The+Compound+-+Chapter+7

  Chapter 7  Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”  Monet “I always knew it was merely a reproduction. How could it be anything else? ...The //__Monet__// is real. ... How do you explain that, Eli? How do you explain that?”

Bob Dylan   “Despite being a devoted fan of Bob Dylan and similar musicians, Dad had stocked the CD collection with every genre, including music more off the mainstream. Grunge bands, punk, alternative, indie rock.”

<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;">[|infinitesimal] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|awry] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|meticlous] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|perused] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|broached] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|wired] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|compromised]

<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: left;">“When he managed to find some bands I liked, I had to transfer them to my player. No problem. //__I was made of time.__//”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“Your father said we might be the only ones left. Or some of the few left. And we __//owed it to the world//__ to give it the biggest population we could.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">I rolled my eyes. “And __//you bought that story//__?”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“What the hell, __//the cards were on the table//__. It was the time to ask what I’d always wondered, but __//never had the guts//__ to talk about. “Why did you do it? Agree to it?”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“She’d never broached the subject of the Supplements with me before, even though it was always there, __//hanging over our heads//__. She probably thought it wasn’t worth it, me being <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">the cold loner that I was. ”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“I tried to move away as she grabbed the headphones out of my ears. “There’s a lot you don’t know, Eli.” She backed off, her eyes looking down." <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"I wanted to __//spit the words out//__. “Like what?”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">She tried to find my eyes behind the __//curtain of hair//__. ”