My Sister's Keeper- Literary terms.

Simile- a figure of speech using like or as to compare two or more unlike things.
Metaphor- a figure of speech where an implied comparison is made between two or more unlike things.
- Google.

Similes used:
1. "Do you miss it, Sara?" he asks quietly. "...Like i miss a root canal" I say." (page 28)
2. "I pick up the locket, resigned the seal the deal, and the strangest thing happens- my hand, it just clamps shut like the jaws of life." (page 9)
3. "Actually, that's not quite true- right now she doesn't have it, but it's hibernating under her skin like a bear, until it decided to roar again." (Page 10)
4. "It smells like the sweaty tongue of a hockey skate." (page 14)
5. "Anger glows around this kid like electricity." (page 21)


Metaphors used:
1. "I have an iron Lung" (page 18)
2. "The smile of a child is a tattoo." (page 27)
3. "When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail." (page 22)
4. "The room is a sea of dirty clothes and magazines and left-over Chinese take out cartons. (page 14)
5. "A women, I say, isn't all that different from a bonfire." (page 48)

The use of these literary terms in the story adds a positive effect. It makes it easier to understand how the characters act and react to certain events and news. For example, when Brain was lying like an obleke character in bed, we understand how he felt when he heard Kate's news that she had cancer.They are able to give you a deeper understanding of what is going on. If the author just wrote Brain was standing there, we don't get the same effect as when she adds in how he was standing. Literary terms help to enhance what you are reading, and make it easier to follow along to in a more creative way.

Someone's keeper

I feel like I am my friends keeper. When they need advice they come to me as if i am their older sister and i feel honored when I am able to help them. An example of this is with one of my friends she was having family and friend issues and told me about them and me and the help of her mom we were able to talk through them with her and resolve most of them so she was able to still have a strong relationship with them. Also i feel like i was the keeper of my friend Nadia because she had a friend who i thought would be a bad influence on her and she should not get involved with them. I pointed out the reasons why i felt the way i did and she listened to me. I feel like when i need one of them to be my keeper they are there for me, but most of the time i am the one that is their keeper and looking out for what is in the best interest for them. Lastly, I feel like I am my cousins keeper because he is only 4 so i feel like when i babysit him i watch out for him and keep him safe and out of trouble.

Intro to My Sister's Keeper by: Jodi Picoult

We are about to read My Sister's Keeper by: Jodi Picoult. She has written sixteen books, some of which I have read. She also writes books that she sells in places like Australia and the United Kingdom. She had a husband and she also has 3 children, all of whom live with her in New Hampshire. Picture Perfect, Mercy, Nineteen Minutes, House Rules, Handle with Care, are all some of her eight teen best selling books. She has been named as a New York Times, best selling author because of how liked her books are by everyone. Picoult studied at Princeton where she really started to enjoy writing. She wrote s couple of articles which got published into the magazine Seventeen. She did many jobs and then she attended Harvard University so she could get a masters degree in education and become a teacher. She got the New England Bookseller award for Fiction, because all of the books she has written are fiction. Lastly, her husband is Tim Van Leer.

http://www.jodipicoult.com/jodi-picoult-books.html

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A little bit about the book:
This book is about two girls named Anna and Kate. Anna goes through a lot of things like shots and surgeries so she can try and heal her sister Kate from the Leukemia she is suffering with. Anna matches er bone marrow, so she is able to give blood to Kate to try and help heal her. I think in the story, Anna is going to go through a surgery where most of her blood gets cleared out of her and put into Kate so she can have all new blood, because she wants her sister to live more than her.