Q3 Week 7 Posts A/B

Vocab
Arduous (449) - characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion

Delirium (360) - craze: state of violent mental agitation

Figurative Language
1) "It was Tick who'd made the request to hire that hopeless, bedraggled boy, but it was his mother, no doubt, who'd whispered in his ear when his instincts had argued against doing so" (200). This is a form of description and i's showing what type of character Tick has through her actions.

2) "His father wasn't too bad a driver when he was sober, but of course he wouldn't be sober until their money ran out" (341). This also describes Max who is Mile's father and the things he constantly does with the figurative language.

3) "Janine was still shaking when she got back in behind the wheel. What she needed to do was to catch up with her daughter and make this right, by force if necessary, set it all right, somehow, some way, she didn't yet know how, but by the time she pulled out onto Empire Avenue again her daughter had disappeared[...]" (421). This shows foreshadowing and also it's a type of description. This was one of the more important events in the book and this quote really exemplified that.

Quote
"Maybe, like children, we assume ourselves to be of central importance, and we're not. Maybe the inequities that consume us here on earth aren't really the issue" (200). I don't really know how to word it but I thought this quote was interesting. It kind of explains how some people act and that maybe it's all for nothing. But nonetheless I thought it was interesting.

Theme
The theme really seemed to be to stick to something even if it's really hard. There were many themes in this book but this one really stood out. Whether it was working at the Empire Grill or Mile's being polite to his dad. This theme seemed to emerge throughout.

Post B
For this last post I thought I would just talk about what I thought overall of the book. The book was really eloquently written with the description and the interactions between the characters. The characters always interacted just like you would with a friend or with somebody you didn't particularly like. With this type of writing it made the book a lot more "real". Also the prologue talked about C.B Whiting which was really straight forward and so I thought the book would be about him. But in actuality it went into the story of Miles Roby and his events happen 20 + years after Whitings. So this kind of caught me off guard at first but it was interesting. Then in the actual story there were a ton of different events and actions that happened and it was kind of hard to keep track of. The ending too wasn't really an ending to me. But the epilogue was really straight forward and seemed to tie up all the loose ends and it even went back to C.B Whiting and what happened concerning his problem.