Bel Canto. 4

5 Comments:

1. Father Arguedas is a young priest.
2. Someone hired the hostages to feel better because the hostages had been held captive from April to November already.
3. A week after Mr. Hosokawa's birthday party ended, he is beginning to learn to a new life.
4. Mr. Hosokawa's birthday party was not that exciting because most of the guest spent most of their times looking out the windows and some of them spent their times reading magazines.
5. Mr. Hosowaka is still thinking about his business because he wondered since his abduction, how are the stock prices doing.

4 Questions:

1. Is Nansei suppose to be Mr. Hosokawa's company in Japan?
2. Was Mr. Hosokawa trained to be a formal person when he was little?
3. What is the "other side of the wall" that Mr. Hosokawa wonders about?
4. Is the foreign place that Mr. Hosokawa is now at is Europe?

3 Vocabulary:

1. Coarseness - harsh, grating
2. Peculiar - strange, queer, odd
3. Upholstered - to furnish

2 Literary Terms:

1. "...a very nice television, color with twenty-eight-inch screen" [Imagery pg 116]
2. "...blankly staring Hello, Kitty..." [Allusion to Hello Kitty pg 117]

1 Overview:

Mr. Hosokawa is still thinking back about the time he got abducted by the Europeans from Japan but now he is back to his party and is trying to kind of start a new life in the foreign country.