Don't Stop the Carnival Study Guide

Exhausted from a long plane ride from New York City, Norman Paperman arrives on the island of Amerigo (formerly known as Kinja and still called that by natives) with his boisterous friend Lester Atlas. They are rowed to the Gull Reef Club in a dinghy by one of the native employees, and meet current owner Amy Ball, a proper English woman who's offered the club for sale for $55,000. After their long journey, Atlas heads for the bar while Paperman decides to go snorkeling and almost drowns. He's pulled handily from the water by an underwater demolition team (UDT) member, otherwise known as a Navy frogman, named Bob Cohn. The lean, muscular frogman shows off the large fish he's speared, indicating that it will serve as dinner for two—himself and a "babe" he's met at the Club. Paperman th... (read more)