Spinelli uses the image of rain to show how everyone's hats are thrown up and fall back from the air as Jeffery hits home runs. "It was raining red and green hats." (25) Comparing the child to a frightened mouse makes it even more clear how he feels small compared to the great fear the house evokes for East End children. This metaphor is used during the story about Arnold Jones and the other boys being afraid of a certain house. "He's paralyzed, a mouse in front of the yawning maw of a python." (18) This contradicts other times that Jeffery's skin color makes him stand out, shows their shared focus on the books Amanda carries, and evokes a sense of nature through the use of the image of a rock and a stream. This turn of phrase, used the first time Jeffery meets Amanda, describes how the other school children flowed around them, not bothered by them being together. ![]() "He and Amanda and the suitcase were like a rock in a stream the school-goers just flowed to the left and right around them." (11) ![]() ![]() Buy Study Guide Rock in a Stream (Simile)
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |