Q3 Post 2A

I'm reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

VOCABULARY
1. coxcomb (59)- a cap worn by jesters (noun)
2. leer (75)- to glance sideways with malicious intent (verb)

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
1. "'Leukemic,' I repeat. The word is runny, slippery, like the white of an egg" (33). This is a similie describing the word 'leukemic' as slippery and egg-like.
2. "For every nineteen degrees hotter a fire burns, in doubles in size. This is what I am thinking while I watch sparks shoot out of the incinerator chimney, a thousand new stars" (37). In this metaphor Anna's dad is comparing the sparks to stars because he is a firefighter but loves to study astronomy on the side.
3. "My throat closes like the shutter of a camera, so that any air or excuses must move through a tunnel as thin as a pin" (54). This is a double similie!!! Using 'like' it compares her throat closing to a camera and then it comapres the size of her throat to a pin using 'as'.

QUOTE
"It was an hour later when I finally arrived, and by then he was in high spirits, drinking scotch from the crystal cup he hjad won. 'Here comes your crew, Cam,' a friend called out. My father lifted the victory cup in salute, drank deeply, and then slammed it down so hard on the bar that its handle shattered. 'Oh,' said another sailor. 'That's a shame.' My father never took his eyes off me. 'Isn't it, though,' he said" (81). Campbell Alexander knows what it's like to dissapoint his parents and have them angry with him. This is how he and Anna relate.

THEME
An emerging theme in this book is family destruction; Anna's decision to take her parents to court for medical emancipation is tearing apart her family.