5Comments
- G.Ferris was going to use dynamite to help burst open a cave he was trapped in.
- Harry Codman was dead
- Olmsted took his assistant's loss extremely heavily, spreaded the word.
- Olmsted continues to become depressed, he's definitly not hisself anymore.
- The fair is in two months at this point
4Questions
- Why did Olmsted keep moving in and out of brookline?
- Who's Eliot?
- Why didnt anyone else help out with Codman's funeral?
- What did olmsted see in the "frozen landscape"?
3Vocabulary
- Carin: A mound of stones erected as a memorial or marker
- Vigilance: Alert watchfulness
- Stratum: A horizontal layer of material, especially one of several parallel layers arranged one on top of another.
2Literary Device
- Metaphor: As yet, I am as one standing on a wreck and can hardly see when we shall be afloat again.
- Hyperbole/ metaphor: throw himself into minute tasks
1Summarizing Sentence
- This section of the book is about Ferris' problems with his machine, Codman's death and Olmsted's grievance over the tragedy