Deadlock: Personajes

Ya que en clase estamos por terminar este libro y, la mayoría, no entiende quién es quién, les haré una lista de los personakes que aparecen y el rol que cumplen en esta novela (lo voy a escribir en inglés, si hay alguna duda, hablenme o lo que sea).

Deadlock: Characters

• Vic Warshawski: Protagonist of this story. She's a detective. In addition, she was Boom Boom's cousin. 

• Boom Boom: Ex-hockey player from the Black Hawks. He has been murdered.

• Clayton Phillips: vice-president of the Eudora Grain Company. He has been killed.

• Janet: Boom Boom's secretary 

• Bobby Mallory: a policeman

• Niels Grafalk: owner of the Grafalk Steamship Line 

• Murray Ryerson: a newspaper reporter

• Paige Harrington: a ballet dancer and Boom Boom's "girlfriend"

• Martin Bledsoe: owner the Pole Star Line 

• Pierre Bouchard: ice hockey player from the Black Hawks and Boom Boom's best friend

• Howard Mattingly: ice hockey player from the Black Hawks. He has been murdered

• Jeannine Carrington/Mrs Phillips: Mr. Phillips' wife and Paige Carrington's sister

• Captain Bemis: Lucella (it's a ship)'s captain 

• Mike Sheridan: Lucella's chief engineer

Deadlock: Actividades para practicar

Como todo 2ºA sabe, Deadlock es un libro confuso. No creo que sea tan complicado, pero el argumento y los personajes son un dolor de cabeza. Ahora que se nos dijo que Patricia va a hacer un examen oral de este libro, les dejo unas actividades con las que podrán repasar...

Deadlock - Exercises 

(preguntas sacadas de El Rincón del Vago)

Answer the following questions

• Why did Vic want to find out more about Boom Boom's death?

• What did Boom Boom's grandmother tell Vic?

• What was Paige Carrington doing in Boom Boom's apartment?

• Who were the four men with Vic at lunch in the club, and what connection did they have with Boom Boom?

• What was the accident to the Lucella Wieser?

• Why did Grafalk dislike Bledsoe?

• What did Vic find in the study on her second visit to Boom Boom's apartment

• Why did Vic fly to Thunder Bay?

• What did Vic see in the water when she got on the ship for the second time?

• Why did the man with red hair set off the bomb?

Why had Bledsoe's plane already left when Vic arrived at Sault Ste Marie airport?

• What was Vic looking for when she searched the Eudora grain offices?

• What did Vic find behind the photo?

• What was the difference between the invoice and the shipping contract?

• Who was found dead in the hold of Martin Bledsoe's ship?

• Why did Paige Carrington and Jeannine Phillips protect each other? 

• Why didn't Mrs Grafalk like Jeannine Phillips?

• Why didn't Grafalk tell Eudora Grain that Phillips was cheating them? 

• Why did Paige agree to watch Boom Boom for Grafalk?

• Why did Vic cut a piece of carpet from Grafalk's boat?

• Why did Vic cut her arm?

• Why did Vic jump into the water?

• Why didn't Grafalk shoot Vic while she was in the water?

Podrán encontrar las respuestas en el siguiente link