Week 5, Post A

Vocab

1.) Gregarious(145): fond of the company of others; sociable.
2.) Hostile (146): of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an enemy.

Fig Lang

1.) Similie. "A film closed over the past as she spoke, a barrier as brittle and fragile as ice forming"(88). This quote is a similie because it compares her past closing to ice forming.
2.) Imagery. " Norah was ahead of him, moving like light, flashes of white and denim amid the trees: there, and then gone"(106). This quote is clearly a similie, but i also thought it could be classified as imagery because it is describing where norah was in the forest.
3.) Imagery. "The sun forever in the sky and the dry leaves moving under his feet"(118). This is another imagery because it is describing how that day in the forest was for David so that the reader could imagine it.

Quote

"Paul would not grow up as David had, suffering the loss of his sister. He would not be forced to fend for himself because his sister couldn't"(113).
This quote is very ironic to the whole novel. David lost his sister when he was younger to heart failure and that was why he decided to give his daughter away. He could not have to deal with the grief of going through that period in his life again and he did not want to put Paul through it.

Theme

A very important theme is grief and selfishness. Grief because amny characters are put through grief in this novel but do not back down. Another aspect is selfishness because firstly, David is very selfish and does not want to go through that horrible time again with his daughter so he gave her away without anyone's consent.