Week 4, Post A

VoCaB

1.) Geode (78): a hollow concretionary or nodular stone often lined with crystals.
2.) Catalpas (145): Any of various, usually deciduous trees of the genus Catalpa, especially C. bignonioides or C. speciosa, native to the United States and having whorled, heart-shaped leaves, showy clusters of white flowers, and long, slender, cylindrical pods. Also called Indian bean.

Figurative Language

1.) Similie. "Now, wide-eyed, he watched the streamers, as beautiful and elusive as butterflies"(73). This quote is clearly a similie because it uses as but also, it compares the streamers to butterflies.
2.) Similie. "Ofter, still, her sense of loss stirred up, like flames out of embers"(75). This quote is another similie because it uses like and it compares her sense of loss because of phoebe to how it stirred up like flames.
3.) Metaphor. " Her new house was ablaze with lights in every window, upstairs and down, light pouring out liek something liquid, something that how overflowed and could no longer be contained"(86). This quote is a metaphor because it shows how Norah is feeling. Her new house may be better and nicer than the old one, but she felt more overwhelmed in it and out of control.

Quote

"Norah wanted to speak and set things in motion again. The right words hovered in her mind, but she could not seem to find her voice. She sat silently, and the silence became a lake, an ocean where they all might drown"(46). I feel like this quote really described Norah. She seems to always be thinking of something that means alot to her but she never speaks her mind. She is very undecided and cannot make up her mind at all.

Theme

From this quote, i think the theme is being in the background and not telling the whole truth or not saying anything at all. Norah and David have issues with eachother as well as how David does not tell anyone about Phoebe.