Spook: Chapter 1

5 Comments
1] Dr. Rawat and Mary Roach is traveling to India to investigate cases of kids who claim they can communicate with their previous lifes.
2] Ninety five percent of the children in Stevensons cases began talking about a previous existence between the ages of 2 and 4 and forgets about it by the age of 5.
3] Delusions of reincarnation typically fir the culture and religion of the deluded.
4] Dr. Rawat wrote "Reincarnation: How strong is the scientific evidence?"
5] Most Indian villagers accept reincarnation as fact.

4 Questions
1] Who is Aishwary?
2] Why do kids at the ages of 2-4 tend to remember their previous personalities?
3] When you die, does part of your personality transfer into a newborn?
4] How long ago was reincarnation first reported?

3 Vocabulary
1] Discrepancies: lack of agreement; difference; inconsistency.
2] Improbable: Not probable; unlikely.
3] Chimerical: Imaginary; unreal.

2 Literary Terms
1] "As though they'd been scooped up in a Yahtzee cup and tossed haphazardly onto the asphalt." - Metaphor.
2] "We enter a lurching kaleidoscopic roundabout." -Metaphor.

1 Overview Sentence
Mary Roach and Dr. Rawat travels to India to investigate a boy named Aishwary, who is supposedly the reincarnation of a dead poor factory work named Rani.