Chapter 4-5 Notes + The Five Senses

Chapter 4

• The woman is taking care of the rich man
• God’s don’t like it, she’s playing with life and death
• God’s send a ferocious storm that takes off roofs
• People want to just let the man die but the woman protects him and keeps him warm with her bosom
• A demon comes to attack her, and take possible vengeance
• Woman prays to the god of love and claims that she loves the man
• The goddess of love answers the prayers and sends the god away

Chapter 5

• Rain stops, and the storm ends
• The poor is left to starve
• Rich people come in a helicopter to save the wounded man.
• They pay the woman five coins
• They describe the man as a rich man they had never seen before.
• Use coins to buy seeds.

The Five Senses

Taste

• Puny? True. Dry? True. 15 (Talked about how peasants had dry, bad, and insufficient food.)
• They had curled from the lack of moisture. 15
• Dry, then dryer. 22 (Taste the dryness)
• Seeds they were forced to eat. 22 (Shows how gross the food is.)
• Hungry cattle. (Shows how even the animals are starving.) 22
• The food the poor eat is very bad and is often very dry

Smell

• A smell of death invaded the cabin through festering sores. 44
• Smelling the stench of his rotting flesh. 51
• She brews teas. 35 (Nice smells of teas)
• Villages amid flamboyants, poinsettias, azaleas, ficus, eucalyptus, and magnolias. 10 (The smell of the flowers)
• Pushed a wilderness of herbs, of the bush to thicken the underbrush, keeping the trees forever green. 11 (The world around them would smell like the outdoors and spring when the trees are fresh making an outdoorsy smell.)

Feel

• Bracing themselves against the hard-hitting rain. 42
• The air was wet. 43
• Crashed into a tree with a force that might have killed a dozen men. 50
• Dry black skin in mud hardened strips. 52
• How tenderly he treated the voluptuous Asaka. 11
• It ran through his fingers like sand. 13

Hear

• Shrieks of terrified infants rose up in the cabin. 42
• Her words created a silence. They stilled even the cries of frightened babies. 43
• The hammering of the rain. 43
• She cried out in anguish. 46
• The bird sang. 52
• The noise of the storm, thunder,,, etc.

See

• Raindrops pounded leaves. Gusts of wind-bent trees. The ground dampened, then was covered by a rush of water. 40
• Needles of water drilling down into the earth softened it to mud. Houses and mud slid downhill, taking with them those who had been clinging to slippery rocks for support. 42
• They looked at the mountains where stones gleamed in the clear day. They looked at the woods, where standing trees supported those that had fallen, and. 48
• The passengers who emerged from the big bird were city men dressed in rain slickers and hip boots. 50
• It stands on a high hill surrounded by the Black Mountains. 53
• Trees reached up to the tops of the mountaintops to touch the heavens. 10