Water for Elephants: Week 5, Post A

VOCAB:
1. sequester (205): to remove or separate.
2. amiably (213): friendly, sociable, agreeable

FIGURATIVE LANUGAGE:
1. “She clings to me as tightly as if I were keeping her from being sucked into a vortex” (215). This is a simile, because it uses the word “as” to compare something to another.
2. “’you’re sharp as a tack’” (217). This is also a simile because it uses “as” to compare something to another.
3. “Fate was smiling on us that day in June…” (231). This is a personification, because an object like fate cannot actually smile. This is giving a human characteristic to a non-human object.

QUOTE:
“That, or August has decided to keep his friends close and his enemies even closer” (213). This quote is significant because it explains the kind of relationship that Jacob and August have in this section. Jacob is not really too sure is August is really being nice, or if August is just ‘keeping his enemies closer’. This is important to Jacob because if he is on August’s good side, then he doesn’t want to ruin that. But if he is on August’s bad side, then he doesn’t want to do anything to make it worse.

THEME:
The overall theme of the book right now is that you have to respect everyone, even if they are ‘below’ you in social status, because you never know what they will do. Or, you don’t want to get on anyone’s bad side, like Jacob with August.