Q3 Post 7A

I just finished reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and am a bit upset about the ending.

VOCABULARY
1. kilter (380)- good condition (n)
2. proof (388)- the alcoholic strength of a liquor, a number that is twice the percentage of the volume of alcohol present (n).

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
1. "'My hair has its own zip code'"(384). This is a hyperbole exaggerating the size of Julia's hair.
2. "The truck made out better; the smaller BMW is literally bent like a smile around its front end,"(413). Brian is comparing the shape of the car wreck to a smile. I find this comaprison ironic because a car wreck is anything but happy.
3. "I traced the geography of his face: from the cliff of his cheekbone to the whirlpool of his ear to the laugh lines ravined beside his mouth"(370). This is a metaphor where Julia compares Campbell's face to geographical land features.

QUOTE
"I look down at my skirt, pick at a thread. Just maybe I will unravel the whole thing"(376). Even though Anna is talking about her skirt, this is a metaphor for her testimony. I like it and find it very clever. This is the turning point in the court case when Anna decides to tell everyone the truth, that Kate asked her to file the petition.

THEME
A theme in this novel is the unexpected; I had no idea that Anna was going to die in a car crash and end up donating the kidney in the end and that Kate would almost fully regain her health.