A Northern Light, Week 6-Post A

VOCAB

Icosahedron (242): a solid figure having 20 faces.

Surrey (243): a light, four-wheeled, two-seated carriage, with or without a top, for four persons.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

1.) “I blew on my finger like it was a pistol stock” (248). This is a simile because it uses ‘like’ to compare her finger to a pistol.
2.) “She flitted and hid prettily amongst her words like a butterfly in a garden” (266). This is a simile because it uses ‘like’ to compare her to a butterfly.
3.) “They screwed up their tiny faces and opened their little pink mouths like two screeching baby birds” (271). This is s simile because it uses ‘like’ to compare the babies to birds.

QUOTE

“I wanted to see if maybe she could help me figure a way to both be married to Royal and still be a writer, to be two things at once—like one of those fancy coats they have in the Sears and Roebuck catalog that you can change into a whole different coat just by turning it inside out”(270). This quote shows how Mattie still wants to be a writer, but is torn whether or not it is worth giving up Royal. I also think it is not only herself wanting Royal, I think that her family and friends are putting pressure on her to settle down and get married rather that going off to college.

THEME

A theme is giving up. Mattie has seemed to have given up on the dream to go to college, and is set on the idea of marrying Royal. She does not want to be lonely and decides if she did go to college she probably wouldn’t end up marrying Royal. Also, several times, Mattie almost gives up on working at The Glenmore even though she really needs the money.