Week 3- Entry A

Vocabulary-

(p 295) entrenched- To provide with a trench, especially for the purpose of fortifying or defending

(p 351) commiserate- to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity

Figurative Language-

1. (p 295) "After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their hearts' impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble?" Time is compared to marble in this simile.

2. (p 337) "He'd scraped until dark, [...] gouging out rotting wood, half expecting blood to bead up where he'd punctured the church's skin." The church is personified as having skin and blood.

3. (p 351) "They were like ghosts, each inhabiting different dimensions of the same physical space [...]" The Whitings are compared to ghosts in this simile.

Quote

(p 468) "Before long he knew the names of all three librarians, one of whom had confessed that she'd taken him for a professor or a writer researching a book. [...] But to be tole, at forty-three, that he looked like what he'd meant to be only increased Mile's sense of personal failure." Mile's should have done what he wanted to, but instead he got stuck in Empire Falls. He was so close to escaping, but Mrs. Whiting and Grace's sickness brought him back. I just feel so bad for poor Mile's.

Theme-

You can't run away from your life. You have to go and face the problems and figure it out.