ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Instant Rice, Eaves, Simile
13 Apr 2016
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I grabbed one of the desk chairs and sat down outside my door in the shade of the overhanging eaves, waiting for a breeze that never arrived. The air outside sat as still and oppressive as the air inside. I stare out over my digs: six one-story buildings, each with sixteen dorm rooms arranged in a hexagram around a large circle of grass. Everywhere, boys and girls hugged and smiled and walked together. I vaguely hoped that someone would come up and talk to me (8). Significance: this quotation reveals setting, character and it uses a literary device. This description of miles" first impression of the school, culver creek preparatory, develops the scene of this elite boarding school. Clique and he is an outsider, as he has been his entire life. There is also a simile comparing the school to an old motel, a bunch of buildings with connected rooms whose doors circled around the hexagram.
