The+Compound+-+Chapter+9

  Chapter 9  Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”   for cripes' sake  “She’s in a bomb shelter, for __cripes’ sake__. What the hell does she have to be smug[|*] about?”

 Tea  “The Supplements were already the cause of too much weirdness in our world. Like the short-lived experiment with Tea.... We weren’t really drinking tea—we <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">just called our snack time __Tea__, thanks to Terese and her obsession with everything British.” <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Land o' Lakes <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;">“I always guzzled mine down, rather than use it to wash down the cookies. For those two and a half seconds every day, I pretended that I was still in the old world, Els standing by to refill my glass with an icy gallon jug of __//Land O’ Lakes//__ 2 percent.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">ginger snaps <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“I stuffed a __ginger snap__ in my mouth as Lexie and Terese took their time, sipping their milk after every few bites of cookie.”

<span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px; text-align: center;">breast pump <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;"> <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Mom had an electric __//breast pump//__, and like a cow, the more she pumped the more she produced."

<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Yanakakasaurus

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“A husband who breeds new kids to feed to his old ones.” Lexie’s mouth dropped open. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">I didn’t even need to //__pause for effect.__// “There’s a type of dinosaur that did the same thing.” I snapped my fingers. “Hey, they could name it after Dad. The __Yanakakasaurus__.”

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<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;">“I couldn’t do anything but shake my head and walk away. When had the Supplements __morphed__ into family members?”

<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;">[|breeds] <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;">[|distasteful]  <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;">[|repulsed]  <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;">[|bomb shelter]  <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;">[|nutrients]  <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;">[|justify]  <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;">[|dotes]  <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;">[|instantaneous]  <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;">[|crucial]

<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: right;"> <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“ON MY WAY TO GET SOME LUNCH, MY //__MIND WHIRLED__//. MAN, first the Internet is connected, and then Dad says it’s not. __//He lied right to my face//__. And lying only came that easily when you did it a lot. So what else was he lying about?”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “ I needed to __//get a grip//__. Bothering my sister might help. “You’re __//pretty in pink//__.”[|*] Her face turned my way with __//a hint of a smile//__. “No, wait. You’re __//pretty pathetic//__ in pink.” I laughed.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“She was really starting to __ruin my lunch__. “Last time I checked, we’re all on the same side. The __//underside//__.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Dad called her __//his little Holstein//__, because as long as she ate well and got enough rest, she produced a lot of milk. Plenty for the Supplements. And for us.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“It was strange. Not in a bad way. More //__like the leftover milk at the bottom of a bowl__// of Cheerios with sugar.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“Guess what. You don’t want to hear it, but you’re like me. And me and you? We’re just like Dad. We don’t care about other people and we’re only __//out for ourselves//__.” I pushed away my empty plate. “That’s a __//load of bull//__.”

<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;"> “But it wasn’t like we had a choice when Dad //__put his mind to something__//. My protest was short-lived and __//in the end//__ I believed I had no choice but to drink it and gag.”

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