The+Compound+-+Chapter+5

 Chapter 5

Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”  MIT

"Rex Yanakakis, adopted as a baby, then orphaned when he was nineteen, used his genius mind and inheritance to get a degree in computer science at MIT, and then start his own company.”

 Seattle Symphony “...he saw my mom play in the Seattle Symphony and didn’t stop sending her white roses by the dozen until she agreed to see him. ”  American Express Card

“My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to the general public. Gumball machines didn’t have slots for those.”  Tahiti <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“his idea of quality time was a two-week trip twice a year, usually to somewhere exotic like Tahiti or Morocco. ”

<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 40px;">Morocco <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px; text-align: center;">

<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">slick move <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">"...he supported the orphanage he’d been sent to as a baby. They ended up naming it for him. Quite a slick move, I’d say. It basically guaranteed his continued generous support.”

<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: center;">[|threshold]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|de'ja' vu]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|bid us adieu]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|orphaned]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|orphanage]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">genius

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|naming it for him]

<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="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“__//This wonder boy//__ was gifted in math and sciences, __big shocker__ there. Plus I still studied Mandarin.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Maybe the __hardest fact to swallow__ was that, despite his being my father, I didn’t know any more about the man than the general public might find out by reading his biography.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Not wanting to //__forget his roots__//, he supported the orphanage he’d been sent to as a baby. ”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“They __lived the sweet life__. __Happily ever after__ and __all that crap.__”