A Scanner Darkly - Pg 3-53
5 Strong comments on characters or plot
- Jerry sounds like a mental patient, or a drug addict.
- The story is narrated by a 3rd person omniscient narrator.
- It seems like the narration of this book is changing back and forth between 1st Person and 3rd narration.
- Donna looks like a very powerful woman who can take care of herself.
- The relationship between Fred and Bob Arctor is still very confusing to me.
4 Insightful Questions
- What is a "buy call?"
- What does Substance D help with?
- How come police aren't more serious about cracking down on Substance D abuse?
- Shouldn't cops be more vigilant when on duty then trying to pretend to read a magazine?
3 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
- Indignation (pg 12): a feeling of righteous anger
- Lanky (pg 18): somewhat lank; tall, slim, and rather ungraceful
- Serotonin (pg 37): a neurotransmitter involved in e.g. sleep and depression and memory
2 Examples of Literary Terms
- Simile - "Ahead, one of those giant shopping malls surrounded by a wall that you bounced off like a rubber ball" (Dick 10).
- Hyperbole - "...maybe seven or eight hundred pounds--hell, lots more. What does a dump truck hold" (Dick 47).
1 Summary Sentence
- It introduced the characters Donna and Charles/Bob as well as explained Substance D and what it does to people.
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