House Lights, Week 1, Post A

VOCAB

Mollify (4)- to soften in feeling or temper

Ecru (6)- light brown

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

“I loved these trees, with their mottled gray and yellow bark, their massive trunks and huge, spreading branches” (3). This is imagery because it appeals to the sense of sight with vivid details of the trees.

“In late autumn, they littered the ground with their seedpods-fat, bristly brown balls” (3). The words “bristly brown balls” is an alliteration because they all begin with the same letter, B!

“…a big, almost baggy face, freckled like a banana; a laugh like tires going slowly over gravel” (27).

QUOTE

“I had no point of orientation, no framework or instructions with which to approach the scene, and my life had not prepared me simply to be” (34). Beatrice is lost in her life, because she doesn’t know what she, herself thinks about situations anymore. Her thoughts are clouded and it is difficult for her to think quickly. Also, all of her life she has been focused on a distant thought or dream and hasn’t had the chance to truly live in the moment.

THEME

A theme emerging within the novel is that one should follow his dreams even though others may try to stop him. Beatrice’s parents don’t approve of her longing to be an actress and against their will she meets her grandmother, a famous actress past her glory days, from whom she learns many things.