Water for Elephants: Week 6, Post A

VOCAB: 1. Surreptitiously (276): acting in a stealthy way
2. solicitous (262): mindful, regardful, attentive

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:
1. "His voice drips with sarcasm" (277). This is a personification, because it's giving human characteristics to a nonhuman object: Kinko's voice.
2. "That sure sounds like Camel" (240). This is a simile, because it's comparing two objects with one another using the words like or as to compare them.
3. "August stares at her, as though he's simply awakened and found himself here" (246). This is also a simile, because it uses the word "as" to compare two objects.

QUOTE: "I'm afraid to breathe incase I break the spell" (273). This is a significant quote in this section because it is just after Marlena and Jacob realize that they are in love with each other. They are in love, and this quote means that Jacob doesn't want to do the smallest thing that might break their love or ruin it forever, because that is the only thing that both of them want at the moment.

THEME: The theme of the book in this section is that one has to appreciate every moment of your life, because you don't ever know when that moment may end or when it may never happen to you again. This goes hand in hand with the expression "live every minute to the fullest."