ROAR 2

5 Things I Understand

1. Luca Turin spent much of his time examining different types of chemicals and what effect they had on the sense of smell.

2. HCN seems like a possible substance that could have an effect on the sense of smell and possibly trigger it.

3. Turin payed attention to the shape of receptors how to differentiate between different ones.

4. Who interest seemed Luca Turin a lot was the fact that some chemicals smelt like thingswe were very familiar with. For example Sulfur smelt like rotten eggs.

5. Through his research Turin finds the concept that receptors can be "right-handed", this is a metaphor for explaining the way in which they recieve things.

4 Questions

1. Does Luca Turin believe that his way of researching was effective enough to come out with a good theory?
2. Through the research that Luca Turin did, what new and intersting facts did he learn?
3. How did Luca Turin apply prior knowledge of the sense of smell to help him to com up with an overall solid theory?
4. If Luca Turin were to change something about his way of culminating data, what would he change?

3 Vocabulary Words

1.axiomatically (page 74): something that is taken for granted
2. sommelier (page 82): pack animal driver
3. flagrantly (page 87): burning

2 Literary Techniques
1. Imagery
"...rocking the foundations of a multibillion-dollar global industry..."(page 75)
2. Characterization
"He loved the monastic,obsessional fee of it..."(page 81)

1 Sentence Overview
Luca Turun does intense research on the sense of smell and tries to amalmagate his findings in order to come up with a theory.