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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Last Breath post 1

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  • this particular story is about peter i think.
  • he is drving home in freeznig cold weather
  • his car slams into a snowbank and he gets out of his car to try and ski the rest of the way.
  • unfortunatley he doesn't make it far and his temp begins to drop until he blacksout.
  • he is found and has to be put in warm water and has to have warm fluids flow through him.
4 questions
  • why didn' he just stay in the car?
  • why din't he have his cellphone with him again?
  • when would he have died if he wasn't found when he was?
  • was his jeep a four wheel drive?
3 vocabulary words

sternum- the ventral surface of a body segment of an arthropod.
apathy-absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.
stupor-suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc

2 literary terms
  • personification- dead silence
  • simile-fear is a concept that floats somewhere beyond your immediate reach, like that numb hand lying naked in the snow.
1 overview sentence

Peter starts of his book with his own personal death experience one frigid winter's day.

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