Week 2, Post A

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Vocab

1.) Poultices (23): A soft moist mass of bread, meal, clay, or other adhesive substance, usually heated, spread on cloth, and applied to warm, moisten, or stimulate an aching or inflamed part of the body.
2.) Macabre (44): gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.

Figurative Language

1.) Similie. "She gestured to the house, veiled with snow and glowing like a lantern in the darkness of the street"(11). I feel that this is a similie because it uses like to compare the house and the lantern. Also this is an imagery because it describes the street and gives an image.
2.) Metaphor. "Since she had agreed to Dr. Henry's astonishing request, Caroline had felt as if she were falling through the air in slow motion, waiting to hit land and discover where she was"(22). This is a metaphor because it describes how Caroline has been feeling metaphorically.
3.) Similie. " Caroline drove fast once she reached the interstate, fatique sluicing through her body like water down rock"(31). This quote is describing how caroline's body felt like after she was driving fast.

Quote

"Yet he had sent her to this place with his infant daughter, this place where a woman had sat on the edge of a bed, her hair drifting into soft piles on the harsh cold light of the floor"(39). Caroline is puzzeled because David had seemed like a great guy: being a doctor, helping others for free but he does not want his own daughter who appears to have downsyndrome. She does not understand how she could have possibly liked him, so she decides to take the baby.

Theme

So far, i think the theme is lying to get the better way off. David lied to Norah about the baby which is causing her distress and pain. Also, i predict that that lie will come back and haunt him.