A Scanner Darkly - Post 2

A Scanner Darkly - Pg 56-111
5 Strong comments on characters or plot
- Bob Arctor the Substance D dealer is also Fred the police officer.
- An undercover narcotics agent greatest fear is not death, but being poked and hooked to some drug like Substance D or heroin.
- Substance D is more than a drug, it is like it's own economy because of how much people buy it.
- I don't understand what these holo-scanners do.
- It sounds like all of Bob's personalities are beginning to clash and go out of control.

4 Insightful Questions
- Why would Jora's own brothers get her hooked on Substance D?
- Do the police know that Bob was Fred?
- Is Jim Barris making the Substance D?
- Why is Barris talking about flushing out all their stashes?

3 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
- Nebulous (pg 56): cloudy: lacking definite form or limits
- Shuck (pg 72): remove from the shell
- Stoically (pg 106): without emotion; in a stoic manner

2 Examples of Literary Terms
- Sarcasm - "Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy....'Maybe there's an instruction manual on it'" (Dick 56).
- Metaphor - "This change i him as Fred was an economy of the passions" (Dick 58).

1 Summary Sentence
- Fred turn himself in to the police which leads to the investigation towards Bob Arctor.