Reading Response Non-Fiction

 

Name : Reihanesa Putri Nur Nabila

NIM : 20.03.52.0026

                   

                    Non Fiction Reading

Response Questions

All of these responses require evidence from the text. Prove your answers.

 

1.          What did you find interesting about this selection?

Answer : Because the story about a Anneliese Michel tells of a mysterious incident that a young girl named Anneliese Michel.

2.         Did you find any interesting words in this selection?  Choose one word and tell why it is important in the text.

Answer : Anneliese Michel (born 21 September 1952 - died 1 July 1976 at the age of 23 years) is a German woman who had undergone exorcism in Catholicism just before her death.

3.          Why did the author write this selection?  Prove your answer.

Answer : Because he wanted to uncover the mystery behind the death of Anneliese Michel, who allegedly died due to being possessed by a demon.

4.         What was the main idea of this selection?  What supporting details helped you figure out the main idea?  Use the text to support your response.

Answer : His physical condition continues to become when the symptoms are various, it is necessary to use drugs as well. Michel and his family began to believe that Michel was possessed by an evil spirit.

5.   Were there any text features that helped you better understand this selection?

What were they and how did they help you?

Answer : Using wikipedia features and supporting articles and seeing real video videos on youtube.

6.        What else would you like to know about the topic of this selection?

Answer : I want the truth about the truth behind the death of Anneliese Michel whose body was possessed by 6 demons.

7.     Thoroughly explain the events, procedures, ideas, or concepts that are included in this selection.  Tell what happened and why based on specific

information from the text.

Answer :Anneliese Michel is known for being mysterious about her alleged death due to her exorcism. When Michel was sixteen years old, he had a seizure attack and then it was confirmed by testing for symptoms that showed that it was a chronic disease, namely temporal lobe epilepsy. Then, he also experienced mental pressure and was treated in a mental hospital. In the era of entering his twentieth year, he became less and less tolerant of various religious objects and then began to hear voices that did not come from anywhere. His physical condition continued to worsen despite taking drugs and starting to recommend suicide. There is no doubt that Michel was possessed, his family appealed to the Catholic priest so that an exorcism activity could be carried out at that time.

8.     Is this selection a firsthand (primary) or secondhand (secondary) account of what happened?  Explain how you know with evidence from the text.  How might it be different if the point of view were different?

Answer : This account is the wikipedia account of the second author and is based on the facts of the two and has made a horror film.

9.     What is the main purpose of this selection?  Is the author trying to answer, explain, or describe in the text?

Answer : The author describes and tells about the mysterious death of Anneliese Michel which was quite an uproar for the whole world because she was possessed by the figure of 6 strong demons.

10. What illustrations in this selection helped you understand the topic?  Explain your response using details from the text. Draw a sketch of the illustration.

Answer :Anneliese Michel (born 21 September 1952 - died 1 July 1976 at 23 years of age) is a German woman who had undergone exorcism in Catholicism the year before her death. Investigations carried out confirmed that Michel was deficient in growth substances and lost body fluids. The mother of Michel's father and the priests concerned were charged with negligent murder. Michel suffered from seizures and is reported to have undergone treatment for psychiatric problems, all of which did not work smoothly. His physical condition continued to deteriorate whenever he felt various symptoms which made him have to take medication as well. Michel and his family began to fully believe that Michel was possessed by an evil spirit. This issue has attracted the attention of the public, journalists and text reviewers because of the unusual decision of the priests concerned to have to practice the Catholic religion which is more than 200 years old to carry out exorcisms. One of the films entitled The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a reference to Michel's story.

11. What point is the author trying to make in this selection?  What evidence does the author provide to support the point?

Answer : This suspicion was strengthened after Anneliese admitted that she often saw faces and heard strange whispers in her ears. The whisper that he remembered most was the one that said he was cursed and would rot in hell. His family, too, tried to seek help from the priests to help remove the demon. By Aldi Junaidi.

12. How does the author structure this selection?  Is it a comparison, cause and effect, or a sequence of events?  Why did the author use that structure?

Answer : Because it is raised from a true story that has strong evidence and events that really made Anneliese and her family.

13. Using two selections on the same topic, what key points can you tell about the topic. How are the ideas similar in the texts?  Use evidence from both

selections.

Answer : Anneliese Michel died under mysterious circumstances. Before he died Anneliese often got voices which caused him to be afraid too much and on the other hand he also had a congenital disease.

14. After reading two selections on the same topic, what did you learn about the topic?  Use evidence from both texts.

Answer : We have to get closer to God in order to be protected from evil and we must respect each other both visible and invisible.

15. How did text features help you understand the information in this selection?

Answer : The feature is looking for those in Indonesian and looking for evidence of articles and videos in Indonesian that support this article.