Monday, 22 December 2014,07:33
Second summary for article
Magazine from: Cleo.
The article's topic is "Team Up Against HPV: Never Too Early". There is a story between Atiqah and her favourite elder sister called Kak Long who suffered cervical cancer. She was there when Kak Long announced the bad news to their family which turned into flood of tears. Kak Long could not tolerate the radiotherapy very well that every dose she takes ends up to lots of vomiting and feeling very sick for days. Then, there was the abnormal discharge. The doctor had said that Kak Long was very fortunate to detect the cancer early and she had a very good chance of survival. But Atiqah wondered whether she could have got it or not, genetically. So she decided to consult Aunty Nora, a medical doctor.
Aunty Nora then explains about how she wishes more women like Atiqah that would concern about cervical cancer, the 3rd most common cancer in women in Malaysia. Aunty Nora also explained that 99% of cervical cancer cases are caused by high risk of Human Papillomavirus or HPV. All you need is to get 3 doses of HPV vaccination over a period of 6 months. Atiqah asked whether is it those shots the Ministry of Health gives to 13-year-old girls in schools, Aunty Nora said yes, but they're a bit too old now so they should get their shots at a private hospital or clinic. The doctors also advise to all sexually-active women, aged between 20-65 years should go for a regular check-ups called a Pap smear test. It involves taking some cells from your cervix. If they are growing abnormally. the doctor will put you on the necessary treatment to prevent your condition from worsening.
Vocabulary obtained:
Seize - take hold of suddenly and forcibly
Disbelief - inability or refusal to accept that something is true or real
Tolerate - allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) without interference
Radiotherapy - the treatment of disease, especially cancer, using X-rays or similar forms of radiation
Ordeal - a very unpleasant and prolonged experience
Consult - seek information or advice from (someone, especially an expert or professional).
Enquire - ask for information from someone.
Quipped - make a witty remark.
Immunisation - the term used for the process of both getting the vaccine and becoming immune to the disease as a result of the vaccine.
00:57
First summary for article
Magazine from : Cleo.
The topic of the article is "Feeling Cash-armed?". It explains about the troubles and solutions to money saving issues and is focused when hanging out with friends. A psychologist, Melissa Podmore, says that " It puts a lot of pressure on friendships when people feel nervous and cautious about their money, they don't want to be excluded from doing things with friends so they endure the pressure to participate in social activities they can't afford." Podmore also says that many of her clients keep their financial gripes a secret from their friends, which adds to more pressure. So one of the solution to these kind of problems is to be honest with friends, because its possible that everybody else is in the same situation too. If you start being honest to your friends about how you can't afford those things, they might welcome some more budget-friendly options. Karly has a few ways to bring down the cost of catching up. She goes out in the day rather than in the night. In that way, she can drive or catch the bus instead of wasting money on cabs. Meeting for a walk or gym is also a good option as you catch up while loosening those calories, killing two birds with one stone.
Vocabulary obtained:
Transaction - an instance of buying or selling something
Gripes - a minor complaint
Confesses - admit about something wrong that has been done
Overspend - spend more than the expected or allotted amount
Expenses - the cost incurred in or required for something
Intimacy - close familiarity or friendship
Anxiety - a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease
Reassess - consider or access again, in the light of new or different factors
Saturday, 20 December 2014,03:03
Second summary for novel.
This is a novel from Cody Mcfadyen named Shadow Man.
The narrator, Smoky Barrett, a special agent from the FBI who searched serial killers and was the best from the team. It all ends until a heartless madman broke into her house, killed her husband and daughter, yet left her face scarred and her soul brutalized.
Special Agent Smoky survived through the hectic situation by shooting the killer, but with her whole life shattered forever.
Smoky has given up on life and wishes to pick up her weapon one last time. She wishes to feel the cold steel between her two lips and pull the trigger for one last time feeling she had nothing else to lose.
The novel tells about a brilliant serial murderer who calls himself "Jack Jr." after the name of The Jack Ripper. He knows everything about Barrett and intimately familiar with the incident that caused Smoky to be scarred forever deep inside and outside her body. Jack Jr. commits an unspeakable act to get her out of the house and back on the job, and then proceeds to go after her FBI team members in the same manner. He made an infant become motherless and ripped her body apart and left a message for Smoky, a clip, of him torturing the victim. The victim is also her best friend from high school. The clip was enough to shock Smoky back to work, back to her FBI team. The case awakens something inside Smoky that she thought was lost forever.
