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.