Week 6, Post A

Vocab

1.) cadences(154): The measure or beat of movement, as in dancing or marching.
2.) lentils (158): The round, flattened seed of this plant.

Fig Land

1.) Similie. "The machine sat in the driveway, as incongruous and odd as a steel-blue pig"(136). This is a similie because it uses as and compared the machine to a pig.
2.) Similie. "These days they were like two planets in orbit around the same sun, not colliding but not drawing any closer either"(142). This quote compared Norah and David's relationship to two orbits: far away and distant from eachother.
3.) Similie. "A simple encounter, yet he felt strangely agitated, exposed and vulnerable, like past rising up like the sea"(148). This quote is describing how David felt, just like a sea, and never knowing what wouuld happen.

Quote

"He'd thrown the photos out, negatives and all, but still they haunted him. He was afraid they always would. He had lied after all; he had given away their daughter. That terrible consequences would follow seemed both inevitable and just"(108).
This quote is all about things coming back to haunt you. David knows what he did was wrong and now he has to suffer the consequences of never knowing when Norah might be sad or angry. What he did will always stay with him and haunt him for the rest of his life.

Theme

One theme is doing something you regret doing and being haunted for it the rest of your life.