"The Bar Code Tattoo" By Suzanne Weyn

VOCABULARY

Chapters1-7

Erupted- to burst forth

Repelled- to thrust back

Mesmerizing-

to compel by

fascination

Seemingly- apparent

Chapters 8-14

Assault: violent physical or verbal attack

Advantages: benefits; gain; profit

Chapters 15-21

Convulse:

contract involuntarily

Reluctant: not eager

Abruptly:

quickly and without warning

Chapters 22-28

Oasis:

• something serving as a refuge, relief, or pleasant change from what is usual, annoying, difficult, etc

Lean-To:

• a shack or shed supported at one side by trees or posts and having an inclined roof

Comprehension Questions

Chapters 1-7

Q: Who is Amber moving in with?

A: her cousin

Q: What is the name of the campaign Mfumbe is in charge of?

A: Decode

What do you think was going through the other Decode members mind’s when Zekeal showed up to their secret meeting with Kayla?

They were probably thinking, “Can we trust her?” or,” What is Zekeal thinking?”

What do you think Zekeal and Nedra talked about when they stepped out of the meeting?

They probably talked about how Zekeal was disappointed in Nedra, and that they should break up because of her actions.

Why do you think there is an entire guide about how to get someone else to acquire a bar code?

Because the government and Global-1 are so desperate to have people get the tattoo that they are resorting to spies and undercover people to try and get their loved ones to acquire a tattoo.

Chapters 15-21

Q: Why was the fact that the nurses were going to get Dr. Andrews frightening to Kayla?

A: Dr. Andrews was going to give her the Bar Code Tattoo

Q: Why do you think Mava and Toz were so understanding that Kayla had stowed away?

Q: Who popped up from the trapdoor? And why was it a pleasant surprise?

A: Mfumbe- he had always treated her nice and she could trust him

7.) They were there to get Kayla and take her back to Tattoo Gen’s headquarters. Nedra wants Kayla so she can get the Council Chief spot and it would look good on Zeke’s record

6.) What do you think August saw in the BioTech plant?

6.) Experiments for the process of designer genes (where parents can pick the genes their child will have)

4.) In Nedra’s letter it says Kayla is a wanted criminal, why?

4.)It is said Kayla killed her own mother and caused the mysterious deaths of Toz and Mava Alan.

Setting

Characters

Minor

Truck Driver (22):

Drugstore owner (23):

Police Officer (23):

• Mr. Kerr

• Amber

• Gene

• Mrs. Fern

Tall Man (25):

Woman (24):

• Allyson

• Nedra

• August

• Tod Myers

• Mr. Duggan

• Mrs. Hammon

• Mr. Thorn

• Mrs. Thorn

a Nurse

Dr. Anders

Middle-Aged woman

Waitress

Sarah

Oasis Custemers

Major

• Ashley Reed –

• Mfumbe

• Zekeal

Kayla

Katie

Nedra

Toz

Mava

Eutonah

Plot line

Intro:

The Barcode tattoo becomes very popular. Amber raves about her barcode tattoo and wants Kayla to get one. Kayla's father commits suicide because of his barcode tattoo.

Rising Action

Kayla joins Decode. She finds out that one of the Decode members, Zekeal, is part of Tattoo Gen, and she thinks he is betraying her.

Climax

After meeting Eutonah, the resistance group gets discovered in the Adirodack Mountains by Tattoo Gen.

Falling Action

Kayla is in the woods hiking and Eutonah tells Kayla that she needs to go to Washington DC to support Dave Young.

Conclusion

They meet up with other resistance groups and work on living in the Wilderness. They develop new telepathic skills that will later help them.

The Bar Code Tattoo

Chapter 1-

• Mr. Kerr’s Office- 1 day before the death of her father

• Staircase at school- after meeting with Mr. Kerr

Chapter 2-

• School- March 18

• Kayla’s house- March 18

Chapter 3-

• Kayla’s house – March 28

• Hallway at school- March 28

Chapter 4-

• School- day before Kayla’s birthday

• Mrs. Harmon’s office- after the fight

Chapter 5-

• Kayla’s house- April 16

• Post Office- before shooting- Kayla’s birthday

Chapter 6-

• Kayla’s house- Before Amber moves

• Artsie’s Art Store- day she got the job

Chapter 7-

• Hotel Amber is temporarily living in- day Amber moved

• Dark Alley- before “Decode” meeting

Defy- to challenge the power of

Hunched: to shove or push

Irony- opposite of meaning

Savages:

• fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
• uncivilized; barbarous:savage tribes.
• enraged or furiously angry, as a person.

Cosmos:

• the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.

Undertone:

• a low or subdued tone:

Adirondack:

• a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.

Adirondacks. Adirondack Mountains.

Astral:

• pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped.

Tumble Down:

• dilapidated; ruined; rundown

Discarded:

• to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of

Bile:

• a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats.

