Week 4- Entry A

Vocabulary-

(p 163) constitutional- beneficial to one's constitution; healthful

(p 165) ursine- of or pertaining to a bear

Figurative Language-

1. (p 171) "Before Jack could answer, there were two more dull thuds and two more plumes of earth shot skyward, this time with greater force- and closer." The word thud is an onomatopoeia because the noise a thud makes is thud.
2. (p 171) "They had both started to search the ground for anything more when there was a loud whompa!" Whompa is also an onomatopoeia.
3. (p 171) "He stared back into the barrage, the rising column of soil and the pebbles bouncing on the ground in front of his and the dry dust in the summer hear drifting like a smoke screen." This simile compares the dust and a smoke screen using the word "like".

Quote

(p 178-179) "After twenty minutes Jack made the first discovery. It was a woman's shoe, with the foot still inside it. [...] In two hours they had found several parts of her bag, assorted scraps of clothing, eighty-seven parts of her laptop and sixty-two pieces of gristly bone, the only recognizable parts of which were her foot, a finger and half a jaw, all of which were sent to the labs." This shows how police officers and detectives must separate their emotions from the job so they can get things done efficiently even when gross and sad moments occur.

Theme-

War is a horrific experience which should not be taken lightly.