Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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The conclusion of the book was very heart warming nad touching. After her disasterous trip to the big city of new richmond Jane and grandpa go home to celebrate Christmas. Jane has no gift to giver hermother but she takes a frather she found and weaves it into a basket as her old grandfather has taught her. On chistmas Jane presents the gift and her mom loves it!! But instead of feeling relieved jane breaks down and spils the beans that she had planned on giving her mother this wonderful gold bracelet from the fancy store in the big city. Her mother is touched by the offer but insist that she loves the basket evern more because she made it herself with love in every stitch. Janes mother takes her to thefamily trunk. She shows her pictures things of her fathers and all sotrs of heirlooms. They all start ti cry. When she re-enters the room with grandpa in, he tells her of her gift. A trust fund! Grandpa says that before her daddy died he had put away a lot of extra money so that jane could go to college . Janes Christmas gift was better than she had ever expected. It was more than she could’ve ever wished for! She had her daddy back. That nigh jane ery goes to the forest. There she sees a flock of swans swooping thrught the Christmas night. She knows her daddy will all ways be with her financially and in spirit.
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vocab-
swoony (134)- n/a could not find meaning.
wonderment(138)-Noun. wondering or a wonder.
"That steams from groundhogs making coffee." (129) This is an example of personification because it takes an action that humans do, and lets groundhogs do it to create a thing of nature. I think this use of personification works because it still uses that cheesey style of southern-ish talking that has run through the entire book.
"Tears burned my eyes like i was peeling ramps.: (119) This is an example of a metaphor because it uses like to compare to things. In this case the two things being compared are similar but are not ocurring. She is crying so hard with burning sensation of peeling onions.
"The cries mingled with a rush of wingbeats, like a host of angels." This is an example of a meataphor beauce is compairng to differnet things in this case it is comparing the sad noises she is hearing to the rush of angles wings flapping about. This methaphor is nice for two reasons. One because it gives us a little spurt of spirituality and the other it uses the word mingled and thats a great verb.
""If we all touch hands we can get this done'" (170) I like this quote a lot and heres why.
1)I strongly believe in team work
2) I loved that dad in the story even though he was dead
3) he makes more sense then gpaps
swoony (134)- n/a could not find meaning.
wonderment(138)-Noun. wondering or a wonder.
"That steams from groundhogs making coffee." (129) This is an example of personification because it takes an action that humans do, and lets groundhogs do it to create a thing of nature. I think this use of personification works because it still uses that cheesey style of southern-ish talking that has run through the entire book.
"Tears burned my eyes like i was peeling ramps.: (119) This is an example of a metaphor because it uses like to compare to things. In this case the two things being compared are similar but are not ocurring. She is crying so hard with burning sensation of peeling onions.
"The cries mingled with a rush of wingbeats, like a host of angels." This is an example of a meataphor beauce is compairng to differnet things in this case it is comparing the sad noises she is hearing to the rush of angles wings flapping about. This methaphor is nice for two reasons. One because it gives us a little spurt of spirituality and the other it uses the word mingled and thats a great verb.
""If we all touch hands we can get this done'" (170) I like this quote a lot and heres why.
1)I strongly believe in team work
2) I loved that dad in the story even though he was dead
3) he makes more sense then gpaps
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