A Scanner Darkly - Post 5

A Scanner Darkly - Pg 226-275
5 Strong comments on characters or plot
- Hank is actually Donna.
- Donna has been working with the police the entire time trying to crack down on Substance D.
- Fred was sent to New Path for his Substance D addiction as a police officer.
- Fred's name was changed to Bruce when he arrived at New Hope.
- Fred was sent to the New Path farm where it is discovered that New Hope, a drug rehab center is actually creating Substance D.

4 Insightful Questions
- Do the police know that Substance D is being made by New Path?
- Does every drug addict sent to New Path get sent to the farm?
- Why would New Path create this cycle of death and drug addiction just for money?
- Why was Donna ramming the Coca-Cola truck?

3 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
- Quasars (pg 244): a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts
- Monk (pg 244): a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
- Forlorn (pg 255): marked by or showing hopelessness

2 Examples of Literary Terms
- Metaphor - "A small figure on foot facing an infinity of oncoming lights" (Dick 238).
- Anaphora - "Mountains, Bruce, Mountains,... Mountains, Bruce, mountains" (Dick 273).

1 Summary Sentence
- Fred is sent to New Path where he discovers that Substance D comes from the very people who claim to cure it.