Thursday, June 30, 2011

Chapter 9 - Alliteration and Approval

"There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep..." (pg. 143)

As the author describes how Lenina looks in the hotel bed, he uses an example of alliteration.  Alliteration is mostly used to writing to grab the reader's attention and focus it on the topic.  This example turns one's attention to the details and adjectives of the clothes Lenina is wearing.  I think alliteration is always fun to read.  Why wouldn't someone want to read "She sells seashells by the seashore"?  It makes reading interesting...

This chapter had some major events happen that could affect the setting of the rest of the book.  While Lenina had been sleeping all day in her bed, Bernard crept away to Santa Fe to get the necessary work done to be able to bring back John and Linda.  If everything works out, Bernard, John, Lenina, and Linda should be going back to New Mexico where three of them are from.  Also, I wonder what the big wigs in Santa Fe thought when Bernard was explaining to them the situation back at the Reserve.  If I was one of them, I probably would not have believed him.

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