ENG (02/13/08) Posting A

The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly

Posting A

2 vacabulary words:

1. immersing (immerse) (p.4): –verb (used with object),
to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
to involve deeply; absorb: She is totally immersed in her law practice.
to baptize by immersion.
to embed; bury.

2. crumpets (p.11): –noun
A small flat round of bread, baked on a griddle and usually served toasted.

3 examples of figurative langues

1. simile: "They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song ladi out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being." (p.3)
-it describes the stories and how they come alive.

2. ironic: "If he bumped his head against something, eh would bump it a second time to keep the numbers even, and sometimes he would ahve to do it again and again because his head seemed to bounce against the wall, ruining his count," (p.2)
-he is acting best as possible, to prevent his mom from dying, although his plans are pretty weird, in a sense that it isn't related at all; all it does it hurting him more.

3. personification: "Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling." (p.3)
-David tells that the stories are coming true as if it has lives in them.

Quotation
"he had, in truth, been losing her for a very lon time. The disease that was killing her was a creepi, cowardly thing, a sickness that ate away a her from the inside, slowly consuming the light within, so that her eyes grew a little less bright with each passing day, and her skin a little more pale." (p. 1)

Explanation
this sentences offers the descriptions of David's dying mother. This significantly affects David later, as soon as he figures out that he is alone and that he won't be able to see his mother again, ever.

Theme
Nothing lasts forever, not enough, not long to have even the memory of the dead ones. What is the life? Do we really have a choice? Or is it that we follow whatever pathways that we already have assigned? Sometimes we tend to follow the offroutes, but who knows if it has been predestined? As if we were compelled, we follow what others had comanded us to follow, but eventually what is left is for me, and it is nothing like others, but it is the responsibility that I have to carry until the last of my life...