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