Reading Question

1. This week, on Thursday, we learned about imagery. Find an example of imagery in the book, quote it, and explain how it appeals to your senses.

My quote of imagery is actually the same one I used in class, mostly because it is one of my favorites. It is on page 121 and is the scene where Marie and her father are eating breakfast with Madame Manec. The quote is "The eggs taste taste like clouds. Like spun gold. Madame Manec says, 'I think she likes it,' and laughs again.... 'How about peaches my dear?'... Seconds later, she's eating wedges of wet sunlight." This piece of text is such a clear description of the textures and tastes of the food that she is eating that when I read it I could taste the food myself. I would love to see more books use such powerful imagery to help move the story along.

Reading Question

Discuss the structure of the novel so far. Why has the author made the chapters and chronology in the way that he has?

I believe that the author has a reason to be skipping around and that if he did it this book would be a lot harder to read. Most of the time the thing that keeps me reading a book is cliff hangers. This book however starts off slow in the parts that are further back in time. So the author decided to skip to times in the future to make you more confused and interested as to how the characters got to that place and what changes happened. This is great because it keeps readers like me engaged and not bored of reading about the, what I consider uneventful, past in the story.