Spook: Chapter 1

5 Comments:

1. It is about a visit to the reincarnation nation.
2. Six to seven researchers are researching about children who talks about the past.
3. They drove a 1965 Ambassador with one functioning windshield wiper.
4. Most of Ian Stevon's case write-ups includes a chart summarizing the allegedly reborn child's statement about a past life and about people s/he recognize.
5. The traffic man fades in and out of the street.

4 Questions:

1. Why don't he get into the fast lane and stay there?
2. Did the child used to be a poet?
3. How is the driver submissive?
4. What made the researchers research in India?

3 Vocabulary:

1. Allegedly - representing as existing but not proved; supposed
2. Flailing - to beat of strike
3. Dignitaries - a person who holds high rank or office

2 Literary Terms:

1. "...honking and flashing his lights like his team has just won the world cup..." [simile]
2. "...a flickery black and white T.V." [imagery]

1 Overview:

Researchers are beginning a research about people of the past.