Quarter 2 Post 4A

VOCABULARY
1. emaciated (52)- (v.) to have been made extremely thin by starvation
2. palpable (53)- (adj.) obvious, plainly seen

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
1. "So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and peices that looked like a whole" (49). This sentence is suppossed to be referring to Annabel's house, but in the paragraph before she had been tlking about how her family looked so perfect from the outside, so this is a metaphor comparing her house to her family.
2. "Her eyes looked sunken in her face, and you could see all the tendons in her neck, moving like puppet strings whenever she turned her head" (52). This is an example of imagery because it is very descriptive, yet it also has a similie comparing puppet strings to her neck tendons.
3. "As she shifted again, though, I saw it, the one thing that would stick with me forever: the sharpness of her shoulder blades as they rose out of her skin, looking like the wings of a dead baby bird I'd once found in our backyard, hairless and barely born, already broken" (57). This is a similie comparing Whitney's anorexic shoulder blades to the broken wings of a baby bird.

QUOTE
"But still, my mother didn't go. This was the biggest mystery, the one thing, that looking back, I could never quite figure out. For whatever reason, she chose to believe Whitney. It was a mistake" (52). Annabel thinks that if her mom had flewn out to New York and followed Kirsten's warning about Whitney, then everything would have been different.

THEME
A theme in this novel is family dysfunction and repair; Whitney and Kirsten destroy their happy family and now they are both reinventing themselves.