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Hi, readers...can't wait to hear about your selected book. I have not read it. Wondering if you'll end up recommending it to others?
ReplyDeleteAxel Vasquez. Grp#3. Title Bad Monkey. Role-read world watcher-2 pgs. 10
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1.imbedded :firmly and deeply in a surrounding mass.
Protruded:an instrument for measuring angles, typically in the form of a flat semicircle marked with degrees along the curved edge.
Nathan Zakaria Grp#3 Bad Monkey Discussion Director pgs. 10 4-12-19
ReplyDelete1. What do you think this text/passage is about?
In mid-July, a sportfisherman off the Florida Keys reels in a severed human arm. The Monroe County Sheriff, who is hyper-sensitive to any publicity threat to the Keys' tourist trade, details one of his detectives, Andrew Yancy, to transport the arm to Miami immediately and ensure that any investigation is handled by the Dade County authorities.
3. What are the most important ideas/moments in the text/section that you read today?
Late of the Miami Policr and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe Country sheriff’s office.
Nathan W. - summarizer
ReplyDeletepg 22-29 -
This set of pages expands on events from earlier in the book, and shows how they affect the protagonist in the present.
Axel Vasquez Grp#3 Bad Monkey Word Watcher pgs. 20 4-30-18
ReplyDelete1.upholstery;soft, padded textile covering that is fixed to furniture such as armchairs and sofas.
2. pathologically;in a way that is psychologically unhealthy or abnormal; compulsively.
Nathan Zakaria Grp#3 Bad Monkey Discussion Director pgs. 20 4-30-19
ReplyDelete1. What do you think this text/passage is about?
In the text/passage, it talks about the couple in the beach getting Popsicle.
Nathan W.
ReplyDeletepg 30-39
This selection of pages focuses on two main points: The protagonist new job, and the delivery of the arm to where it belongs. As for the first point, the protag is not in a good place, and has more or less lost his appetite, and the second point needs no elaboration.
Nathan W. - Summary number 3
ReplyDeletepg 40-49
This section is focused on the happenings of the arm, and how certain things just don't add up. The protagonist has noticed something himself, and had heard from two people about things that don't quite make sense.
Axel Vasquez Grp #3 Bad monkey word watcher pgs 40 5/2/19
ReplyDeleteperplexed:completely baffled; very puzzled
decomposing:(of organic matter) in the process of decaying.
Nathan W. Summary
ReplyDeletepg 50-57
Despite having fewer pages than the other summaries I've made, a lot of stuff happened in this chapter.
1. Someone dies or something, no one who was too major in the story though.
2. Voo-Doo stuff or something like that, very random.
3. Protagonist gets a mini exposition dump in the form of three texts, foreshadowing what may happen in the following chapters.
Nathan W. Summarize or something
ReplyDeletePgs. 57-67
Some side plots from earlier get continued, hard to say if resolved. More on the main plot too, just a bit of something or other.
Nathan W.
ReplyDelete68-80
This chapter starts with a bit of a perspective on some other characters. After that, when the focus shifts back to the protagonist, more about the primary story is built upon, little by little. Then a massive revelation just comes out of gersh dern nowhere, namely, more about the arm which the central conspiracy revolves around.
Nathan W.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of my team won't stop messing around, so I chose to write the conflict paragraph myself. It came out a bit more like a summary, but hey, it works.
The conflict:
The protagonist is a former police detective on leave due to misconduct, namely assault. Having his job taken away, and forced into so called “roach patrol”, commonly known as food inspector, he takes a particular case into his own hands to prove himself once more. Coincidentally, the case involves little more than a hand itself. The case in question was one he had a part in shortly before his leave to the roach filled job he currently has. The primary conflict puts him against the unknown perpetrator behind this particularly “handy” incident, connecting the incident to a “handful” of other conflicts throughout the story.
Nathan W. Summary
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A bunch of small things happened. Just a bit of stuff all over the place. I don't have much to summarize. It established an overall idea as to how the events may have played out, though.
Nathan W. Summary
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Once more, this chapter was a compilation of minor events. Multiple B plots were furthered, to little development.
Nathan W.
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In this chapter, someone tries to kill the protagonist! It doesn't go as planed and the now horribly beaten up protagonist survived. A bit more B plot, followed by a segment from the perspective of the (apparently) big bad.
Nathan Zakaria Table 3 Bad Monkey
ReplyDeletepgs. 30-40
What do you think this text/passage is about?
Seeking redemption with the police force, Yancy investigates further, and finds several indications of foul play: the mate from the fishing boat that found the arm is shot to death outside a bar, and his distraught girlfriend admits to Yancy that a woman matching Eve's description gave him the severed arm and paid him to hook it on the tourist's fishing line.
Anthony C.
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In the begging of this chapter, Yancy received his first bribe offer at a tin-roofed seafood joint on Stock Island called Stoney’s Crab Palace.
Anthony C.
