Mr_Shank

Well, better late than never right?

Okay so we are finally done with this silly book. First of all, after reading the ending do you change any of the things you said about Dr. Henry and his personality? How do you think Dr. Henry changed towards the end of the book?

Do you guys think its okay for Phoebe to move out on her own and have some more free will?

Finally, a kind of obvious discussion maker, what do you all think the theme of the book was and why?

Sorry this is extra late, I got wrapped up in the Flyers Pens game (Flyers won!). Since my comments are already so late Ill comment later.

Last post =)

Words to Watch -

tarnished – to diminish or destroy the purity of

galvanized – to stimulate or treat with induced direct current (medical def.)

congealed – to make or become fixed; as ideas, sentiments or principles

deft – nimble; skillful; clever

chiffon – a sheer fabric

episiotomy – an incision to allow a clear path for birth (sorry guys, didn’t know what it was.)

jocular – chariterized by joking or jesting

Summary -

1982 -

Paul and Phoebe have turned eighteen. Caroline shows up at David’s art show in Pittsburgh. She brought with pictures of Phoebe. Caroline leaves in digust after he broke off their conversation to talk to an art critic that came to the show. David is deeply devastated, and goes to his abandoned parent’s house. He finds a pregnant sixteen year old girl named Rosemary. David invites her to come and live with them. Paul and Norah are surprised by the way he is acting now, and Paul runs away, but only for a few days. We learn he was accepted to Julliard.

1988 -

Rosemary and her six year old son, Jack, move out to live with their family. Norah and David have been divorced. Norah has moved on to dating again. David dies of an aneurysm, and Norah goes through all his things. She is sorting through his pictures and realizes things about David that she could only understand through his photographs. Paul is in France, studying music and traveling.

Meanwhile, Phoebe is in love with Robert, who has Down Syndrome, who wants to get married and live in a place with more independence. Caroline is worried about this and Phoebe’s future out on her own. When she learns that David is dead, she seeks out Norah on her own and tells her the truth and about Phoebe. Norah and Paul and Phoebe all meet for the first time. Norah is getting married, and the twins attend the wedding. Phoebe ends up going to David’s grave with Paul.

What do you guys think about David’s death? Do you find it ironic that he never really met Phoebe, but Norah and Paul, who knew nothing of her, did?

Do you think Caroline did the right thing by seeking out Norah right after David died? Or should she have just told Phoebe and let her search for her family herself?

Yes, this is very late and I apologize.

IDK where you guys read from so I’m starting at 237.

They are in a lab in Arizona doing tests on Sailor. Oh and btw, I don’t think we should have picked this book because there are a lot of F bombs and dirty jokes in it. Mr. Shank would not approve. Then, the book goes into another one of it’s infamous flashbacks to Gamini and the first time he Cardiac Surgery on a little boy. Gamini then finds out that he is sitting at the same table as one of the nurses or poeple that operated on that little boy. She said she has visited him and the parents renamed the boy Gamini because he saved the boy’s life.

We find out that Gamini was married. At least I think he was. He was married to someone who was already married but her and Gamini had a wedding day and dance? He loved her and was there for her more than her real husband was. But, it didn’t seem like she loved him when she was dying. She swallowed lye and she died the next morning while Gamini was working in the hospital. We never find out her name, even though Anil asked about 3 times.

Next, Anil gets to talking about Leaf and how they met up in Mew Mexico. Anil finds out that Leaf has Alzheimer’s. She keeps forgetting things. Then Anil writes a letter to John Boorman asking if he remembers where the bullet entered and exited on Lee Marvin in the movie Point Blank. Mr. Marvin had gotten shot in Alcatraz and he escaped and swam across some straits in San Francisco.

Then there is more crap about Cullis that isn’t important so I’m not including it. Anil has to give her speech about Sailor. Sarath goes off for a few days to find out more about Sailor’s background. He doesn’t return and Anil gets pissed. She goes to Dr. Perera for help. She is talking to him in the cafeteria and Sailor’s skelton gets stolen by someone in a van. The day comes when Anil has to convince people that Sailor was killed by the government and Sarath shows up. He took all of her evidence and he told her to get away. She did not catch the bad guys and she did not convince anyone that Sailor was killed by the government.

Then Sarath took all of the research that Anil had gathered over the entire course of the book and he didn’t give it back to her. It was just to protect her but that was very harsh. She got in a van and he told her not to contact him. She got on the ship where the lab was. She got the skeleton that Sarath had given her after he made a fool out of her at the conference. She immediately recognized it as Sailor and there was a tape to listen to. It was Sarath. He told her that she had to finish her report on Sailor that night and there would be a plane for her to catch at 7 the next morning. She needed to erase the tape and not call him, because she is in great danger. The government knows that she is onto their killings and may be after her now.

Sarath dies and Gamini sees him dead in the hospital. I didn’t really get the last chapter of the book. I didn’t think it had anything to do with anything. Who’s Ananda?

toddy tapper-(n.) a person who makes an alcoholic beverage from that sap of various species of plam trees.

pneumonic-(adj.) of, pertaining to, or affecting the lungs

pieta-(n.) the ancient Roman personification of familial affection, patriotism, and piety.

paraphernalia-(n.) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity (I have heard of this word but didn’t really know what it meant)

corrugate-(v.) to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges

I picked these words because I didn’t know what they meant.

Mallloryyyyyyyyyyyyy (will be in 90 degree weather tomorrow until fridayyy!) not bragging.

I’m going to focus mainly on Gatsby’s funeral and how it relates to some other scenarios.  In the movie, The Ultimate Gift, a young man is in the prime time of his life and is really rich and has a “great” girlfriend and a lot of “friends.”  Then something happens to him and all of his money is taken away from him: credit cards, debit cards, paper money, everything.  When he goes to ask his friends for money or help they all leave him out on the street.  When he realizes one night that he has no money on him {and his credit cards have been canceled} to pay for dinner and asks his very wealthy girlfriend to pay she dumps him.  This goes to show how people are treated when they have money and then when they are “worthless” to people.  This happens in the Great Gatsby when Nick is asked to organize the funeral for Gatsby.  Nick can’t find anyone to come to the funeral, though it seemed that when Nick was alive he had a lot of friends, but it was only because he was rich.

Who do you think Gatsby’s real friends were and why do you think that Nick was asked to organize the funeral for Gatsby?

-Maddie Zinn