Hey guys so for my creative project I wrote a song inspired by the relationship between Cosimo and Viola in The Baron in the Trees. The song is on youtube which you can get to by clicking the link below!


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Running After Antelope question response

Explain the meaning of "They had the structure of the Golden Gate Bridge-a high, sinewy arch with built-in springs and pulleys, and long toes stretching out for purchase." What literary device is shown here? (21)

        The author uses these lines at the end of a paragraph which he spent describing how beautiful and aesthetically pleasing this girl was. At the end we find these lines comparing her feet to the Golden Gate bridge. Several literary devices are cooperatively at work here. Most obviously is the use of imagery in which the reader develops an almost majestic and beautiful picture of this woman in their minds. In addition to the imagery, there is the metaphor or her feet being like a bridge; not just any bridge but the Golden Gate Bridge. Her tendons and muscles in her feet also are implied to be like the cables of the suspension bridge. The last device while maybe not particularly important is simply the allusion to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Running After Antelope Questions

Trout stream families

1. Why does the author repeat the first and last lines of the story?
2. Why does the author use the third person point of view for the entire story?
3. Explain what is meant by "This is the beginning the story." (pg.26)
4. What does the "ghost of an Indian" symbolize?
5. Explain the image of "what the snake had in its mouth." (pg.26)
6. What do "the poems of Rilke on the desert blacktop highway" represent?
7. Explain how the author heavy use of imagery in the story.
8. Why does author choose to say the three year old is  "nearly out of his mind with possibilities"?
9. Why do the three group of people(men, women, children) not interact with each other?
10. What is the author saying about family relations in this story?

My Full Moon Experience

It was cold, too cold to be in just a tank top and shorts. But I didn't care. The night's refreshing bite made me feel alive, more alive than I've felt for a few days now. I went outside a few minutes to minutes planning on taking a quick glance at the full moon and rushing back inside. After looking at the moon for a few seconds I realized I was captured, no paralyzed by it. What is about the moon that is so encompassing? It's astonishing to think the mood simply reflects light and is nothing more than a cold, windless, rock. Then I realized by feet had gone almost completely numb and I couldn't feel my ears. How long had I been outside? Was it still today or had it vanished into tomorrow? I hesitantly headed back inside, but as I did I could've sworn something or someone wanted me to stay outside and keep looking at the moon.