5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 8

COMMENTS:

*The narrator/ writer has made new friend, whose name is Jose. This event takes place in Chile where he arrived in the last chapter.

*Atacameno is a dry and desolate area of Chile, where the only water comes from the Andes snow melt, but it is known as a rich in archaeological sites and lost cities.

*There is evidence that the Huentelaguen, a southern American Indian tribe, lived in southern of California. They say that because of the similarities they have found in the two areas.

*In November 1983, a water company discovered a treasure trove of extremely well preserved mummified human remains in Arica. It was found forty meters under water.

*In this area of the Atacama desert, mummies of 8000,700, and 2600 years older than the Egyptians mummies.

QUESTIONS:

*How can two cultures exist in two different really apart areas?

*How does a human get mummified naturally?

*How did the natives learn to sail?

VOCABULARY:

*Auburn: reddish brown.

*Sight: something seen or worth seeing.

*Foothills: a low hill at near the foot of a mountain or mountain range.

LITERARY TERMS:

*Dialect: the author lets us know some of the words used in Chile to communicate in their own culture, for example, the word shop, which means draught beer.

*Exposition: It is not until now that the narrator lets us know about some details of his life, such as his neighborhood, schools, and some jobs he had.

SUMMARY:
In chapter 8, the author at first talks about his impression of Chile, which is not bad compared with Bolivia. Then he begins talking about the Atacama Desert, where many very ancient mummies have been found, and that even some of these cultures were also found in North America. This is something interesting because the experts say that the natives got there sailing, which sounds really hard to be done by homo sapiens.