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Tiger
the roar began just as Tiger’s roar had, but then Charlie changed it, so it became a really goofy sort of roar,
any perfect caricature,
He sang the song of Rosie Noah and the song of Rosie’s mother:
he sang a long life for Mrs Noah and all the happiness that she deserved.
Haha - a blessing, or a curse? Question
Charlie realized, with no little surprise, that he enjoyed singing to other people, and he knew, at that moment, that this was what he would spend the rest of his life doing.
Simile extended
the content of the song was unraveling like a dream in the morning.
Simile perfect
Haha - permanent humiliation and mockery.
SPIDER
ROSIE
Simile
CHARLIE
DAISY
TIGER
a small voice
Haha
Haha - it’s a Grahame Coats!
Mr. Nancy
Every once in a while he would wake and remember where he was, then he’d roll over and go back to sleep.
Haha - context from To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell:
Thy Beauty shall no more be found;
Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound
My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try
That long preserv'd Virginity:
And your quaint Honour turn to durst;
And into ashes all my Lust.
The Grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
https://allpoetry.com/To-His-Coy-Mistress
he saw Carrie at a drive-in,
There were good dreams to be dreamed in the world beneath the soil.
Haha
ROSIE
SPIDER
Dawson’s Fish Shack is now a restaurant,
Haha she’s plump too, IIRC.
this author
Haha
CHARLIE’S
Marcus:
Haha
Daisy
Marcus had the certainty of walls, of mountains.
Simile metaphor double
Remember Fat Charlie couldn’t see the mermaids when his dad took him out to look for them, p. 6.
She sighed. Mermaids sigh better than anyone.
Jane Morpeth,
the bit of the novel that was almost a Warner Brothers’ cartoon.
in media terms, the UK was practically the 51st state.
I created an America that was entirely imaginary,
ANANSI BOYS. Copyright © 2005 by Neil Gaiman.
