Four essay 2 page for each

Vocabulary for Paranormal Activity:

1) Poltergeist: a supposed supernatural spirit that reveals its presence by creating disturbances, for example, by knocking over objects.

2) Ghost: the spirit of somebody who has died, supposed to appear as a shadowy form or to cause sounds, the movement of objects, or a frightening atmosphere in a place.

3) Spirit: a vital force that characterizes a living being as being alive; a supernatural being that does not have a physical body, for example, a ghost, fairy, angel, or demon

4) Demon: an evil supernatural being such as a ghost or spirit.

5) Angel: a divine being who acts as a messenger of God.

6) Soul: the complex of human attributes that manifests as consciousness, thought, feeling, and will, regarded as distinct from the physical body.

7) Haunt: to frequent a place or appear to somebody in the form of a ghost or other supposed supernatural being.

8) Haunted: inhabited by or visited regularly by a ghost or other supposed supernatural being.

9) Supernatural: relating or attributed to phenomena that cannot be explained natural laws.

10) Tract House: one of many similar houses built on a tract of land.

11) Suburb: a district, especially a residential one, on the edge of a city or large town.

12) Bedroom Community: a town or suburb inhabited mainly by people who travel to work in a nearby city.

13) Mass Media: all of the communications media that reach a large audience, especially television, radio, and newspapers.

14) Television: an electronic device for receiving and reproducing the images and sounds of a television signal.

15) Consumer: somebody or something that consumes something, by eating it, drinking it, or using it up.

16) Materialism: devotion to material wealth and possessions at the expense of spiritual or intellectual values.

17) Limbo: a state in which somebody or something is neglected or is simply left in oblivion.

18) Afterlife: a form of existence believed to continue after death.

19) Heaven: a place or condition of supreme happiness and peace where good people are believed to go after death, and, especially in Christianity, the dwelling place of God and the angels.

20) Hell: according to many religions, the place where the souls of people who are damned suffer eternal punishment after death.

21) Desecrate: to damage something sacred, or do something that is offensive to the religious nature of something.

22) Repression: in Freudian psychology, a mechanism by which individuals protect themselves from threatening thoughts by blocking them out of the conscious mind.

23) Exorcism: the use of prayer or religious ritual to drive out evil spirits.

24) Nuclear Family: a social unit that consists of a mother, a father, and their children.

25) Paternity: descent from the father.

26) Patriarchy: a social system in which men are regarded as the authority within the family and society, and in which power and possessions are passed on from father to son.

27) Parricide: the murder of a parent or closer elative.

28) Zombie Bank: a financial institution that has an economic net worth less than zero but continues to operate because its ability to repay its debts is shored up by implicit or explicit government credit support.

29) Zombie Company: a media term for a company that needs constant bailouts in order to operate

30) Toxic Assets: is a popular term for certain financial assets whose value has fallen significantly and for which there is no longer a functioning market, so that such assets cannot be sold at a price satisfactory to the holder

Questions for Paranormal Activity:

1) In P1, what exactly does the demon want from Katie? Does it ultimately get what

it wants?

2) Why is Micah such a big jerk in Paranormal Activity? Why doesn’t Katie just leave

him for a better choice in boyfriends?

3) Why does Katie allow Micah to film her in the bathroom when it’s clear that the

demon lives in the attic? Why doesn’t Micah put the cameral in the attic after

discovering that’s where the demon lives?

4) Why don’t Katie and Micah just leave their home after the demon starts bothering

them? I know the psychic said that it wouldn’t do any good, but he also states that

he’s not an expert on demons. Shouldn’t they at least check out into a hotel and see

if it confuses the demon?

5) What does the demon communicate through the Ouija board? Is fire itself a form

of communication?

6) Who edits the many hours of video footage that Micah shoots, and then puts it

back together to form the film itself?

7) For crying out loud, why don’t they call the police? Or the FBI or CIA? I assume

that either one of those agencies would love to investigate the presence of a demon

on U.S. soil!

Questions for Paranormal Activity 3:

1) What does the demon want with Kristi? Does he ultimately get what he wants?

2) Who is Dennis, and what does he do for a living, and why is that important? Why

isn’t he married to Julie, after all, he does film weddings for a living?

3) Who is Toby, and why does he like to play tricks on Julie, Dennis, and Katie?

4) Why does he bite Randi after he plays Bloody Mary in the bathroom with Katie?

5) Where is Katie’s and Kristi’s biological father? Why doesn’t he ever even call his

two daughters?

6) Who is Grandma Lois, and why does she want her daughter to have a son?

7) Why does Grandma Lois allow Toby to kill her daughter and marry her

granddaughter?

8) Why does Toby stalk the babysitter? Why does he put on the sheet? Why is he

only about three feet tall after Kristi describes him as being “very tall?”

9) How come Katie can’t remember any of this happening in her childhood in the

first Paranormal Acitvity?