Smoky and her team has never fought or trace a murderer who is this smart and complicated. He plans a murderer perfectly without leaving any evidence for the FBI team. Jack Jr. directly challenged Special Agent Smoky to find and incarcerate him. With her life on the line, Smoky regularly visits her psychiatrist who seems to know a lot more about her than she ever tells him.
The story than leads to the climax where the FBI team found an underground base of a suspected house, which then tells us that the house belongs to Jack Jr. and that the underground base was his workplace. They also found a diary of him when he was a child which turns out that his dad, was The Jack Ripper and he was taught to inherit his dad's acts of cruelty.
At the end of the novel, the reader will then find out that the Jack Jr. is actually Smoky's psychiatrist whom she never suspected in. Smoky then went into battling Jack Jr in her house, with her teammates, and justice won.
Vocabulary obtained:
- Slaughtered - kill (people or animals) in a cruel or violent way, typically in large numbers.
- Approximately- used to show that something is almost, but not completely, accurate or exact; roughly
- Essence- the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character.
- Zingers- a striking or amusing remark.
- Enforcement- the act of compelling observance of or compliance with a law, rule, or obligation.
- Unflinching- not showing fear or hesitation in the face of danger or difficulty.
- Pigeonholed- assign to a particular category, typically an overly restrictive one.
- Flabbergasted- surprise (someone) greatly; astonish.
- Substrata- an underlying layer or substance, in particular a layer of rock or soil beneath the surface of the ground.
- Impassive- not feeling or showing emotion.
- Disgruntled- angry or dissatisfied.
- Banalities- the fact or condition of being banal; unoriginality.
- Reverie- a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.
- Pragmatic- dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
- Grimaced- an ugly, twisted expression on a person's face, typically expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement.
- Precision- the quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate.
- Profundity- great depth of insight or knowledge.
- Scrawny- (of a person or animal) unattractively thin and bony.
- Reacquainted- make (someone) acquainted or familiar with someone or something again.
- Decipher- convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language.
- Goggling- look with wide open eyes, typically in amazement.
- Exultation- a feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing.
- Brusqueness- markedly short and abrupt
- Agonizing- causing great physical or mental pain.
- Plummeting- fall or drop straight down at high speed.
- Poleaxed- hit, kill, or knock down with or as if with a poleaxe.
- Poignant- evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
- Hyperventilating- breathe or cause to breathe at an abnormally rapid rate, so increasing the rate of loss of carbon dioxide.
- Epithelial- Membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells separated by very little intercellular substance and forming the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs.
- Spectrometry- an analytical chemistry technique that helps identify the amount and type of chemicals present in a sample by measuring the mass-to-charge ratio and abundance of gas-phase ions.
Friday, 19 December 2014,09:08
First summary for novel.
So this one is an artwork from Jay Asher called Thirteen Reasons Why and is quite known.
Thirteen Reasons Why explains about a girl named Hannah Baker who committed suicide 2 weeks ago after Clay Jensen, the narrator, had a crush on her.
The novel begins as Clay Jensen mailed a package to Jenny. Soon we will find out that the package contains a total of seven cassette tapes regarding the reasons why she attempted suicide, also called as a suicide note.
One day after a tiring day at school, Clay comes home only to find a mysterious package on his bed which has his name written on it. On the first tape, Hannah tells that these tapes contain 13 reasons of why she attempted suicide and that each reason is somehow linked to one person. So basically there are 13 names on these tapes. She also tells to each of these listeners to mail the next person on her list and that if one of them ignore this command, a copy of the recordings will be published publicly. Beside the tapes, there is a map which the listener can physically visit the places as she tells her story.
Clay was confused as he didn't remember doing any perpetration to Hannah. As clay listens to the first tape, side A, reason 1, she tells about a guy named Justin Foley, her first kiss. Unfortunately, Justin made a big fuzz telling the whole school that they did more than just kissing therefore Hannah was called a whore and so on.
First tape, side B, reason 2, was about Alex Standall who spoiled
the friendship between Hannah and Jessica Davis by voting Hannah as "Best
Ass of the Freshman Class". Second tape, side A, reason 3, was about
Jessica Davis herself for she was upset by the case and end up hitting Hannah,
leaving a scar on her forehead.
Second tape, side B, reason 4, Hannah calls Tyler Down as a Peeping Tom as he allegedly took Hannah's pictured through her window.
