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A Perfect Night to Go to China
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“I went out again that night. Garages backlit like Hollywood sets; bushes like hanged men; windows bulging like eyeballs; a third-floor bedroom painted a childlike red. I looked in garden sheds, in parking lots, in backyards. I whispered his name down dark stairwells.”

Three New Words:

Exhilarating--- making lively and cheerful
Monotonous---tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
Reassurance---the act of reassuring; restoring someone`s confidence
Bewilderment---confusion resulting from failure to understand.

Two Devices:

1. “It looked rather odd, a six-year-old boy with his hands on his chest. Like an old man or someone in a coffin.” (simile)
2. “I think she was afraid to jinx the situation by injecting poison into the air.” (metaphor)


Roman lost his son and felt into a hopeless cave that he can hardly get himself to calm down. Searching Simon is the only thing that he can control himself to maintain.


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