Last Breath post10

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- zach and jason are friends and they are on an adventure in Sumatra
-they meets some girls and zach begins to talk to them
-a mosquito is sitting near-by and she is pregnant
-she has the malaria infection in her saliva and when she bites zach, he then has malaria
- he goes through 3 days of symptoms and he and his friend decide to go to the hospital where he eventually dies

4 questions
- why does the mosquito not bite the others that she passes over?
-did the vampire myth come from mosquitos?
-how many eggs were inside her?
-how could it have been prevented?

3 vocabulary words
sinewy-having strong sinews
quinine-a white, bitter, slightly water-soluble alkaloid, C_{2 0}H_{2 4}N₂O₂, having needlelike crystals, obtained from cinchona bark: used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of resistant forms of malaria.
phosphorescence- any luminous radiation emitted from a substance after the removal of the exciting agent.

2 literary terms
metaphor- an overheated lizard writhing on the floor
simile- thick wads of parasitized red blood cells clog in the tiny capillaries of zach's brain like fallen leaves plugging a rainspout

1 overview sentence
zach and jasoon adventure ends with zach dying from a malaria infected mosquito bite.