Week 1 - Post A

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

VOCAB

1.) Eddies (3): a small whirlpool.
2.) Aberration (7): the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course.

Figurative Language

1.) Imagery. "A few flakes first, in the dull gray late-afternoon sky, and then wind-driven swirls and eddies around the edges of their wide front porch"(3). This quote is imagery because it is describing what the scene looks like and it gives an image to reader about what is going on.
2.) Metaphor. "He read well past midnight, until the words shimmered senselessly on the bright white pages"(8). This is a metaphor because words do not actually shimmer on the pages, but the author is using it to describe what it felt like.
3.) Similie. "When he turned off the lights, shards of fire glowed softly through layers of ash as delicate and white as the snow piled so high now on the porch railings"(8). This is a similie because it uses as and compares the fire and the white snow.

Quote

"It was a moment when all the disparate shards of his life seemed to knit themselves together, every past sadness and disappointment, every anxious secret and uncertainty hidden now beneath the soft white layers"(9).
I like this quote because Dr. Henry is recounting everything that has happened in his life before he married his wife and how now they seem to come together. Now all his bad memories have been changed or hidden and he has moved on.

Theme

So far, the theme in this novel is living with what you have. Dr. Henry's wife had to give birth in not a regular hospital because of the snow storm and it shows that anything is possible.