-  Plot - Steven die, and they need to find the source of the disease and it is hard.
-  Point of the View - I think the point of view was Shrief Zaki because he was mention most of the time. But i think it is some a narrator.

1 Overall
- When Steven die. The Medical team went out and search for the sources of his anthrax and the resource that he got his anthrax from is the Mail bin that is fill with Anthrax spores.

5 4 3 2 1 on The Demon In The Freezer #1

5 comments 
- Steven is a english immigrants who want to be a redneck.
- He loves to fish, i fish once and i never caught any. I gave up on fishing , I don't know how Steven keep his work up.
- So Steven do something like Photoshop but he does it by hand.
- This book is weird, the story kind of ends in the first few page.
- This is sad, he went to visit his daughter and he got infect and die.

4 questions
- What kind of disease did he get?
- Why does bacteria that look like macaroni is danger?
- How does this book got to do with Technology?
- Is there a cure for him?

3 Vocabularies 
- meningitis - is a medical condition that is caused by inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord
- convulsion -  is a medical condition where body muscles contract and relax rapidly and repeatedly
- Chartered - to establish, enable, or convey by charter

2 Literary Terms
- Third Person View Of Point - The story is like a documentary story, there is no I and stuff.
- Foreshadowing - When steven got in the hospital , you see like the author describe all the disease he have and i just know that he is going to die soon.

1 Overall
Steven have a peaceful life and when he went to visit his daughter in North Carolina and he caught a dangerous disease that might risk his life, he got in a Coma and he die on October 5th.