Week One- Post A

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Vocabulary
1) Supple (12) - Bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed.
2) Glinted (14) - To gleam or flash briefly.
Figurative Language
1) "I saw the deck of the cargo bay give way to the ocean's silvered surface, dark and supple as a snake's skin, four hundred feet below" (12). This is an example of a simile because it uses as to compare the ocean's surface to snake skin.
2) "My arms sang with pain" (13). This is an example of personification because it says an object/thing (his arms) performs an action only a mouth can do (sing).
3) "Aflame, it seeped quickly downward, cut lines trailing, undulating like a giant jellyfish intent on the ocean's bottem" (16). This is an example of a simile because it uses like to compare the trailing cut lines to a giant jelly fish at the ocean's floor.
Quote
"I felt no fear. If someone had put an ear to my chest he'd find it beating no faster than it had in the crow's nest. It was not bravery on my part, simply a fact of natur, for I was born in the air, and so it seemed the most natural place in the world to me" (12/13). I like this quote because it shows how Matt loves being in the air and isn't scared of any task on the ship. He'll do anything for his captain whether it is jumping a six foot gap while you're four hundred feet in the air with lives at risk.
Theme
An emerging theme is have no fear when you need to accomplish a tough task.