Third tape, side A, reason 5, Hannah tells about Courtney Crimson who is a perfect popular girl at school was actually completely fake and started a rumour how Hannah had sex toys in her bedroom.
As Clay was listening to the recordings, he gets on the city bus and bumps into his middle school crush, Skye Miller. They exchanged a few words and Clay got off the bus. Outside Tyler Down's house, as how Hannah tells him to. He then runs into Marcus Cooley who once invited Clay to throw a rock at Tyler's window. He learns that Marcus is also on one of those tapes therefore he is guilty for something too.
Back
to the third tape, side B, reason 6. After being matched up with Hannah on a
Valentine's Day survey, Marcus tried to make a move on her in a booth at
Rosie's Diner. Hannah didn't favour it and she had to push him off onto the
floor to make him stop.
Fourth
tape, side A, reason 7. Hannah starts telling about how Zach Dempsey stole all
the encouragement notes left for Hannah by her classmates in Peer
Communications class for he was rejected trying to comfort Hannah after the
incident with Marcus.
Fourth tape, side B, reason 8, Hannah tells how she was disappointed of Ryan Shaver, the guy she met in poetry class whom she trusted in, cruelly published a personal poem of hers, leading to more ridicule for Hannah.
Clay leaves Rosie's and found Tony outside waiting in his car. Tony tells him that he is the one holding the second set of tapes, the ones that will be released to the public if Clay's tapes aren't passed on according to Hannah's wishes. Clay was full of questions but Tony refuses to answer them until Clay listens to the next tape.
As he wish, Clay listens to the fifth tape, side A, reason 9. The tape features him and she tells that Clay has nothing to do with her suicide and that Clay was actually really nice to her. Clay also confessed his feelings towards Hannah and they kissed. Clay felt helpless and guilty as he would've helped Hannah with her problems if she could have just told them.
Clay moves on to the fifth tape, side B, reason 10. Justin Foley is back on tape. Hannah tells that she knows Justin let Bryce Walker have sex to Jessica while she was unconscious.
Tony then told Clay that on the day of Hannah's death, he found the tapes waiting for him when he got home from school. As soon as he realized what Hannah was up to, he tried to call her parents but it was too late. Since then, he follows people the people on the list making sure all of them follow Hannah's instructions.
Clay then inserts the sixth tape, side A, for reason 11. Jenny Kurtz who offered Hannah a ride home hit a stop sign with her car and refuses to report the incident. Later on, there was a fatal accident at the exact same stop sign. Side B, reason 12, Bryce Walker started to touch Hannah sexually in a hot-tub, Hannah then lets Bryce whom she despised, have sex with her.
For the last one, the seventh tape, Mr Porter, her counselor, didn't take her seriously when she mentioned about suicidal, and let her move on leaving his office without giving any help.
The novel ends with Clay going to school calling Skye Miller, his crush whom he stumbled into on the bus, after mailing the package to Jenny.
Vocabulary obtained
- Serrated - having a notched edge or sawlike teeth
- Ridicule - speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing
- Anthology - a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or the same subject.
- Absurdity - the state or quality of being absurd (ridiculous)
- Commotion - a state of confused and noisy disturbance
- Staggered - to walk or move unsteadily, uneven.
- Grating - sounding harsh and unpleasant
- Orientation - the determination of the relative position of something or someone
- Decipher - finding out the meaning of something
- Contemplate - reflect deeply on a subject
- Diminish - decrease in size, extent on range
- Avert - to turn away or aside
- Indication - something that serves to indicate or suggest
- Petty - contemptibly narrow in outlook
- Bluff - pretend that your position is stronger than it really is
- Stifle - smother or suppress
- Curb - an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones
- Chauffeur - a man paid to drive a privately owned car
- Flinch - draw back, as with fear of pain
- Juvenile - of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people
- Subtlety - the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
- Vouch - give personal assurance, guarantee
- Intriguing - capable of arousing interest or curiosity
- Keg - small cask or barrel
- Ornate - marked by complexity and richness of detail
- Meander - a bend or curve, as in a stream or river
- Melodramatic - having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama
- Spew - eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical
- Snicker - a disrespectful laugh
- Berserk - frenzied as if possessed by a demon, angry
Tuesday, 16 December 2014,07:44
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I can't guarantee whether you're actually reading this or not, teacher. But i'm just gonna type whatever i want here. I hope your day is going well. *thumbs up*
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Monday, 22 December 2014,07:33
Second summary for article
Magazine from: Cleo.
