Week 5 Post A

Vocabulary:

tweed(94): a coarse wool cloth in a variety of weaves and colors.

platoon(96): a small unit of police fore.

Figurative Language:

1. "Before she could go out on deck, the outer door opened and Ma Costa came down, swathed in an old tweed coat on which the damp had settled like a thousand tiny pearls"(94). This similie is used to describe the "tweed coat."


2. "Helping Mrs. Coulter had been all very well, but Pantalaimon was right: she wasn't really doing any work there, she was just a pretty pet"(98). This metaphor is used to say that Lyra had to move on her life and get away from Mrs. Coulter, because it wasn't helping her get any where.


3. "The low island and the Zaal were humped blackly against the light, like the clustered buildings around"(100). This similie is simply used just to describe the setting.
   

Quote:

"What you're most like is marsh fire, that's the place you have in the gyptian scheme; you got witch oil in your soul. Deceptive, that's what you are, child"(100). I just think this quote is interesting, because I picked deception as a theme in the previous blog post and I said that Lyra is needing to become more and more deceptive in order to survive the corrupt society that she lives in.

Theme:

An important theme that is definetly present is innocence and the unfairness of life.