Bel Canto. 2

5 Comments:

1. Mr. Hosokawa is still having memories back in Japan, but this time the memories are not as pleasant as the ones he had earlier.
2. These memories takes place back when Japan was being invaded and people were taken as hostages, and there were many man holding guns.
3. The hostage that pained Mr. Hosokawa the most is Roxanne Coss.
4. It pained Mr. Hosokawa to see that Roxanne Coss is a hostage because Kiyomi bought a Roxanne Coss record for Mr. Hosokawa's 11th birthday and he loves listening to her sing and he doesn't want her to go away.
5. Mr. Hosokawa was part of large corporations and companies like banks back in Japan.

4 Questions:

1. How did Mr. Hosokawa get bribed into a foreign country if he was part of these wealthy corporations and companies back in Japan? (Oh...probably an exchange from the Japanese to have the French and Spanish set the Japanese hostages free..)
2. What country did Mr. Hosokawa get transported to anyways? O_o
3. Why are people whispering about "Toilets, bathroom, WC." to each other?
4. Cesar is a French soldier or someone from France invading Japan? (Oh! I found out that the French are terrorists...haha) In his pass time he is humming something in French to himself...

3 Vocabulary:

1. Seminar - a small group of students
2. Medicore - of only ordinary or moderate quality
3. Tentative - unsure

2 Literary Terms:

1. "...skidded and sped" [Consonance pg. 29]
2. "slowly, slowly..." [Repetition pg. 39]

1 Overview:

People in Japan became hostages to the French and Spanish and it is up to Mr. Hosokawa and his other business partners to reason with the French and Spanish to find a way to set the hostages free.