The article's topic is "Team Up Against HPV: Never Too Early". There is a story between Atiqah and her favourite elder sister called Kak Long who suffered cervical cancer. She was there when Kak Long announced the bad news to their family which turned into flood of tears. Kak Long could not tolerate the radiotherapy very well that every dose she takes ends up to lots of vomiting and feeling very sick for days. Then, there was the abnormal discharge. The doctor had said that Kak Long was very fortunate to detect the cancer early and she had a very good chance of survival. But Atiqah wondered whether she could have got it or not, genetically. So she decided to consult Aunty Nora, a medical doctor.
Aunty Nora then explains about how she wishes more women like Atiqah that would concern about cervical cancer, the 3rd most common cancer in women in Malaysia. Aunty Nora also explained that 99% of cervical cancer cases are caused by high risk of Human Papillomavirus or HPV. All you need is to get 3 doses of HPV vaccination over a period of 6 months. Atiqah asked whether is it those shots the Ministry of Health gives to 13-year-old girls in schools, Aunty Nora said yes, but they're a bit too old now so they should get their shots at a private hospital or clinic. The doctors also advise to all sexually-active women, aged between 20-65 years should go for a regular check-ups called a Pap smear test. It involves taking some cells from your cervix. If they are growing abnormally. the doctor will put you on the necessary treatment to prevent your condition from worsening.
Vocabulary obtained:
Seize - take hold of suddenly and forcibly
Disbelief - inability or refusal to accept that something is true or real
Tolerate - allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) without interference
Radiotherapy - the treatment of disease, especially cancer, using X-rays or similar forms of radiation
Ordeal - a very unpleasant and prolonged experience
Consult - seek information or advice from (someone, especially an expert or professional).
Enquire - ask for information from someone.
Quipped - make a witty remark.
Immunisation - the term used for the process of both getting the vaccine and becoming immune to the disease as a result of the vaccine.
00:57
First summary for article
Magazine from : Cleo.
The topic of the article is "Feeling Cash-armed?". It explains about the troubles and solutions to money saving issues and is focused when hanging out with friends. A psychologist, Melissa Podmore, says that " It puts a lot of pressure on friendships when people feel nervous and cautious about their money, they don't want to be excluded from doing things with friends so they endure the pressure to participate in social activities they can't afford." Podmore also says that many of her clients keep their financial gripes a secret from their friends, which adds to more pressure. So one of the solution to these kind of problems is to be honest with friends, because its possible that everybody else is in the same situation too. If you start being honest to your friends about how you can't afford those things, they might welcome some more budget-friendly options. Karly has a few ways to bring down the cost of catching up. She goes out in the day rather than in the night. In that way, she can drive or catch the bus instead of wasting money on cabs. Meeting for a walk or gym is also a good option as you catch up while loosening those calories, killing two birds with one stone.
Vocabulary obtained:
Transaction - an instance of buying or selling something
Gripes - a minor complaint
Confesses - admit about something wrong that has been done
Overspend - spend more than the expected or allotted amount
Expenses - the cost incurred in or required for something
Intimacy - close familiarity or friendship
Anxiety - a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease
Reassess - consider or access again, in the light of new or different factors
Saturday, 20 December 2014,03:03
Second summary for novel.
This is a novel from Cody Mcfadyen named Shadow Man.
The narrator, Smoky Barrett, a special agent from the FBI who searched serial killers and was the best from the team. It all ends until a heartless madman broke into her house, killed her husband and daughter, yet left her face scarred and her soul brutalized.
Special Agent Smoky survived through the hectic situation by shooting the killer, but with her whole life shattered forever.
Smoky has given up on life and wishes to pick up her weapon one last time. She wishes to feel the cold steel between her two lips and pull the trigger for one last time feeling she had nothing else to lose.
The novel tells about a brilliant serial murderer who calls himself "Jack Jr." after the name of The Jack Ripper. He knows everything about Barrett and intimately familiar with the incident that caused Smoky to be scarred forever deep inside and outside her body. Jack Jr. commits an unspeakable act to get her out of the house and back on the job, and then proceeds to go after her FBI team members in the same manner. He made an infant become motherless and ripped her body apart and left a message for Smoky, a clip, of him torturing the victim. The victim is also her best friend from high school. The clip was enough to shock Smoky back to work, back to her FBI team. The case awakens something inside Smoky that she thought was lost forever.
