A Scanner Darkly: The Movie

1. The movie helps clear the confusion about the Scramble suit and how it looks and works.
2. Shows a lot more about Donna and Bob’s relationship.
3. Jerry Fabin is no longer part of the story.
4. Charles Freck isn’t in the movie a lot compared to the book.
5. Shows what Substance D looks like.

1. Why isn’t Jerry Fabin in the Movie?
2. Why were major parts of the book left out?
3. Why are Jerry and Charles characters combined?
4. Why was the scene with Luckman choking and Barris not saving him included?

1. Cajole- to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance.
2. Barris:Okay, okay! I mean jeez. Or as the Germans would say "leise" which translates to "be cool". Just be cool.

1. Fade Transition Chapter 9 going into Chapter 10
2. Chapter 4: :20-Chapter 5 Over the Shoulder between Barris and Freck

1. The film was very good and cleared a lot of questions I had because it showed what Phillip K. Dick was trying to get across but couldn’t really explain in a book.

A Scanner Darkly

1. Donna is Hank!
2. The police were using Fred.
3. Donna sends Fred to New Path.
4. New Path is producing the Substance D drug.
5. Fred is renamed Bruce is finds the blue flower that makes the drug.

1. Why is the book called A Scanner Darkly?
2. What happens to Charles Freck, did he die?
3. What happened to Barris and Luckman?
4. Did Bruce every meet back with Donna?

1. Emanate- to come out from a source
2. Gunjy- ??? Made up???
3. Stoically- not affected by or showing passion or feeling

Falling action- “What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me? Into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better, because if the scanner sees only darkly the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again.”
Dénouement- the ending

1. We learn that Fred was being used by Donna (who was really Hank) and is now stuck in New Path.

A Scanner Darkly

1. Substance D is also called slow death which is basically what it does to the user.
2. Arctor’s constant use of Substance D is causing a separation between the two hemispheres of his brain.
3. Arctor is becoming a user!
4. Donna tells Arctor that she won’t have sex with anyone because she plans to use her vagina to smuggle four pounds of cocaine across the Canadian border!
5. Arctor is thinking about killing Jim Barris.


1. Why does Charles Freck cry after he leaves Arctor’s house?
2. Why doesn’t Donna want Bob?
3. What is Barris doing with the mushrooms?
4. Why is Barris using toxic mushrooms?

1. genuflect- to be servilely obedient or respectful
2. coaxed-to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering
3. gratis- without charge or payment; free

1. Protagonist- Bob Arctor/ Fred
2. Genre- Science Fiction

1. In this part we learn that Barris is crazy and is betraying Arctor.

A Scanner Darkly

1. Charles Freck and Bob Arctor are connected.



2. Bob Arctor is Fred.



3. The scramble suit is some kind of advanced technology that hasn’t been brought to public.



4. Fred has to report to the headquarters for daily briefings about the resent substance D information.


5. Fred is starting to get addicted.

1. Why is Barris so werid?
   
2. Is Barris hiding something?


3. Is Fred starting to get addicted?


4. Does Fred always wear the scramble suit?

1. Futility-a useless act or gesture
   
2. dredge-an excavation activity or operation usually carried out at least partly underwater
   
3. writ- a formal written document

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1. in this part of the book we learn that Barris betrayed Bob and is the one who called him in.