Friday, October 24, 2008

5/4/3/2/1 NOTES #5

COMMENTS:

*Clavo, Chicharron, Wilo, and the narrator were “camaradas” (best friends) in the gang/club.

*Everyone calls the author “chin” because of his protruding jawbone. (All the members of his gang call him like that)

*The author’s gang is attacked by another gang called “la sangra”, they shot the narrator’s friends.

*The character suffers a surgery because he has a pain in his stomach, and the doctor says he needs a surgery, even though the pain wasn’t going to kill him.

*Clavo, one of the author’s friends who had been shot, lost his eye, however he looks very well after that.

QUESTIONS:

*how did the gangs get the guns without any problem with the police?

*what was the main reason gangs fought against each other?

*how did the author’s family afford the surgery of Luis, if they were poor?

*were the police officers entirely doing their work by that time?

VOCABULARY:

*haze: to force to do ridiculous or painful things, as in initiation.

*craze: to make or become insane.

*stoked: to stir up and feel fuel to.

*creases: a line made by folding and pressing.

LITERARY TERMS:

*Onomatopeia: “then the truck’s transmission gears growled as it continued up the slope.” Page#55

*Simile: “Fernie began jumping up and down like he had been jolted with lightning, letting out gritos”. Page #58

SUMMARY:

In this chapter, the author is wasting time with his friends, Clavo, Chicharron, and Wilo in a place they called “the fields”, when a Mercury Sedan comes and shot them, however only Clavo and Wilo get injured, and Clavo loses one of his eyes. After all that, the story is about how and why the author suffers a surgery, besides it talks about how they treat their girlfriends, and how those girls are always a trouble for them, and also how they love those girls.

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