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Chapter 1 opens in July in Key West, Florida. A fisherman and his wife have reeled in a human arm with its middle finger sticking up. Andrew Yancy gets a call at his house on Big Pine Key, where a monstrous house is being built next door. Yancy goes to the medical examiner’s office where Dr. Rawlings explains about the arm. Yancy takes the arm home in a cooler with him. He goes to meet with Sonny Summers, the new sheriff, who explains to Yancy that he wants the arm and investigation turned over to the Miami police. Yancy asks whether Sonny is going to lift his suspension. Sonny tells him that it will not be lifted until after the trial and suggests Yancy speak to Bonnie about what happened.
Nathan W. Summary
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Nothing happened. As per quota, the chapter begins with B-plot. Little progress was made story wise as well. Nothing happened.
Anthony C.
ReplyDelete12-21
Chapter 2
In this chapter, Yancy finds sitting in traffic eating popsicle. Yancy is an impatient driver, but with the box of popsicles he has, the iced treats seemed to settle to him. The drive to downtown Miami usually took ninety minutes, but Yancy had stopped along Card Sound Road to purchase blue crabs, as there was still room in the cooler. Later in the chapter, The person responsible for Yancy leaving the Miami Police Department was a sergeant named Johnny Mendez, who at the time was working with the Crime Stoppers hotline. To augment his salary Mendez would recruit friends and relatives to call in with tips on crimes that had already been solved, providing detailed information that detectives already knew.
Anthony C.
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Chapter 3
After that night, Bonnie refused to come back to Yancy’s house. From her line of questioning it became depressingly clear that she thought him capable of murdering somebody and hacking the corpse into pieces. Yancy took this as a sign that he’d failed, over their time as lovers, to showcase his best qualities.He told Bonnie that the severed limb was evidence in an unsolved missing-person case and that he was storing it at home as a personal favor to Sheriff Sonny Summers, which was nearly true.
Anthony C.
ReplyDeleteMy earlier blog post of the pages 30-39 was meant for chapter Four. So here is Chapter 5!
Miguel was no beekeeper; he made that clear. He was an exterminator of bees, a highly trained assassin. Then, Yancy and Miguel have a huge argument about this really big bee hive. Later in this chapter A short death notice had been posted on the Herald’s website. Nicholas Joseph Stripling, age forty-six, of Miami Beach. Survived by his loving wife, Eve, and one daughter, Caitlin Cox. Private services to be held at the Neo-Pentecostal Church of Faith, followed by interment at the St. Lazarus Gardens and Water Park in North Miami. The rest of the chapter is Yancy making his was to North Miami.
Anthony C.
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The typical Key West murder is a drunken altercation over debts, dope or dance partners. Premeditated robbery-homicides are rare because they require a level of planning and sober enterprise seldom encountered among the island’s indolent felons. Charles Phinney was already dead when Yancy reached his side. He lay fish-eyed and soaked with blood, the pockets of his black jeans jerked inside out. His companion, who turned out not to be a hooker, said the killer rolled up on a blue moped, shot Phinney twice, stole his cash and took off. She said the man wore a camo sun mask and a red or orange rain poncho, which would have drawn notice anywhere except Margaret Street on a Friday night. Because of the location of the crime, the city police—not the sheriff’s office, would be handling the investigation.
Anthony C.
ReplyDeleteChapter 7
in this chapter, Woodrow and Ipolene Spillwright owned three houses. The first was a spacious plantation-style spread in their hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, where Woodrow had retired from an executive position with R. J. Reynolds. The second was a ranch-style home near Tempe, Arizona, where the arid climate was said to benefit those with pernicious lung disorders of the sort that afflicted Woodrow, a brainlessly faithful consumer of his employer’s tobacco products.
Axel Vasquez Grp #3 Bad monkey word watcher pgs 40 5/21/19
ReplyDeleteversailles: A city of north-central France west-southwest of Paris.
dismemberment;the action of cutting off a person's or animal's limbs.
Nathan W.
ReplyDeletePg 120 - 140
Stuff happens. Not much, minor progress to stuff that frankly doesn't seem to matter, yada yada, and then the arm makes a big comeback or something.
Anthony C
ReplyDeleteChapter 8
In the begging of this chapter, the salesman at the Ford dealership informed Eve Stripling that the import duty on a new SUV in the Bahamas was 75 percent, a figure she made him repeat. After doing the math in her head, she realized that the new Explorer she’d been eyeing would cost, like, sixty-five grand. Later in the chapter, A government man came all the way from Nassau to inform Neville that it was time to move. The sale of the family homestead to the white American named Christopher was official, the closing documents filed. Neville held no voice in the matter because his half sister, Diana, was the legal trustee.
Nathan Z #3 Bad monkey
ReplyDeletechapter 5
Chapter 5 of Bad monkey talks about Yancy investigating Eve while he is on the island. He becomes concerned for Rosa’s safety when she does not return from the meeting. With a hurricane coming ashore, Yancy goes looking for her and discovers Rosa is being held by Eve and Nick. Nick faked his death to get away from federal investigation and collect on his life insurance policy. While Nick holds Yancy at gunpoint, Neville arrives in time to stab Nick and rescue Yancy and Rosa.
Axel Vasquez Grp #3 Bad monkey word watcher pgs 40 5/22/19
ReplyDeletecompanions;a person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time or with whom one travels.
contamination;the action or state of making or being made impure by polluting or poisoning.