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Update 5:

New words:

Ostentatiously
Alarmingly
Fidgety
Undisguised

Devices:
1. I took down that blue over night bad she`d given me for my birthday a thousand years age. (hyperbole)
2. It is a warm world, I thought. It is a warm world and I have been lucky to live in it. (Alliteration)
3. I used to think, when we arrived at this point in the trip, let me live here. When my knees are old, let me come here to die. Let me vanish one ward night into the sea. Vanish without a trace.(Alliteration)

Image:

“People drifting by on the street, a car, a pair of bicycles, a wobbly man with long hair looking at his feet with great determination. Music suddenly rose up from inside the bar. A Portuguese folk song, a woman`s clear lament; and with it I experienced a surprisingly persuasive second gust, an updraft from the rum, and I thought, I’m happy. I always thought it would be worse, more operatic. But it isn`t. it is, under this round moon, rather sweet in the end.”


Roman refreshed himself and decided to leave and go to Caribbean. He went to the town; the driver told him the allusion about “A perfect night to go to China.” Roman felt relaxed about everything he met on his road. He met Raymond (the cop) again, after that he got on to a boat and took some Morphine peacefully. He dreamed a lot and after he awake few times. Last time he felt asleep, and he found Simon and his mom`s little house. He went in.

Update 4:

New words:

Glamorous
Rupture
Irritation

Image:

“They`ll get sleepy now, leave him in a backyard, take him to the wrong park. They`ll be used to him now, his talkativeness in the morning, his strange staring into the middle distance; they`ll know what he likes to eat, what he likes to watch on television. I thought, if he`s stopped asking for his parents, it`s not because he`s stopped missing them, it`s because he knows there`s no point in asking. I thought, he`s a bright boy, he`ll know to lie still and wait. If God wants me to believe in him, he will lead me to my son. If he doesn`t, fuck him. Fuck him and I will have solved the great mystery of religion. But I don’t need to solve the great mystery of religion. Don`t be discouraged, I`ll find you.”

Devices:
1. Just because you`re an asshole doesn`t mean the camera doesn`t like your face. (metaphor)
2. How flat sunlight can be. How disappointing. (Anaphora)
3. I suddenly imagined winter, imagined the dying snow, the hard light, the short days, the bundled faces, the interminable trudging forward. (climactic)


Roman quits his job and when he talked to M. he cried. He becomes a wastrel, throwing money here and there. There is no goal anymore in his life. he went to rob the bank and takes Morphine every day. He dreams Simon every time after he taking the pills.

Update 3:

New words:
Threadbare---repeated too often; over familiar through overuse
Accusatory---containing or expressing accusation
Prevailing--- most frequent or common
Belligerent---characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
Aggressive--- having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends

An Image:
“Other people? Let me put it in this way. Before I got on television I thought people weren`t interested in me because I hadn`t accomplished enough in my life. bur after I got on television, nothing changed. I didn`t have fewer friends but I didn`t have more either, and for a while I assumed it was because I was now too accomplished, had done too much, had had too many interesting conversations with too many interesting people to be bothered with them. But then I realized, and it didn`t take very long, that that wasn`t it either. That the people who didn`t want to have anything to do with me didn`t want to have anything to do with me, no matter what I did or didn`t do. Just because I was me ad they were them, if you follow. Which, in a way, was sort of liberation, however lonely at times. And the truth is, after a certain while, a certain age, it`s too much trouble yo make new friends, all that chat, the dinners , the excitement, the laughter, the old jokers trotted out all over again. Too much work.”

Devices;
1. “It like that evening that evening that Jessica Zippin had proposed, wit her mother and the new husband. Just the thought of it, the getting dressed, walking to the restaurant, the chirpy chit-chat, the threadbare celebrity anecdote, the evening winding down the coffee and comfortable chuckles, the shaking of the hands in front the restaurant, the promise to do it again soon, God, it just seemed fucking intolerable.” (Balanced)
2. “That I would carry the sensation in my body like a toothache forever.” (Simile)
3. Someone had him. Somewhere. Someone who wanted him. (Anaphora)

Roman thought about his own life and career, he realized that Simon is the most critical one to his life now. He cannot understand who Simon was disappeared. He was hungered for sensation. He found morphine tablets in a friend home and started to take it. He dreamed about Simon after he took the medicine and then got flu.

An image:

“it had been about six weeks now, the snow mostly gone, running in the sewers; you could hear it first thing in the morning, this water running and wet car tires on pavement. Some mornings when I looked out the window and saw it was another grey day I thought God was doing it to me on purpose, making it as bad as possible, so that Simon came home, it`d be all the better. The sun`d come out, water would stop running in the gutters.”

New words:

Slavishly--- in a slavish manner
Distraught---deeply agitated especially from emotion
Sympathetically---with respect to the sympathetic nervous system

Two devices;
1. Roman, Roman, join us, join us, no one`s watching. (Anadiplosis)
2. Then he came closer, close enough to touch; still not a sound.( Anadiplosis)
3. But he didn`t answer, he just stared and stared, like he was watching a movie. It was as if the rain made the movie in his little brain all the more vivid. (metaphor)

Roman began to have varieties of dreams and visions. He thought about his childhood, his mother and all the time he was with Simon. Sorrow filled his heart up and he has no passion to pay attention to work.

An Image:
“I went out again that night. Garages backlit like Hollywood sets; bushes like hanged men; windows bulging like eyeballs; a third-floor bedroom painted a childlike red. I looked in garden sheds, in parking lots, in backyards. I whispered his name down dark stairwells.”

Three New Words:

Exhilarating--- making lively and cheerful
Monotonous---tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
Reassurance---the act of reassuring; restoring someone`s confidence
Bewilderment---confusion resulting from failure to understand.

Two Devices:

1. “It looked rather odd, a six-year-old boy with his hands on his chest. Like an old man or someone in a coffin.” (simile)
2. “I think she was afraid to jinx the situation by injecting poison into the air.” (metaphor)


Roman lost his son and felt into a hopeless cave that he can hardly get himself to calm down. Searching Simon is the only thing that he can control himself to maintain.

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