The+Compound+-+Chapter+15

    Chapter 15  Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”

Shostokavich[|*] “The next morning, I found Mom in the family room, knitting another pink and blue blanket. Candles glowed. The scent of flowers lingered. Music played on the stereo, a sonata for cello and piano—Shostokavich.”

Rocky Mountains

Rockies “You were seven. We went to the __//Rockies//__ after Christmas." My breath caught in my throat, remembering. Our house in __Colorado__ was.... the biggest and most elaborate" 

Oregon Trail “Don’t you think the world thought the people on the Oregon Trail were crazy? To leave solid, contented lives for some stupid quest? They weren’t crazy, they were brave. Brave and determined. Our life we were living, our oh-so-easy life, didn’t give any of you  a chance to be brave or determined ....... Those issues created the perfect need for an alternate food source.

What I came to call the Donner Effect.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;"> Donner Party[|*]



<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">lapdog <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Lex turned her glare to me. “You’re her lapdog, you do whatever she says.” <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">collateral damage

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“I groaned. “And what, the Supplements were just meant to be collateral damage?” //Dad shook his head. “I never would have touched them, not in that way. They’re our children”—he nodded at Mom—“as much as any of you are.”//

<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="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">[|menace] <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">[|lucid]  <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">[|irrational]  <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">[|prototype]  <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">[|deception]  <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">[|lunacy] / [|certifiable]  <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">[|slow motion]

<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;">“ He’s as //__healthy as a horse__//.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “Her hands went to //__her bump__//. “I refuse to have another of my children born in __//this godforsaken place//__.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “Lexie crossed her arms, glaring at Mom. “I know __//there are a billion things//__ you’re keeping from me. Tell me.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “I hate that __//you’re the queen//__ and we have to do everything you say. All you did was marry a rich guy and have his kids. ”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “My emotions were __//running the show//__.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “Dad looked from Mom to Lexie, then back to me. His face held no expression. “I wanted to save my family from __//the largest menace of the modern age//__. __//I’m twisted//__ for wanting to save my family?”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “I do! I talked to Eddy and Gram and they told me everything. …” I trailed off, __//sounding like a little kid trying to talk his way out of getting grounded//__ for __//something inane like shaving the family cat//__.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “His eyebrows lowered and __//his voice was thunder//__. “I am your father. I owe you nothing.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “All these years I believed you.” Tears spilled onto her cheeks. ....“Believe me, __//that broke my heart//__. Seeing your pain. But the deception was necessary for my plan.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “With __//every ounce of my strength//__ and rage, I punched him in the face.... With my extra five inches of height and a good thirty pounds on him, it was __//no contest//__.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “We need to see what we can find out without your father suspecting __//we’re fishing around//__. So let’s __//keep it between us//__. I don’t think you should tell Lexie or Terese.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “I was frustrated at __//not getting my point across//__.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “Sweat dripped down my back. My __//heart raced//__. I’d been touched and I had touched and I was still alive.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “Lexie jumped onto my back, trying to stop me as blood spurted from his nose. Her arms were tight around my neck, her breathing heavy and warm in my ear, her body __//a dead weight//__ on my back.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “So they can survive. And they will thank us for proving it can be done as __//they follow in our footsteps//__. Just __//like the people who followed those first pioneers//__ into the West.”