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Heroin by Humberto Hernandez
5/4/3/2/1

5 Comments
They are explaining that there is a flower that has such a strong order it makes people fall asleep.
The poppy flower they are talking about is opium.
Drugs are used: to attain euphoric physical states
for recreational pleasure
to escape the travails of earthly suffering
Farmers in the north did not get as much rain as everyone else.
The Sumerian’s grew opium poppy
4 Questions
What is the description of the flower about in the beginning?
What does the Wizard of Oz have to do with heroin?
Did they know that by trading the opium poppy they were spreading the drug?
What does it mean to oppress widows or orphans?
3 Vocabulary Words
Opium- brownish gummy extract from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy that contains several highly addictive narcotic alkaloid substances such as morphine and codeine
Larcenous- the unlawful taking and removal of another person's property
Gruel- a thin cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water
2 Literary Terms
Allusion- When they mention the events in the Wizard of Oz
Simile- “The flowers were like little explosions“ (pg.3)
1 Overview Sentence
The poppy flower was an opium. It started to be grown unknowingly of its powers and affect that it could have on people so it was innocently traded.