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Monday, April 27, 2009

Cat's Cradle (chapter 1)

Comment
-He use number of wife and cigarettes to dicribe how long of ago hes talking about when he refer on his childhood.
-he wanted to be a writer or write a book.
-his book was to inform people on the importance of the atomic bomb when it hit Hiroshima.
-he was a christian.
-he was a bokonist and he believe that humanity was organized into teams that does god's will.

Question
-what does he mean by " my paents did, or nearly did" call him jonah.
-why did he wanted to write a book?
-what is a bokonon?
-is thia book talking about a book that jonah never got to finish or about jonah life?

Vocabulary
-Conveyances: the act of conveying; transmission; communication.
-Factual:of or pertaining to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
-Bokononist: It is based on living by the untruths that make one happy.

overview
-In this chaper it talks about how he wanted to write a book when he was younger but never got a chance to finished it.