Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Here It Goes Again [Post A, Week 1]

VOCABULARY:
transient (Hornbacher, 16): lasting only a short time

amorphous (Hornbacher, 33): formless, having no specific shape


FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:
(1) "They weres stuffed into their second-best suits and dresses...which itched at the armpits and high collars."(Hornbacher, 8)
My 7th grade ELA techer always told me that an author successfully uses figurative language when you can acutally picture what the author really wants you to see. In this paragraph, they are sitting in a church. This is an image that my mind clearly depicts, and she ues a good adjective when she says that they were ""stuffed" into their suits and dresses.

(2) "The fields were lit up by the high, white moon, glistening like an eyeball in the sky." (Hornbacher, 12)
I know that this figurative language because she is comparing the moon with an eyeball using the word "like", and that is a similie, which is figurative language.

(3) "He scrambled to his feet and ran off into the dark like a frightened deer." (Hornbacher, 14)
This too is a similie because of the use of "like" in the comparison of the boy to a frightened deer.

SIGNIFICANT QUOTE:
"They always told this story at funeral parties, It was the best dead-person storiy they had, so they told it again and again." (Hornbacher, 10)
This quote is significant because so far, from what I know, death is a theme in this book, and rediscovering hope. The family seems to go to a lot of funerals for their elderly friends. There hasn't been an immediate family member's death so far, but I'm sure how funeral parties go in this tiny town is going to be a reoccuring theme.

THEME...SO FAR...
I think the theme so far is similar of that to "All My Sons" because of death, and how a family grieves, and how each person moves on and have different ideas of how far (to move on) is okay.

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