Update #2 of “The Blind Assassin” (Pages 112-225) Imagery: “You mean it enough for this, he says. She slides her arm around his waist and they go up the stairs a little clumsily, a little heavily; their bodies slow them down. Halfway up there’s a round window of coloured glass: through the cobalt blue of the sky, the grapes in dime-store purple, the headache red of the flowers, light falls, staining their faces. On the second-floor landing he kisses her again, this time harder, sliding her skirt up her silky legs as far as the tops of her stockings, fingering the little hard rubber nipples there, pressing her up against the wall. She always wears a girdle: getting her out of it is like peeling the skin off a seal.” *Sorry for the perversion. This book is an adult novel after all...
New Words: Gristly: rough, tough, hard to chew Dainty: delicate, exquisite Narcissism: vanity, egotism
Figurative/rhetorical language: Simile/personification: “...for the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.” Simile/imagery: “She’s stupid as a thulk, but she has a soft dense mouth like a waterlogged velvet cushion and tapered fingers deft as fish, and sly narrow eyes, and an educated knack.”
One sentence reaction: The passage blew me away with an interesting twist and a lot of attention to detail.
Imagery:
“You mean it enough for this, he says. She slides her arm around his waist and they go up the stairs a little clumsily, a little heavily; their bodies slow them down. Halfway up there’s a round window of coloured glass: through the cobalt blue of the sky, the grapes in dime-store purple, the headache red of the flowers, light falls, staining their faces. On the second-floor landing he kisses her again, this time harder, sliding her skirt up her silky legs as far as the tops of her stockings, fingering the little hard rubber nipples there, pressing her up against the wall. She always wears a girdle: getting her out of it is like peeling the skin off a seal.”
*Sorry for the perversion. This book is an adult novel after all...
New Words:
Gristly: rough, tough, hard to chew
Dainty: delicate, exquisite
Narcissism: vanity, egotism
Figurative/rhetorical language:
Simile/personification: “...for the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.”
Simile/imagery: “She’s stupid as a thulk, but she has a soft dense mouth like a waterlogged velvet cushion and tapered fingers deft as fish, and sly narrow eyes, and an educated knack.”
One sentence reaction:
The passage blew me away with an interesting twist and a lot of attention to detail.