A Northern Light, Week 4- Post A

VOCAB

Bateau(149): Chiefly Canadian and Southern U.S.. a small, flat-bottomed rowboat used on rivers

Peavey(159): a cant hook with a sharply pointed end, used in handling logs.


FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

1.) “She was making a terrible noise, bellowing like someone had cut off all four of her legs” (116-117). This is a simile because it uses ‘like’ to compare two things.
2.) “He was huge and fearsome and as black as midnight, and he was watching us” (118). This is a simile because it uses ‘as’ to describe his color, and midnight.
3.) “Memories tangled in the curtains” (134-135). This is personification because it says “memories are tangled”, when memories physically can’t be tangled.

QUOTE

“He’d be furious, but only because he was loosing a pair of hands. He wouldn’t miss me one bit, but that was all right. I wouldn’t miss him either.” (159). I think this quote shows how bad mentally and physically Mattie’s father is bad to her. He father whips her when she is bad, which she obviously doesn’t like, but he is also hard on her when it comes to taking care of the family and going to school. I think her dad would just be mad at her for leaving, not sad.

THEME

An emerging theme is hope. With Mrs. Wilcox trying to convince Mattie’s father to let her go, and her Uncle Fifty promising her money, it seems that Mattie may have chance at go to New York.