The+Compound+-+Epilogue

    Epilogue  Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”  Will and Testament “ He also took the opportunity to reiterate[|*] the intricacies of my father’s will, read six years before upon his “death,” which left control of the company to Phil until Eddy, the __sole heir__, turned twenty-five.” the Press  “Of course, the media involved weren’t all legitimate press. The tabloids had a field day with the available facts. ”

Big Island  “We were on a chartered jet bound for the Big Island and Gram’s house. Luckily, through all the chaos, no pictures of us ever emerged, so people weren’t recognizing us on the street. ”

Spokane  “Medical personnel flew Mom to the hospital in Spokane where she had our little brother, Finnegan. ” <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;">[|Bengay] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|abducted by aliens] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|press][| conference] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|basket case] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">[|Tums] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">[|postal service]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">[|fire sirens]

<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;">“I assumed that the rest of us turning up alive would put a few kinks in Phil’s plan, but that would remain to be seen.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Phil did a few interviews, speaking officially for the company. He stated how emphatically joyful he was that we were all alive and how sad that Rex Yanakakis, brilliant founder of YK Industries, had not been found with us. Lying dirtbag. ” <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “The rescue is becoming a blur. I had been operating on adrenaline, and reuniting with Eddy had shut everything down, made me a basket case”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “Gram encircled me with her ample arms and smothered me with kisses that left me reeking of White Shoulders and Bengay. Nothing ever smelled so good to me.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “Els stood behind her, tinier than I remembered. I towered over her by more than a foot.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “veryone thought Dad had been killed in an RV fire with the rest of us six years ago. Although the rest of us showing up alive shot some major holes in that story, ”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “ I didn’t feel as alien as I’d expected. The world had gone on without us, but we hadn’t been left behind.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “Some papers even took the angle that the rest of us had gone to live there without him and he’d been searching for us in the RV when he was killed. Crazy, what those rags came up with.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “She conceded that she would allow Phil to run the company for now, but anticipated that she and her two oldest sons would soon be major players in the world of YK Industries.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “Every passing day in the sunshine and salt water slightly dulls the fear. I don’t know if there’s enough blue sky or waves in the world to push me toward anything resembling forgiveness, let alone a feeling of security. ”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “ I turn and notice a small bit of white in the sand a few steps behind me.... A Tums wrapper. More accurately, a half-empty roll, which was why it hadn’t blown away.”