Summary Blade is an 18 year old musician. He doesn’t like his father. He finds he’s adopted, and goes on a quest to find his birth mother who is in Africa with help from two girls. His dad follows him and goes to meet Blade’s mom too. He finds what he’s been looking for. Everything is right in Blades world.
Anylasis (Figurative Language) Kwame Alexander uses so much figurative language in so many different ways. A easily identifiable one is on page 30 when the title of that poem says “She melts right in front of me” because someone can’t literally melt. Another example of figurative language in this book is on page 44 “While I’m in my room swimming in a fishbowl, trying to write my life on strings” I love the way Alexander put this because this really shows how Blade is trapped in his own thoughts. Making Blade a musician talking in figurative language all the time. Alexander uses this in so many different ways it’s hard to count. Again an example of this is shown on page 47 when Blade says “Rutherford is picasso with pen and guitar.” As I said before he uses this so many different ways, he uses at least four different versions. Like, metaphor when he says “break a leg, killer!” on page 54. He doesn’t mean go actually break someone’s leg, it means good luck. He also uses personification on page 125 right after Blade finds out he’s adopted “buried in silence” and “Music itself has died” I like the way that he describes the heartbreak Blade just experienced. This is only very few of these that Kwame Alexander used in his book.
Opinion I love this book for so many different reasons. It shows the struggles that teens go through with family and anything else in our life. From parents to break ups to siblings. Kwame Alexander made this book so relatable for teens and young adults. He really shows the struggle of finding out that your adopted. I love how he shows the emotions in his characters so well. For example, Blade hates his famous family who stops him from being with the girl he loves. Alexander shows that by either having Blade write songs about his pain or end up lashing out. He also shows emotion through Rutherford, Blades father, by having him lash out or near the end of the book show real, sincere love for his adopted son.
Blade is an 18 year old musician. He doesn’t like his father. He finds he’s adopted, and goes on a quest to find his birth mother who is in Africa with help from two girls. His dad follows him and goes to meet Blade’s mom too. He finds what he’s been looking for. Everything is right in Blades world.
Anylasis (Figurative Language)
Kwame Alexander uses so much figurative language in so many different ways. A easily identifiable one is on page 30 when the title of that poem says “She melts right in front of me” because someone can’t literally melt. Another example of figurative language in this book is on page 44 “While I’m in my room swimming in a fishbowl, trying to write my life on strings” I love the way Alexander put this because this really shows how Blade is trapped in his own thoughts. Making Blade a musician talking in figurative language all the time. Alexander uses this in so many different ways it’s hard to count. Again an example of this is shown on page 47 when Blade says “Rutherford is picasso with pen and guitar.” As I said before he uses this so many different ways, he uses at least four different versions. Like, metaphor when he says “break a leg, killer!” on page 54. He doesn’t mean go actually break someone’s leg, it means good luck. He also uses personification on page 125 right after Blade finds out he’s adopted “buried in silence” and “Music itself has died” I like the way that he describes the heartbreak Blade just experienced. This is only very few of these that Kwame Alexander used in his book.
Opinion
I love this book for so many different reasons. It shows the struggles that teens go through with family and anything else in our life. From parents to break ups to siblings. Kwame Alexander made this book so relatable for teens and young adults. He really shows the struggle of finding out that your adopted. I love how he shows the emotions in his characters so well. For example, Blade hates his famous family who stops him from being with the girl he loves. Alexander shows that by either having Blade write songs about his pain or end up lashing out. He also shows emotion through Rutherford, Blades father, by having him lash out or near the end of the book show real, sincere love for his adopted son.