Part 1/5 Strong/Potent word image: 28-29 “The women’s oyster flesh eyes fell on me and I grew instantly colder” New words: pg.25 frivolity, pg.26 dainty, pg 25 unmitigated Rhetorical/Literary devices: Imagery-pg 43 Tub’s eyes was red and swollen and dead-looking..” Metaphor, Imagery: pg 57 “She declared, and loudly that my brother was a heathen and the hottest water of hell could not cleanse him.” Impression of this part: The story starts of quickly with the main character Eli and his brother Charlie well renowned murderers being introduced. There are a lot of things packed into these few pages. Many things happen to the characters, and some of the events are somewhat random and confusing.
Part 2/5 Strong/Potent word image: PG 89 “His eyes were full of mistrust and dislike and he was in short a most unfriendly young man” New words: pg 85 reprimand, pg 113 petulance, pg 120 virulently Rhetorical/Literary devices: Personification- pg 115 “The thought that the earth itself was talking care of you, was in favour of you.” Simile-pg 101”... Lucky Paul can climb these hills like a spider climbs a wall” Impression of this part: As they are getting closer towards their goal the pace of the book slows down a little. At this point it is mostly focused on Eli’s “love life” or his failure of having one.
Part 3/5 Strong/Potent word image: pg 162- “Perhaps a man is never meant to be truly happy. Perhaps there is no such a thing in our world after all.” New words: pg. 142 quaint, pg 172impotently, pg 182 tepid Rhetorical/Literary devices: Simile- pg 137 “Your laughter is like cool water to me” Personification -pg 137 “I felt my heart sob” Impression of this part: In this part things start to get even more interesting. After they left their last stop with a fair amount of things gained. They have arrived at their destination. Only for them to be greeted by something they would never expect.
Part 4/5 Strong/Potent word image: pg 211 ”The Golden pearl was simply bathed in wine-red heavy velvet with hundred-candle chandeliers over each table, bone china plates, silk napkins and solid silver cutlery.” New words: pg 198: incongruously, pg 210 perambulations, pg 211 immaculate Rhetorical/Literary devices: Sarcasm – “I will never tire of the subject as long as I am living” Personification pg 225 “As I drifted away to sleep I watched the tree tops bowing and clashing in the wind” Impression of this part: In this part: After many more twists in the story things seem to be finally turning out really well for Eli and his brother. The pace yet again slows down a little. The author is probably trying to get the readers to think everything will end perfectly.
Part 5/5 Strong/Potent word image: pg 266 “The guillotine he said was the mechanical embodiment of man’s underachievement and aesthetic sloth.” New words: pg 303 pontificate, pg 272 reveille, pg 270 cocksure Rhetorical/Literary devices: Personification- pg 325 “The sound the water made was like a voice...” Personification, Imagery- pg 281 “I could actually see the blisters rising and falling as though they were breathing.” Impression of this part: In this part: At the end of the last part everything seemed to be going perfect. When I started reading this part things went crazy. This was probably the first time when I was reading a book where I would read something and say to myself “what the ****” out loud, as soon as a thought things couldn’t change anymore it happened until the very end where it ended in the most unusual fashion. Overall this was a wonderful book to read!
Strong/Potent word image: 28-29 “The women’s oyster flesh eyes fell on me and I grew instantly colder”
New words: pg.25 frivolity, pg.26 dainty, pg 25 unmitigated
Rhetorical/Literary devices:
Imagery-pg 43 Tub’s eyes was red and swollen and dead-looking..”
Metaphor, Imagery: pg 57 “She declared, and loudly that my brother was a heathen and the hottest water of hell could not cleanse him.”
Impression of this part: The story starts of quickly with the main character Eli and his brother Charlie well renowned murderers being introduced. There are a lot of things packed into these few pages. Many things happen to the characters, and some of the events are somewhat random and confusing.
Part 2/5
Strong/Potent word image: PG 89 “His eyes were full of mistrust and dislike and he was in short a most unfriendly young man”
New words: pg 85 reprimand, pg 113 petulance, pg 120 virulently
Rhetorical/Literary devices:
Personification- pg 115 “The thought that the earth itself was talking care of you, was in favour of you.”
Simile-pg 101”... Lucky Paul can climb these hills like a spider climbs a wall”
Impression of this part: As they are getting closer towards their goal the pace of the book slows down a little. At this point it is mostly focused on Eli’s “love life” or his failure of having one.
Part 3/5
Strong/Potent word image: pg 162- “Perhaps a man is never meant to be truly happy. Perhaps there is no such a thing in our world after all.”
New words: pg. 142 quaint, pg 172impotently, pg 182 tepid
Rhetorical/Literary devices:
Simile- pg 137 “Your laughter is like cool water to me”
Personification -pg 137 “I felt my heart sob”
Impression of this part: In this part things start to get even more interesting. After they left their last stop with a fair amount of things gained. They have arrived at their destination. Only for them to be greeted by something they would never expect.
Part 4/5
Strong/Potent word image: pg 211 ”The Golden pearl was simply bathed in wine-red heavy velvet with hundred-candle chandeliers over each table, bone china plates, silk napkins and solid silver cutlery.”
New words: pg 198: incongruously, pg 210 perambulations, pg 211 immaculate
Rhetorical/Literary devices:
Sarcasm – “I will never tire of the subject as long as I am living”
Personification pg 225 “As I drifted away to sleep I watched the tree tops bowing and clashing in the wind”
Impression of this part: In this part: After many more twists in the story things seem to be finally turning out really well for Eli and his brother. The pace yet again slows down a little. The author is probably trying to get the readers to think everything will end perfectly.
Part 5/5
Strong/Potent word image: pg 266 “The guillotine he said was the mechanical embodiment of man’s underachievement and aesthetic sloth.”
New words: pg 303 pontificate, pg 272 reveille, pg 270 cocksure
Rhetorical/Literary devices:
Personification- pg 325 “The sound the water made was like a voice...”
Personification, Imagery- pg 281 “I could actually see the blisters rising and falling as though they were breathing.”
Impression of this part: In this part: At the end of the last part everything seemed to be going perfect. When I started reading this part things went crazy. This was probably the first time when I was reading a book where I would read something and say to myself “what the ****” out loud, as soon as a thought things couldn’t change anymore it happened until the very end where it ended in the most unusual fashion. Overall this was a wonderful book to read!