Bel Canto. 7

5 Comments:

1. The November weather reminded Mr. Hosokawa of cherry blossoms in Kyoto and Roxane Coss of October on Lake Michigan.
2. The name of the vice president that was controlled by terrorist is Vice President Iglesias.
3. Everything in the garden shed were murder weapons.
4. Terrorists are trying to abolish all religions and they religion they especially want to abolish is Catholicism.
5. The terrorists wanted to abolish Catholicism because is was led by La Direccion Autentica instead of La Familia de Martin Suarez.

4 Questions:

1. Why did the terrorists want to abolish all religions?
2. Is Roxane from Michigan?
3. Why were there so many murder weapons in the garden shed, and who do they belong to?
4. If La Familia de Martin Suarez was still leading Catholicism, would the terrorist still try to abolish Catholicism?

3 Vocabulary:

1. Parishioners
2. Implements
3. Commuinion

2 Literary Terms:

1. "Everything in the garden shed was a murder weapon." [Irony pg. 198 - things in the garden shed should be gardening supplies, not murder weapons]
2. "Gen had to admit. The personal feeling of the translator were not the question here" [Irony pg. 213 - Gen is usually needed to be a translator but now he is not needed between two people who cannot communicate well together.]

1 Overview:

This part of the novel is about a conversation Fyodorov is having in confessing his feelings, but what he is saying isn't really making much sense so Gen tries to step in and help, but his translating wasn't needed.