Saturday, November 29, 2008

ROAR Hisorty book

Delroy Demontegnac
Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner

Chapter 7-9
5) Comments I have:
1) Gordy artistes who works for him becomes more successful which attract more singers to try get into his business.
2) Gordy had kids about like 4 and he have a wife.
3) Gordy business sometimes has problems with money and different things like his family in his life.
4) Motown records starts releasing albums national around the country.
5) Soon after when he became more successful wanna be singers from all around wanted to get a record deal from Motown.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1) How old are his kids?
2) Did he get divorced before?
3) What happened to his parents after when he becomes more successful?
4) Were his concerns and problems finding money to invest in his singers?

3) Vocabulary:
1) Deluged (60)- a great flood of water
2) Implored (60)- to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy
3) Exasperation (60) - an act or instance of exasperating; provocation.
2) Examples of literary terms:
1) “My heart drops “(58)-This is example of personification because it’s describing object characteristics of a heart dropping.
2) “We don’t go for Dilly- dilly-gum-gum’ type lyrics.”(56)- This is an example of a metaphor which is trying compare no so go with saying it in a different way.
1) Summary:
2) His Motown records became more a hit which increased amount of singers becoming more on top and him becoming richer.

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