Crisis by Robin Cooka medical thriller!
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Vocabulary
1. mucosal (p.69): adj.-Pertaining to a mucous membrane.
2. renovating (p.71): v.-to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair ,to reinvigorate; refresh; revive.
Figurative Language
1. Satire: "Wedding plans over the autopsy table, and now haerth-and-home issues over the intestinal sink. Don't you think this might not be the best place for this discussion?" (p. 70)
-Jack was making sarcastic about his fiancee's talking about wedding plans during the autopsy.
2. Imagery: "Instead, he saw a stranger approach. The man was a handsome African America, quick-moving, intelligent-appearing, and approximately Craig-s age." (p. 50)
-it describes a person's looking; by Craig.
3. Metaphor: "This woman was a walkin time bomb waitin to explode." (p. 68)
-Jack decribes the dead woman as a bomb; which is not really a "bomb," but then it signifies how much she was in a serious situation.
Quote
"No Problem, Dr. Stapleton. But I have to tell you from experience that gettin married changes everything." (p. 71)
Explanation: It was said by Miguel, an assistant of Jack, who talks about marriage after he hears about Jack's marriage.
Sentence: Changes are all around us.
How it relates to the Theme
The life always changes. It is a basket that is fulfilled with the possibility of all other kinds of happenings. There are several big changes in people's lives. They would be school, occupation, marriage, child, and death. Of course there would be many other factors that would affect in different ways, but these main factors are the ones that changes the environments and the relationships between people.
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