Alex Kaznica
Monday, July 30, 2000
Before Reading
Process of selecting this book
I use processes that are most common among my peers to select my books.I usually have one of my parental units, usually my mom, to go out and look for books. This is the way it happens because up until now I had no mode of transportation.I have faith in my mother to make a good choice; she usually does, for she knows most of my likes and most of my dislikes.This is how it's been for a long time, but at least she can pick some pretty interesting books.
During Reading
Three unfamiliar words/unfamiliar usages
· Alighieri – meaning hell or some hellish place
· Ironmongery – heavily tooled, worked, and strangely shaped iron
· Drolls – cliffs and mountebanks
Notes
The seller of the lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm in a green town in Illinois, in late October. The lightning rod salesman calls to the boys and asks if their folks are home, they say no. He asks if they have any money, the boys shook their heads. He then asks them their names. William Halloway and Jim Nightshade the boys reply. The boys begin to tell their story on how they were born only minutes apart around Halloween. The lightning rod salesman decides to give the boys a rod for free because, he feels a storm is coming and it's going to hit Jim's house. The contraption was covered in ancient dialects, the language of the storms. He goes on about the storm that is going to hit. "It's going to be no ordinary storm," the lightning rod salesman says. He says his name is Tom Furry and for the boys to hammer it high on the roof. Tom totes his bag of contraptions and walks on as the boys nail the rod up.
The boys head down to the library for their weekly run. They get to the library and Jim heard some strange music off in the distance. Will's dad meets the boys there; he works a…