Week 3, Post A

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

VoCaB

1.) Reticence (27): disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
2.) Precariously (73): dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain.

FiGuRaTiVe LaNgUaGe

1.) Similie. "She traveled slowly backward in the softening darkness, the stilled traffic like a frozen river" (32). The author is comparing the stilled traffic to a frozen river therefor it is a similie.
2.) Similie. " Norah looked at her son's tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. He had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wristband, something that might easily slip off and disappear" (40). The author is comparing her son's new name and how it is similar to a wristband that could easily just slip away becuase it is so new.
3.) Imagery. "He left then, and everything was the same as it had been: the clock on the mantel, the square of light on the floor, the sharp shadows of bare branches"(66). I think that this quote is an imagery because it is descibing David's house and making it easy to think about during other descriptions.

QuOte

"Did he miss his twin, Norah wondered, that vanished presence, his short life's close companion? Would he always feel a sense of loss?"(44). I like this quote because it is representing how Paul, an infant who probably has no clue even though he has lived next to his sister for 9 monthes, yet Norah was feeling depressed because of her daughter and never really had that connection. Or, maybe she did have a largeg connection and just cannot live with the fact her daughter "died"?

Theme

I think a possible theme is grieving. Norah grives for her daughter and cannot stand the fact that her husband is not doing a thing.