Water For Elephants Week 2, Post A

VOCAB:
scuttle (51): a short, hurried run
maniacally (53): Characterized by excessive enthusiasm or excitement

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:
“Falling back like a disgraced puppy” (53): this is a simile describing Camel when he tries to talk to Uncle Al. It uses the word “like” so is therefore a simile, describing something.
“Swallowed whole by people, horses, and wagons” (53): this is a personification because it gives human characteristics to some non-human objects and things.
“I’m blubbering like the ancient fool” (64): this is also a simile because it uses the word “like” to describe what he was doing.

QUOTE:
“ You want to drug me. You want to turn me into a jell-o eating sheep.” (69). This quote is talking about how Jacob doesn’t want to take a certain depression pill, because he doesn’t want to turn into one of the patients that eats Jell-O like a sheep that follows the flock and doesn’t do their own thing.

THEME:
This theme of this book in these three chapters was that you can’t let yourself become a sheep in old age. You can’t lose your individualism. Because once you’ve lost that, there is nothing else to life.