Week 6, Post A

Nineteen Minutes

Vocab

1.) Reviled(250): to speak abusively.
2.) Canonized(250): to glorify.

Figurative Language
1.) Metaphor. "This mother's pain seemed to take up all the empty space in the gallery;heat the emotions of the other spectectors to a boiling point"(263). THis is a metaphor because someone's pain cannot actually take up empty space, but it may seem like that could happen.
2.) Metaphor. "She continues reading the charges in a courtroom so quiet you coudl hear hearts break; you could hear hope fluttering to the rafter on the ceiling"(263). Similar to the previous quote, hope cannot actually flutter to the ceiling, but it may seem that way in a situation like that.
3.) Metaphor. "Josie was two feet away from her, but they might as well have been on different continents"(265). Similar to the two previous quotes, this is also a metaphor because it may have felt like Josie was far away, but actually she was right next to Alex.

Quote
"How could Alex describe what it had felt like, seeing all of those nameless mothers and fathers in the gallery, without a child between them?What if you'd just been stupid enough to let her slip away?"(265). This quote is very similar to many other in how alex feels about her relationship with her daughter. She feels she is losing Josie, when other parents have actually lost their children to a tragic death. I think, Alex needs to put herself in Josie's shoes and understand what Josie is feeling in order to grasp her before she is lost.

Theme
A very large theme in this novel is how well you know you children. Alex thinks she knows her daughter but she is actually losing her. Lacy thought she knew Peter until he brought a gun into school.