Smoky and her team has never fought or trace a murderer who is this smart and complicated. He plans a murderer perfectly without leaving any evidence for the FBI team. Jack Jr. directly challenged Special Agent Smoky to find and incarcerate him. With her life on the line, Smoky regularly visits her psychiatrist who seems to know a lot more about her than she ever tells him.
The story than leads to the climax where the FBI team found an underground base of a suspected house, which then tells us that the house belongs to Jack Jr. and that the underground base was his workplace. They also found a diary of him when he was a child which turns out that his dad, was The Jack Ripper and he was taught to inherit his dad's acts of cruelty.
At the end of the novel, the reader will then find out that the Jack Jr. is actually Smoky's psychiatrist whom she never suspected in. Smoky then went into battling Jack Jr in her house, with her teammates, and justice won.
Vocabulary obtained:
- Slaughtered - kill (people or animals) in a cruel or violent way, typically in large numbers.
- Approximately- used to show that something is almost, but not completely, accurate or exact; roughly
- Essence- the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character.
- Zingers- a striking or amusing remark.
- Enforcement- the act of compelling observance of or compliance with a law, rule, or obligation.
- Unflinching- not showing fear or hesitation in the face of danger or difficulty.
- Pigeonholed- assign to a particular category, typically an overly restrictive one.
- Flabbergasted- surprise (someone) greatly; astonish.
- Substrata- an underlying layer or substance, in particular a layer of rock or soil beneath the surface of the ground.
- Impassive- not feeling or showing emotion.
- Disgruntled- angry or dissatisfied.
- Banalities- the fact or condition of being banal; unoriginality.
- Reverie- a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.
- Pragmatic- dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
- Grimaced- an ugly, twisted expression on a person's face, typically expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement.
- Precision- the quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate.
- Profundity- great depth of insight or knowledge.
- Scrawny- (of a person or animal) unattractively thin and bony.
- Reacquainted- make (someone) acquainted or familiar with someone or something again.
- Decipher- convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language.
- Goggling- look with wide open eyes, typically in amazement.
- Exultation- a feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing.
- Brusqueness- markedly short and abrupt
- Agonizing- causing great physical or mental pain.
- Plummeting- fall or drop straight down at high speed.
- Poleaxed- hit, kill, or knock down with or as if with a poleaxe.
- Poignant- evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
- Hyperventilating- breathe or cause to breathe at an abnormally rapid rate, so increasing the rate of loss of carbon dioxide.
- Epithelial- Membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells separated by very little intercellular substance and forming the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs.
- Spectrometry- an analytical chemistry technique that helps identify the amount and type of chemicals present in a sample by measuring the mass-to-charge ratio and abundance of gas-phase ions.
Friday, 19 December 2014,09:08
First summary for novel.
So this one is an artwork from Jay Asher called Thirteen Reasons Why and is quite known.
Thirteen Reasons Why explains about a girl named Hannah Baker who committed suicide 2 weeks ago after Clay Jensen, the narrator, had a crush on her.
The novel begins as Clay Jensen mailed a package to Jenny. Soon we will find out that the package contains a total of seven cassette tapes regarding the reasons why she attempted suicide, also called as a suicide note.
One day after a tiring day at school, Clay comes home only to find a mysterious package on his bed which has his name written on it. On the first tape, Hannah tells that these tapes contain 13 reasons of why she attempted suicide and that each reason is somehow linked to one person. So basically there are 13 names on these tapes. She also tells to each of these listeners to mail the next person on her list and that if one of them ignore this command, a copy of the recordings will be published publicly. Beside the tapes, there is a map which the listener can physically visit the places as she tells her story.
Clay was confused as he didn't remember doing any perpetration to Hannah. As clay listens to the first tape, side A, reason 1, she tells about a guy named Justin Foley, her first kiss. Unfortunately, Justin made a big fuzz telling the whole school that they did more than just kissing therefore Hannah was called a whore and so on.
First tape, side B, reason 2, was about Alex Standall who spoiled
the friendship between Hannah and Jessica Davis by voting Hannah as "Best
Ass of the Freshman Class". Second tape, side A, reason 3, was about
Jessica Davis herself for she was upset by the case and end up hitting Hannah,
leaving a scar on her forehead.
