Week 2 Posts A/B

Post A

Vocab

contorted (53) - twisted

autonomy (61) - The right or power to govern oneself; self-determination.

Figurative language

1) "Blond hair was starting to burr from his recently shaved head-like the first tufts of silk from an ear of corn" (63). This is a metaphor because it is giving the reader a picture of what the image looks like and it compares it to corn in this specific example.

2) "Avery could tell Ponder was a few inches shorter than he was, and a little less broad in the shoulders. He guessed the Captain's age was somewhere north of fifty. But with his buzz-cut, salt-and-pepper-hair, and well tanned skin, he looked as vital as a man half his age, except for the fact that he was missing his right arm" (80). This is imagery because it is describing a character really in depth so you can imagine what the captain looks like.

3) "Return to your stations! Chur'R-Yar screeched, her patience exhausted on the Deacon. Leave it all behind. The shipmistress gave the switch an angry smack. Then, with a rasp of her tongue only she could hear: Soon we will find much, much more" (59). This is an example of foreshadowing which I've found there is a lot of. But this talks about some things that happen later on in the book.

Quote
"The meds took hold, and Avery sunk deep[into sleep]. And his mind's eye picture show continued to roll.... A hauler jack-knifed in a roadside ditch, smoke belching from its burning engine. An initial round of cheers from the other marines in a checkpoint tower, thinking Avery had just nailed an Innie bomber. Then the realization that their ARGUS units had malfunctioned-that the hauler's dead civilian driver had done nothing but pick up the wrong load" (61). I choose this quote because I think it represents how we all do bad things intentionally or unintentionally but that's beside the point, the point is we do those things and they never really leave us even if we try to push them out of our minds

Theme
The emerging theme is like the quote above. The theme is we do things we regret but we can't change those things. Then afterwards you think of what you could have done even though you know you couldn't have really done anything.
differently.

Post B

For post B this week I thought I would comment on a quote I found which I think is important. The quote is, "If you listened to the carefully packaged UNSC propaganda, Innies were all the same sort of bad apple: after two centuries of common cause, isolated groups of ungrateful colonists began to agitate for greater autonomy-for the freedom to act in their individual worlds' best interests, not those of the empire at large" (61). I think it would be interesting to see what people think about this quote. I mean either you agree that they should be able to do what they want or you believe in the larger picture that because the "empire" is protecting them they should have to follow the same rules as everybody else. Later on in this quote it talks about how a lot of people at first sympathized with them because they just wanted the best for their planet and family but then there were rising tensions because they started getting more violent and it led from a political battle to a actual violent physical encounter. So because of that I think that could change some people's views. Personally I think they don't have a right to go against the bigger form of government. I mean they are being protected and get food, supplies etc from this bigger form of government so what gives them this right to fight back. Especially since their now violent and killing innocent civilians they shouldn't have the right to do that stuff but once what do you guys think?