The+Compound+-+Chapter+18

    Chapter 18 All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”  Allusions and other References  emergency C-section “Even on bed rest, there was a chance it could have been bad enough that they would have to do an emergency C-section. That’s what they told me. ”  linen closet “You’re bleeding.” I grabbed some extra sheets and towels from the linen closet and spread them under her on the bed as best as I could.



propped up

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">She lay propped up on some pillows, holding her stomach. “Ohhhh.” Her face was pale.”

<span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">the last person <span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> I expected  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“Lexie looked at me. “And Eli will figure out how to get us out of here.” S<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">he the last person I expected to be confident in my abilities as a savior.

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

<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;">[|confident] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|savior] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|sensation] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|sodium nitroprusside]

<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;">“My mind was whirling. A mystery inside. So familiar. I’d heard that recently. But where? And when? A mystery inside.Those words ate me up. ”


 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Mom stared at the ceiling. “This puts a kink in things.”


 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“No, we’ll take care of everything, really. You need to lie still.”


 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“they recommended that Terese be my last baby.” I felt my heart in my throat. “Did Dad know that?”


 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Normal again, to me, would be to touch someone, without having to summon up courage.”


 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“ I did not have all the time in the world.”