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Meeting 2 At the Mountains of Madness

Question 1. How did Dyer react when he and his party found the ruins beyond the Himalayas? Dyer was ecstatic and very amazed by all the lifeforms that lived there. There were fourteen different life forms that they had discovered. Question 2. What happened to the few members that went off on their own expedition? They went missing and Dyer and everyone else went searching for them. They were found back at their camp site slaughtered with one member missing with a dog. Question 3. What does Dyer decide to do once he found the missing members? He decided to investigate the camp site. He found other samples of life forms, however the initial ones they had found were missing. He decided to close off the camping area. Question 4. How did Dyer come about the stone city over the mountains? He and Danforth flew an airplane over and saw the city. This is where he learned about the history of the "Elder Things". Question 5. What was Dyer's feelings on the "Elder Things"? He is fascinated with the way they came to Earth and how they survived. They view many murals while in the city. However they find out that they have come back to life and are the lifeforms that killed the missing explorers.

Discuss the mood or tone of your book. What is the overriding emotion of this book? What examples back up your claim? The book is very mysterious and thrilling. The party discovered new lifeforms and specimens on this expedition which is very interesting. The thrilling part of the book is the "Elder Things" that are trying to kill the rest of Dyer's team. The crew members are not knowledgeable of their surroundings and this plays a big part of the overall tone of the book.

Summary: The beginning, we talked about what we thought about the book and how we are liking the book. Hans and I both find the literature hard because the sentence structure and some of the vocabulary is hard to understand. We then started to discuss what we thought the tone of the book was, and it was hard to decide in the beginning because so much was going on. We decided to go with mystery and thriller and then expanded on why we thought it was that. We then started to discuss the questions and on some of the question I had to go back to the book to make sure all of the answers are right. We then wrapped it all up covering what we thought might happen at the end of the book and what we each group member had to accomplish by that next meeting.