Week 2 Post A

Definitions

aggrieved (p.27)- to oppress or wrong grievously; injure by injustice.
disillusionment (p.33)- to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.

Figurative Language

"She ran her fingers along the hood of Jalil's car, which was black, shiny, with glittering wheels in which Mariam saw a flattened, widened version of herself." (p.30) The car, is an example of a symbol. Mariam pictures this car as the beautiful side of herself and as something that can do no wrong. Mariam is constantly striving to be loved and accepted, and she views the car as something that is exactly that.

"The treetops swayed in the breeze, and she imagined they were nodding their welcome to her" (p.30) This is personification because it gives human traits to objects. It's little things like these that make to book so entertaining that I can barely bring myself to put the book down.

"Paper-thin skin" (p.32) Aside from the fact that this rhymes, it is a simily because it compares two thing in order to describe something.

Quote

"She walked on a maroon carpet with a repeating blue-and-yellow octagonal pattern." This quote reminds me of when I was a little kid. Since I was very short, I tended to look at the ground a lot and I noticed the patterns just like Mariam. I remember how my mom would always go to the dry cleaners on Wednesday and I would hop around the carpet and try to stay on the curvy lines and patterns that were in the carpet.