Figurative language in my sisters keeper

A metaphor is a comparison between two non related things without using the words like or as.
"The room is a sea of dirty cloths and magazines and leftover Chinese take- out cartons" (14). 
"The saline pumps her up from the inside out, a baloon to be inflated" (70).
 "Her voice is a feather, a thread" (70).
"My apartment, it is a work of art." (75)
"I weave in and out of traffic, sewing up a scar." (93)


A simile is a comparison between two non related things using the words like or as.
 "it just clamps shut like the Jaws of Life." (9) 
"but it's hibernating under her skin like a bear, until it decides to roar again." (10)
 It comes out in a thick clump, like a small blizzard. (67)
 "It's like riding a bicycle."  (82).
 "He's asleep, curled like a braided rug to the left of my desk"  (117)

Keeper

                I am a keeper of my squishy. Her name is Maddie and she is the 2^nd most important person in my life right now. I got her back no matter what i'll kill for her. If she needs something I am there to help her. If she feels threatened I am by her side. If she is sad I am by her side. If she is happy I am by her side. Maddie is my squishy and nobody will mess with my squishy without hearing from me.  I’ll stand up for her forever and ever and nobody can tell me not to. That’s how it’s going to be. 

My sister's keeper

Two terrible books in a row???????? come on Mrs. Z whats up with poor book choices. We just read "into the wild" and that book was BORING!!!!! It was all about a dumb kid who got fed up with his parents and  walked to Alaska to eventually die. Now we get to read this book? it's bad enough watching chick flicks but now we have to read one?????? "My sister's keeper" is about a family with an older brother, who made a moonshine pump in his room, an older sister, who has leukemia, and a daughter, who was genetically made just too donate body fluids to her older sister. Sounds like a terrible book. To make the book even worse, the youngest daughter is suing her parents for custody of her own body. in other words she wants to be in control of her own self and not have to donate body parts to her sister. I have read the first chapter so far and already i'm not interested. Just looking at the cover made me turn away. on the cover is a girl laying against another girls book that has chick flick written all over this thing. Well can't say i'm excited for the rest of this book but don't really have a choice so lets get r done

Rocked by the wild, what a fool

Rocked by the wild, what a fool.

By: Birdman Jr.

                In this corner weighing in at less than a pound we have Wild potato seeds. In the other corner we have the 24 year old Chris McCandless. The victor, Swainsonine Poisoning. How many of you would lose a fight to the death to a nonmoving object? Chris McCandless did. Chris Walked into the wild in April of 1992 and died in August of 1992. McCandless couldn’t live out his journey in the wild for a single summer. McCandless’s journey, leaving home in 1990 and never being seen from his family again after that, has become well known and has gotten both criticism and praise. In my opinion Chris McCandless was an ill prepared, ungrateful, fool who never should have ventured away from home.

                McCandless was ungrateful and had no reason to put his parents through so much pain. “McCandless had been raised in upper middle-class environs of Annandale, Virginia. His father, Walt, is an eminent aerospace engineer who designed advanced radar systems for the space shuttle.”(Krakauer 19-20) McCandless had everything money, intelligent parents and a nice home. He left all of it so he could be happy? Chris had loving parents that where going to pay for a new car and law school for him he had no reason to blow them off and not even keep in touch or tell them where he was going. He didn’t even have the decency to say good bye. He truly was ungrateful of all he had.

                Chris wasn’t very smart and didn’t plan for emergencies. “But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map.”(Krakauer 174) Chris got rid of the only thing that could possibly save his life in emergencies that he owned. He practically said “nothing can touch me just try.” It is this negligence that fuels critics such as me to say that Chris doesn’t deserve all of the media and publicity. Chris may have been book smart but when it came to street smarts he was dumber than a two year old. He was completely and utterly foolish.

                Chris did not even listen to the advice of professional woodsmen. “By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential b many Alaskans.”(Krakauer 180) Chris was stubborn and had to do things his way. Even if it meant not listening to people who have done this before and at least take the right supplies. Chris had never done this before and chose his fate before even setting off. He pretty much committed suicide by not taking the right supplies. Chris underestimated old man wild. He ventured off too his almost certain death. McCandless was an ill prepared fool that ultimately got what was coming to him.

                Some people claim that McCandless just made a few mistakes and that’s why he died. “For most of the sixteen weak ordeal, Nevertheless, McCandless more than held his own. Indeed, were it not for one or two seemingly insignificant blunders, he would have walked out of the woods in august 1992 as anonymously as he had walked into them in April.” (Authors note page 2) However, I say that Chris made way too many mistakes and is death was inevitable. One of his many mistakes was walking into the wild without his map or a phone or anything that could have saved his life. Another mistake was not scouting the area. A third mistake was not excepting things that could have helped him from the many people who tried to offer him some. That’s three right there off the top of my head and I can go on. I’d say he made a whole lot more than one or two mistakes.

                Chris McCandless walked out and away from a great life into almost nothing. He went into the wild with no backup plan for emergencies. Also, he didn’t even have the right supplies. It’s no shocker that Chris died to me. In my opinion he kind of did it too himself he didn’t necessarily deserve it but he did get what was coming to him. Christopher McCandless was ill prepared, negligent and a fool; he doesn’t deserve the media or the piety that he received. My advice to all of my readers is, always be prepared and have an emergency plan. Don’t be ungrateful for what you have because in the end it’ll come back and “kill” you.

                

Chris McCandless WICKED AWESOME

Chapter 1, page 4	“Five feet seven or eight with a wiry build, he claimed to be 24 years old and said he was from South Dakota.  He explained that he wanted a ride as far as the edge of Denali National Park, where he intended to walk deep into the bush and ‘live off the land for a few month.’”	Chris is not physically fit for walking into such a dangerous environment.  He seems a little crazy.
Chapter 1, page 2-3	“He didn’t appear to be very old 18 maybe 19 at most. A rifle protruded from his back pack, but he looked friendly enough. A hitchhiker with a Remington semiautomatic isn’t the sort of thing that gives motorists pause in the forty-ninth state.”	Chris is a young and kind looking man. But his gun scares people. He seems a little sketchy to be hitchhiking.
Chapter 2, page 12	“S.O.S. I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone, this is no joke. In the name of god, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you Chris McCandless. August?”	Chris was ill prepared when he got stranded at the bus. He didn’t think of an escape route for this situation and for this he is dumb. But he did scavenge even when he was near death and he also left a note in case anyone came while he was gone and for this reason he is smart and courageous still trying to scavenge even when he is near death.
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Chapter 3, page 19-20	“McCandless had been raised in upper middle-class environs of Annandale, Virginia. His father, Walt, is an eminent aerospace engineer who designed advanced radar systems for the space shuttle.”	Chris was well off he had money, he lived in a good place, and his parents where successful. I don’t see why he would want to leave. He seems a little bit ungrateful to put his parents through this pain.
Chapter 3, page 20	“There were 8 children in his extended family: a younger sister, carine, with whom he was extremely close, and six half brothers and sisters from Walt’s first marriage.”	Chris had to compete for his parents love and he must have felt neglected.
Chapter 4, page 28	“McCandless tried to start the car thereafter, the engine wouldn’t catch, and in his impatience he drained the battery”	Chris was easily frustrated and impatient. Two things that won’t help him in his Alaskan voyage.
Chapter 4, page 31	“In uncharacteristic lapse, Chris gave his parents’ address when the arresting officer demanded to know his permanent place of residence. The un paid ticket appeared in Walt and Billie’s mailbox at the end of August.”	Chris had moments of stupidity where he did not think things through. Or he thought them through well and they came off as stupid. He could have just wanted his parents to pay the ticket instead of him.
Chapter 5, page 39	“McCandless stopped moving for more than two months- probably the longest he stayed in one place from the time he left Atlanta till he went to Alaska.”	Chris doesn’t like to stay in one place he gets itchy feet and leaves before he gets too attached until now. It’s a mystery why he wants to stay in Alaska.