Avail:

• to be of use or value to; profit; advantage

Convulse:

contract

involuntarily

Rous: without finish

Manipulative:

control or influence skillfully

Acceptance: the act of being accepted

Ravenously:

in a manner of +

someone who is

very hungry

Endures: give support

Indication:

something

that

suggests

Suspicious: tendency to arouse suspicion

Institution: a building devoted to the promotion of a particular cause or program

Engulfed: to swallow up

Kayla and Mfumbe get back together and decide to go to DC to help David Young with getting the bar code banned

Denouement

Outcropping: exposed bedrock or an unconsolidated deposit at the surface of the ground

Chapter 22:

• The woods- midmorning/afternoon

• An abandoned mine shaft- afternoon

• Back of 18 wheeler- evening (5:00 pm)

• Adirondack Mt. (Bottom)- night

• Edge of woods- night/morning

• Keene Valley, New York

Chapter 23:

• A boulder- the next day

• A drugstore

Chapter 24:

• Lean-to- 2 days and nights

• A field in the Mountains

Chapter 25:

• Whiteface Mt

• Cave

Chapter 26:

• Woods around cave

• Old abandoned ski resort

• Mountain’s tree line

Chapter 27:

• Ski Resort

• Tree line

Chapter 28:

• Whiteface Mt.

• Dock on lake

• Abandoned hunting cabin

Q: What does Amber want Kayla to get for her 17th birthday?

Q: Why is not likely for Kayla to get an art scholarship?

A: Her computer skill grades are low.

A: get the barcode tattoo

A: They knew that the Bar Code tattoo was an awful thing and they felt that they needed to help anyone that they could. They had lived, and experienced a lot in their life.

Q: What happens to Kayla's dad?

Q: Where does Kayla get a job?

A: Artsie's Art

A: It was a pleasant memory of her mother who had just passed away

Q: Why was Kayla’s dream just what she needed?

Q: Why were they forced to break through the tolls? And what had this breakthrough resulted in?

A: they had no money to pay them- this time Toz and Mava experienced a fatal car crash. Kayla barley got away in to the woods

A: He dies.

Q: Why was she in such a rush to get out of the Eatery? And what happened due to her rush?

A: She was on the news as a wanted person- She ran into a nurse, burnt herself on hot tea, and her fake tattoo was ruined

A: She followed the small river that she had found

Q: How did she navigate in the woods for a while?

Q: Did Kayla's dad commit Suicide? Why?

Yes, because of his barcode tattoo.

Chapter 8-

A cluster of abandoned warehouses that are now used as clubs.

Chapter 9-

One warehouse in particular where Decode has secret meetings. The ware house is owned by Augusts’ father.

Chapter 10-

the Adriondack Mountains via the Virtual Reality helmet. One that’s over, Kayla is back in the secret warehouse.

Chapter 11-

The secret warehouse.

Chapter 12-

Kayla’s house. Then, after her mother storms out of the house, she goes over to Zekeal’s house. The next day, they once again go back to the secret warehouse.

Chapter 13-

The secret warehouse. Then Kayla spends the night at Zekeal’s house, and in the morning she finds out that he is a double agent. She then runs home to her house and finds the door wide open.

Chapter 14-

Kayla’s house and at the very end, the hospital.

Chapters 8-14

Chapters 22-28

Chapter 15:

• Hospital- morning and afternoon of the day after the fire

Chapter 16: afternoon-night of day after fire (May 22)

• Hospital room- afternoon

• Hospital room- moments later

• Woods near Hospital

• In her dream- in her house with mom day of fire

• All night diner- night time

• Katie’s tractor trailer- after eating dinner

• Roscoe Diner- after a few hours of driving

Chapter 17:

• Forest on side of Superlink- May 23 (Early morning)

• The Super Eatery- 10 minutes after awaking

• The back of a Green hybrid Car- after escaping from eatery

Chapter 18:

• Toz’s Car (The green hybrid)

• Sarah’s apartment (Afternoon of 23rd)

Chapter 19:

• Sarah’s Apartment- (23rd through June 5th)

• Toz’s Car on the Superlink- June 5th

• Woods next to crashed car on Superlink- June 5th

Chapter 20:

• Woods- all that evening

• The Oasis- that night

• Foot of large pine tree

• Back entrance of oasis- midnight

Chapter 21:

• Oasis- Midnight

• Mfumbe’s house in the Woods- night/morning

• Woods/River- all the next day

2.) He has always loved her but was sacred to make a move because she liked Zeke and didn’t want to come between them. I personally think it helped their trip because it gave both of them something/one to live for

What do you think causes Tattoo Manic Psychosis?

Tattoo Manic Psychosis is caused by something tragic happening to someone because of the barcode tattoo, and it causes them to feel the need to remove the tattoo at any cost.

2.) Why did Mfumbe kiss Kayla? Do you think this helped or hindered their trip?

What do you think drove Kayla’s mother to try to burn the tattoo off of her?

Tattoo Manic Psychosis that was caused by Kayla’s father’s suicide.

I think that by making the tattoos necessary by law, Global-1 would benefit greatly from it. And since majority of the people running the country work for Global-1, the system is corrupt.

7.) Why were Zekeal and Nedra in the woods? What did they want from Kayla?

What motives do you think the government had for making the bar code tattoos necessary by law?

9.) Global-1 has stopped the course of natural human evolution by only letting the people that have the healthiest genes survive but the other people are adapting and using more of their brain which has caused the increase of psychic ability

9.) What has Global-1 done to human evolution? How does this explain the peoples rise of psychic abilities?

Deli Man (22):

11.) Some members from Tattoo Gen including Zeke and Nedra because they needed to kill off the resistance groups and wanted Kayla

11.) Who attacked the resistance group and why?

A top secret group of people that help the resistance groups send and receive mail so it cannot be traced

13.)What are the “Postmen”?