Week 1 Post A

Vocab

sunder (36) - break apart or in two, using violence

kinesthetic (33) - refers to the ability of the body's sensory organs in the muscles, tendons, and joints to respond to stimuli

Figurative Language

1) "lukewarm gusts that hammered up the east-west blocks of tumbledown gray-stone apartments, scattering the Autumn leaves of the sidewalk maples" (38). This shows imagery because you can picture this scene almost perfectly with the warm climate and the apartments with the sidewalk having the maples and combining everything with the season being Autumn.

2) "The rift remained open after the freighter disappeared, in its shimmering edges warping around the surrounding stars..." (36). This is a metaphor because the rift didn't literally do the warping around the stars but that what it looked like so it shows a metaphor.

3) "Memories had a habit of coming back, and this was a scene he would rather not revisit" (15). I'm pretty sure foreshadowing is figurative language and this is exactly what that is. You find out later in some events he's in that they were related to this quote so it shows foreshadowing.

Quote
"But they all served the same purpose: it was easier to kill another human being when you didn't think of them as human" (11). I thought this was a really powerful and important quote so that's why I chose it. Even though this book is futuristic etc.. this quote still applies to our world even today.

Theme
The theme connects to my quote in the sense of war. What I mean by this is on a campaign mission Avery is trying to hunt down this group of Insurgents and it leads him to this restaurant. Now I don't want to give too much away but things turn out for the worst and months later Avery still thinks about the way things could of been, all the lives he could have saved. So this is the theme of take chances so you don't regret the choice you make later on referring to All My Sons for example.