Chapter 5, page 40	“Frankly, I was surprised he even got hired,” “he could do the job- he cooked in the back- but he always worked at the same slow pace, even during the lunch rush, no matter how much you’d get on him to hurry up.”	Chris Didn’t want anybody telling him what to do. He would get the job done but he would work at his speed and you would just have to deal with it.
Chapter 6, page 55	McCandless, uncomfortable with the request, dodged the question: “well talk about it when I get back from Alaska, Ron”	Chris didn’t want to be disrespectful of mean so he was cleaver and came up with a response.
Chapter 6, page 54	“Franz had purchased a video camera before the trip, and he paused now and the along the way to record the sights, although McCandless usually ducked away whenever Franz pointed the lens in his direction”	Chris was either shy or secretive and didn’t want anybody to see where he was at what time.
Chapter 7, page 62	“during those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle”	Chris was a hard worker and was not afraid to get down and dirty. This will help in Alaska a lot.
Chapter 7, page 64	“Both father and son where stubborn and high-strung. Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.”	Chris was strong in the mind. He would not give in once he was set off. Chris had a way of life and he was going to stick to it. Being independent is good for Alaska because he doesn’t have any body with him.
Chapter 10, page 101	“EXEMPT EXEMPT EXEMPT EXEMPT and given his name as iris fucyu. Address None of your damn business. Social security number I forget.”	Chris didn’t like the system. Makes for a good reason to go to Alaska. He seemed to dislike the government.
Chapter 10, page 101-102	“ His hair was long, and he had a beard. Chris almost always had short hair and was cleanly shaven. And the face in the picture was extremely gaunt.”	Chris kept himself well groomed. He didn’t like being raggedy. But when he went to Alaska he felt free and without care so he let himself go.
Chapter 11, page 106-107	When Chris scored high on his placement test and then spent a week getting himself out of it.	Chris was very smart but didn’t want to put his time into the school work. It seems as though Chris is a tad bit lazy.
Chapter 11, page 109	When Chris and his dad went on the hiking trip and reached the 13,000ft elevation and Walt wanted to turn around but Chris wanted to carry on but they still turned around.	Chris seems adventurous and brave. He isn’t scared of a challenge he wants to take it head on.
Chapter 12, page 118-119	“If you attempted to talk him out of something, he wouldn’t argue. He’d just nod politely and ten do exactly what he wanted.”	Chris was a stubborn kid. He did things his way no matter what.
Chapter 12, page 119	“his grades were nearly perfect. He started writing for the newspaper. He even talked enthusiastically about going on and getting his law degree.”	Chris was smart and well driven. He had the smarts to do anything he wanted and he was involved in activities.
Chapter 13, page 128	“Chris stares at the lens with the same pensive, recalcitrant squint, as if he’d been interrupted in the middle of an important thought and was annoyed to be wasting his time in front of the camera.”	Chris doesn’t like to have pictures of him. He seems to be shy in front of the camera.
Chapter 13, page 128	“Chris was crazy about buck. That summer he disappeared he wanted to take buck with him.”	Chris was compassionate and had a loving side. He didn’t plan on not returning to Buck.
Chapter 16, page 162	“The heaviest item in McCandles’s backpack was his library: 9 or 10 paperback books.”	Chris was intellectual and was book smart however book smarts don’t help as much as street smarts in the wild.
Chapter 16, page 167	“I now wish I had never shot the moose. One of the greatest tragedies of my life.”	Chris cared a lot about nature. He wouldn’t want to waste anything he had and did not want to take ore then he needed he was very passionate about nature.
Chapter 17, page 174	“ But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map.”	Chris did not have an emergency plan. He was ill prepared for when things got the worst he needed some common sense.
Chapter 17, page 180	“By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential b many Alaskans.”	McCandless didn’t use his head. He thought he could depend on nature to keep him alive and was incredibly naïve.
Chapter 18, page 195	“Day 100 made it but in weakest condition of life. Death looms as serious threat.”	McCandless was not prepared and didn’t have an escape plan or emergency plan so he set himself up to die.
Chapter 18, page 198	“Chris would not intentionally burn down a forest not even to save his own life.	Chris was too soft and caring about nature and couldn’t use his one chance at survival in a way he chose to die.