The+Compound+-+Chapter+21

    Chapter 21  Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”

Safety net “My hand dropped to my side. “What the hell are you doing here?” //He shrugged. “Safety net. You know, your dad was panicked when he called me, he really didn’t expect you to figure out that code.”// 

Vocabulary and Concepts [|flak jackets] [|propeller]  [|shudder]  [|erstwhile]  [|charges]  [|broadside]  [|admonish]

<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;">“But it wouldn’t change the fact that no matter what I did, my mother and my brothers and my sisters down below were still in the hands of my father. If I ran, and even if I found help, I might lose my family ”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“My hands curled into fists. “I’m not trading this prison for a new one.” <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;">“Phil screamed several choice words and then poked a finger in my chest. “Stupid kid! You set it off!” He scrambled to his feet and climbed back out of the hatch to where Dad was leaning over, looking down at us. //Dad shouted over the blaring of the alarm. “How much time do we have?”// <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Phil held out his hands. “The warning only sounds in the last ten minutes!” <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;">“Was Dad on it? I was quite certain Phil didn’t have the nerve to leave without him.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“And as I listened to the nothing of the night, a faint scream bit into the silence.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“Out of the dark to my left, becoming more visible as they neared, was the rest of my family. Lexie carried the two little ones and Terese held Lucas.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“ I saw he was me. With longer hair.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">