Second tape, side B, reason 4, Hannah calls Tyler Down as a Peeping Tom as he allegedly took Hannah's pictured through her window.
Third tape, side A, reason 5, Hannah tells about Courtney Crimson who is a perfect popular girl at school was actually completely fake and started a rumour how Hannah had sex toys in her bedroom.
As Clay was listening to the recordings, he gets on the city bus and bumps into his middle school crush, Skye Miller. They exchanged a few words and Clay got off the bus. Outside Tyler Down's house, as how Hannah tells him to. He then runs into Marcus Cooley who once invited Clay to throw a rock at Tyler's window. He learns that Marcus is also on one of those tapes therefore he is guilty for something too.
Back
to the third tape, side B, reason 6. After being matched up with Hannah on a
Valentine's Day survey, Marcus tried to make a move on her in a booth at
Rosie's Diner. Hannah didn't favour it and she had to push him off onto the
floor to make him stop.
Fourth
tape, side A, reason 7. Hannah starts telling about how Zach Dempsey stole all
the encouragement notes left for Hannah by her classmates in Peer
Communications class for he was rejected trying to comfort Hannah after the
incident with Marcus.
Fourth tape, side B, reason 8, Hannah tells how she was disappointed of Ryan Shaver, the guy she met in poetry class whom she trusted in, cruelly published a personal poem of hers, leading to more ridicule for Hannah.
Clay leaves Rosie's and found Tony outside waiting in his car. Tony tells him that he is the one holding the second set of tapes, the ones that will be released to the public if Clay's tapes aren't passed on according to Hannah's wishes. Clay was full of questions but Tony refuses to answer them until Clay listens to the next tape.
As he wish, Clay listens to the fifth tape, side A, reason 9. The tape features him and she tells that Clay has nothing to do with her suicide and that Clay was actually really nice to her. Clay also confessed his feelings towards Hannah and they kissed. Clay felt helpless and guilty as he would've helped Hannah with her problems if she could have just told them.
Clay moves on to the fifth tape, side B, reason 10. Justin Foley is back on tape. Hannah tells that she knows Justin let Bryce Walker have sex to Jessica while she was unconscious.
Tony then told Clay that on the day of Hannah's death, he found the tapes waiting for him when he got home from school. As soon as he realized what Hannah was up to, he tried to call her parents but it was too late. Since then, he follows people the people on the list making sure all of them follow Hannah's instructions.
Clay then inserts the sixth tape, side A, for reason 11. Jenny Kurtz who offered Hannah a ride home hit a stop sign with her car and refuses to report the incident. Later on, there was a fatal accident at the exact same stop sign. Side B, reason 12, Bryce Walker started to touch Hannah sexually in a hot-tub, Hannah then lets Bryce whom she despised, have sex with her.
For the last one, the seventh tape, Mr Porter, her counselor, didn't take her seriously when she mentioned about suicidal, and let her move on leaving his office without giving any help.
The novel ends with Clay going to school calling Skye Miller, his crush whom he stumbled into on the bus, after mailing the package to Jenny.
Vocabulary obtained
- Serrated - having a notched edge or sawlike teeth
- Ridicule - speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing
- Anthology - a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or the same subject.
- Absurdity - the state or quality of being absurd (ridiculous)
- Commotion - a state of confused and noisy disturbance
- Staggered - to walk or move unsteadily, uneven.
- Grating - sounding harsh and unpleasant
- Orientation - the determination of the relative position of something or someone
- Decipher - finding out the meaning of something
- Contemplate - reflect deeply on a subject
- Diminish - decrease in size, extent on range
- Avert - to turn away or aside
- Indication - something that serves to indicate or suggest
- Petty - contemptibly narrow in outlook
- Bluff - pretend that your position is stronger than it really is
- Stifle - smother or suppress
- Curb - an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones
- Chauffeur - a man paid to drive a privately owned car
- Flinch - draw back, as with fear of pain
- Juvenile - of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people
- Subtlety - the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
- Vouch - give personal assurance, guarantee
- Intriguing - capable of arousing interest or curiosity
- Keg - small cask or barrel
- Ornate - marked by complexity and richness of detail
- Meander - a bend or curve, as in a stream or river
- Melodramatic - having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama
- Spew - eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical
- Snicker - a disrespectful laugh
- Berserk - frenzied as if possessed by a demon, angry
Tuesday, 16 December 2014,07:44
Testing
This is a stupid post. Please ignore. thank you.
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