The+Compound+-+Chapter+11

  Chapter 11  Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”    Beethoven “We had been working on her variation of Beethoven’s [|String Quartet] no. 15 in [|A Minor.] "     <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Oliver Twist <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Tell me how you got in.” She rolled her eyes. “I read Oliver Twist.” “Say what? And he picks lock __ [|s] __?" <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">yellow legal pad  <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Dad sent me to one of the larger  <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">storage rooms and left me on my own with a yellow legal pad and a pen. "  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px; text-align: left;">new-fangled  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“We’ve been doing it the old-fashioned way. We need to step it up and make more Supplements the new-fangle[|d] way." <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;">

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">Vocabulary and Concepts <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|junk food] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|picks locks]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|cloning]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|edible/inedible]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|forced laugh]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">__ [|bonded through the music] __  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|miscalculated]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;">

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">Literary Devices <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">such a little freak <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">didn't see any harm  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> went to all this trouble <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">seemed out of place <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"Everything had to be accounted for. Every jar of pickles. Every bottle of laundry detergent. Every box of feminine hygiene products. __//Lovely.//__”  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Dad seemed like he’d actually listened to me. So I //__offered up an olive branc__// [|h] .” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“There were leading tones on the strong beat, and then there were quiet, slower half notes that felt mysterious, almost sinister. Not a //__picker upper__//, by any means.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Plastic bags of Jack Link’s. Lots of them. .... I might be holding //__an important find__//. The wrapper crinkled as I bit off a hunk of jerky. A bit //__past its prime__//. But still tasty. Still meat.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“I didn’t know where his reasoning was headed. Or maybe I didn’t want to admit it. __My mind was so cloude[|d]__ that I missed his next few words.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“As she set the hot fresh bread on the cooling rack, the funny-smelling bread that no one but Dad would eat, I could tell what was //__running through her mind__//.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “Dad kept on. “It would be a true experiment, since no one has done it before. But think, if I could __//pull it off//__ …” He grinned. “I could patent the process and it could be used for generations.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “...tell us when the food will run out?”... “About a year before the fifteen years are up. Depending on the hydroponics, of course." He __//could have been giving us the weather report//__.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “I wanted so much for my children. For a while //__you had it all__//. Good schools, everything you could want to make a great childhood. And I was happy.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“My parents and the life they made together. Not perfect, but strong nonetheless. It was not pleasant to find out the //__f____oundation of your house had dry rot__//."