What I found in 'Red Shoe' as a Word Watcher

Well, I just want to post what I found after reading Red Shoe and took role as a word watcher. This is just to help anyone who might looking for it on the internet.

So... Being a word watcher isn’t an easy task to do, it is the same as other roles in reviewing a literature work. I mean, I was reading the book and enjoying the story but also I have to put my attention to every word written there. Lucky on me, it is easier because the word used in the story is not so unfamiliar –there only a few of them that we do not know the meaning—and it is helped by the dictionaries. Reading the stories to find the unfamiliar vocabularies is difficult because some of them should be found on internet as some of them related to the habit and culture of the place when and where Red Shoe is set.

Below I will provide some unfamiliar words we found, We consider to write the meaning of the word, the chapter and pages where the word can be found and the words’ part of speech. There is only one word we do not know the meaning and can not find it even on internet:

No	Word	Meaning	Chapter	Part of Speech
1	Lawn mower	A machine that you used to cut grass	Opening	(n)
2	Psalm	A song or poem from the Bible	Opening	(n)
3	Scabbard	A sheath for the blade of a sword	Chapter 2 p.29	(n)
4	Greensickness	Illness that causes by lacks of iron. Only happen to women.	Chapter 4 p.39	(n)
5	Kookaburra	(Kind of birds)	Chapter 5 p.44	(n)
6	Somersault	An acrobatic exercise which a person’s body rotates 360’ around a horizontal axis with feet.	Chapter 10 p.85	(n)
7	Ja Nie Chat Chu	-	Chapter 20	-

We also found that several particular word are used more than twice in this story from the opening, first chapter until chapter twenty-three. Actually, it is a little hard because as this is a printed version, we have to count the words we found which sometimes we forgot to do that. So, below are the words used most in the novel:

No	Word	Frequency
1	Breakdown Nervous	6
2	Stick	10
3	The end of the earth	6
4	Greensickness	6
5	Egg	6
7	Polio	15
8	Basin	6
9	Underneath	5

source: amazon