Similes and Matephors

Anna

Metaphors-

1.) "Pawn shops may be full full of junk, but they're also a breeding ground for stories, if you ask me, not that you did." -Page 8

2.) " My mother would be beautiful, if she were parachuted into some else's life." 

Similes-

1.)  "-my hand clamps shut like the Jaws of Life." -Page 9

2.) "You know how most little kids think they're like cartoons-" -Page 9

Campbell 

Similes- 

1.) "When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail." -Page 20

2.) " You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake?"- Page 21

Metaphors-

1.) "an heir and a spare."-Page 22

2.) "My backward name." -Page 24

Sara

Metaphors-

1.) "This is the language of a marriage: Morse code, punctuated by baths and dinners and stories before bed." -Page 27

2.) "Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."

Similes-

1.) "I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer." -Page 27

2.) "trailing her spine, like a line of small blue jewels, are a string of bruises." -page 29

Brian

Metaphors-
1.) "This is what I'm thinking while I watch sparks shoot out of the incinerator chimney, a thousand new stars." -Page 37
2.) "it is the biggest mistake rookies make: the assumption that fighting a fire means rushing in with a stream of water."
Similes-
1.) "Out of the blue I remember when the kids were little, crammed into the back of the car like cigars..." -Page 39
2.) " It almost seems like a cheat that after all these years of defying the odds, it won't be the luekemia that kills her." -Page 43



Anna
Metaphors-
1.) "When she is tied to her bed, I am her eyes and ears." -Page 49\
2.) "He's got the whole hospital being turned inside out" Page 53
Similes-
1.) "The last thing I see as I run out of the room is my mother pushing the nurse's call button over and over, as if it's trigger to a bomb." -Page 52
2.) ...and give me a maid that smelled like fresh sheets, and my own Bernese mountain dog, and a private phone line." -Page 49




Sarah

Similes-
1.) "He is talking about my little girl as if she were some kind of machine; a car with a faulty carbuetor, a plane whose landing gear is stuck." -Page 66
2.) "It comes out in a thick clump, drifts down to the carpet like a small blizzard" -Page 67
Metaphors-
1.) "if you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching." -Page 65
2.) " It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's." -Page 67

Am I someone's keeper?

I think of myself as my cousins keeper. I have watched her grow up and I have made a great effort to make sure she doesn't get into any trouble. If I find out she has does something bad I will call her and talk about it with her. I tell her why it is wrong and why she shouldn't do it again and what could happen next time and all of that kind of stuff. She usually cooperates and says she is sorry. She is a really good kid though so she usually doesn't do bad thing, and if she does I'm usually the first person she talks to about it. In a way I do think of being her keeper.

Jodi Picoult

My Sisters Keeper- First Blog Post

Author
Picoult is a very smart and studious woman who techinically started writing when she was five. She is currently 46 and she has written and published 21 books. She graduated from Princeton, where she studied creative writing and published 2 books in a magazine. One of which being Songs of the Humpback Whale. She is known as an author who writes mainly about fiction. She is married with 3 children.
Story
This story is about a girl named Anna who was born to give her sister blood, marrow, and other kinds of things to her sister who has cancer. When she is told she has to give her kidney to her sister she sues her family in order for rights to be able to control what happens to her.