Body of Work #4

Comments

1. The students would spend seven hours a day twice a week in the atonomy lab.
2. All the students were semi reluctant to go into the lab.
3. Not all people in Med. school share the same intrest in sciences.
4. Many people in medical school didnt major in the same sciences, some majored in the history of science.
5. many of the author's classmates were 21 and alittle older.

Questions

1. What made her change her carreer?
2. Where do they get the bodies from?
3. Do people often give there bodies to science?
4. Why did they need to "depersonalize" the body?

Vocabulary

1. twang- a nasal noise
2. desiccation- lose moisture
3. disperse- to scatter

Literary Terms

1. a forcep compared to a rat tooth - anthropormophicism
2. "... clarity in disorder..." metaphore

Overview

1. This section was about her introduction to a disection and the beginings of technique.

Body of Work #3

Comments

1. Death may be considered to be the world's greatest secret.
2. She was anxious about disecting a body.
3. She was once disturbed by how poeple would kiss thier dead relatives at funerals.
4. The narrator had a hard time focusing on her first full morning of lecture.
5. Her professor was very enthusiastic about the new semester.

Questions

1. Why would she pick a carrer where she felt uneasy?
2. Why wouldn't the professor lecture whil they were disecting the bodies?
3. Why wasn't she more focused on the lecture?
4. Why didnt she write down the code for the lock to the lab?

Vocabulary

1. carafe - a container for serving drinks
2. conjures- to preform magic tricks
3. slack- to loosen

Literary Terms

1. "... quiet my mind." metaphore
2. Vast imagery was used when describing the different organs they would be seeing upon the disection.

Overview

1. This section speaks about the author's anxioty about her first disection of a human body.

Body of Work #2

Comments

1. Anyone who can identify mass quantieties of bones just by feel has a knack to be in the medical field somewhere.
2. The book expresses alot of graphic thoughts.
3. The author's first day of classes was mainly just a social time to banter.
4. The narrator is studding in Rhode Island .
5. The human atinimy lab was empty on the first day.

Questions

1. Was she disturbed to have been carrying around 2/3 of a human skeleton in a box for school?
2. Why was she so reluctant to open the box?
3. How can something be eerie but beautiful?
4. The skull isn't just one bone?

Vocabulary

1. Formalin- a solution of formaldehyde
2. Cadavers- corpse
3. Psychiatry- feild of medicine

Literary Terms

1. Imagery is used when describing the skull in the " bone box".
2. "... of a large fish hanging in a museums..." ( a metaphore in reference to the bones in her box)

Overview

1. This chapter was about the author's first encounters with her bone box.

Body of Work #1

Coments

1. "Life truths seem to contradict eachother." is an intense statement.
2. The author says that to learn how to heal the living the secrets lie in the dead.
3. Many find dead bodies repulsive and sad but she finds them interesting.
4. Bodies may be dead but are full of lifes' secrets.
5. sometimes before you find the career that best suits you, you have several unrelated carreers.

Questions

1. Did the author's love for english arts inspire her to write this book?
2. When did sh e relize that was the feild she wanted to pursue?
3. Does her family's sicknesses compell her to keep going?
4. Do most people in the medical field remember thier first body they exam?

Vocabulary

1. mutants- something that has mutated
2. superflous- more than nessasary
3. hues- colors

Literary terms

1. "... legs spread out like a snow angle." similie
2. "... as if gravity were a law..." similie

Overview

1. This chapter begins to explain why the author decided to become a doctor.