Similes and Metaphors in My Sister's Keeper

Simile- " Anger grows around this kid like electricity: this means that her anger is so strong and growing(fierce)

Simile- " There is a sound beside me like an animal wounded, a dying gasp. Then Brian presses his face into my shoulder, sobs into my skin.


Metaphor- " There is a comfort to having Brian beside me, as if we are now a pair of sentries, a double line of defense." : this metaphor is trying to explain how Sara feels with her husband with her, which is she feels more secure and right and complete with him there.

Metaphor- " Weeks have rhymes all their own, and the craziness of a Friday or Saturday night shift stands in direct contrast to a dull Sunday or Monday."- This is saying that throughout the week he can always count on the days to e the same- Friday hectic, Sunday- dull.

My Sister's Keeper Definitions

Metaphor -a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which is not literally applicable.

Simile-A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or  as 


 Info from :   ohttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/similer 

I am a Keeper

I think i am a keeper for my niece. I have a niece that is around two years old and i watch her all the time, i think i am her keeper. Whenever she falls or needs help i am there for her to make sure she is okay or to give her what she needs. When i babysit her i am completely responsible for her and feel like I  am her other parent. I am my niece's keeper because i am there to protect her and watch out for her when she needs me.

My Sister's Keeper and Author Bio

The book My Sister's Keeper is written by a women named Jodi Picoult, she studied writing at Princeton University and she got her bachelor's degree, she also got her masters degree in education at Harvard University. Jodie has had a few stories published in Seventeen Magazine and her very first novel is called Songs of the Humpback Whale; most of her stories include some sort of problem. My Sister's Keeper is about a young girl named Anna who has to keep her sister alive because she has cancer and Anna is the only match for transplants that her sister needs in order to live.

I have heard that the book is very sad but that it is a good book.


sources:
http://bestsellers.about.com/od/authorprofilesaz/p/jodi_picoult.htm

http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/books/pump-up-the-volumes/2009/01/21/1232471365695.html