The+Compound+-+Chapter+6

  Chapter 6  Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”  Holstein "We had five Holsteins, all with suckling calves. ”

working stiff nuclear winter  “Could one of the workers have sabotaged the food supply?....An envious working stiff who hated the thought of his own family dying while the Yanakakis clan lived out __nuclear winter__ in luxury?”

MREs <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “Of course there was a safety net: MREs, meals ready to eat. ”

<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">taken for granted <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“I stayed in bed and daydreamed, as I often did, about things I used to take for granted. The smell of Cocoa after her bath, and the way she tore around the house, rolling on every carpet in sight, grunting. ”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <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;">[|dwindle] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|produce] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|poultry] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|livestock] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|malfunction] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|flank] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|spigot] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[| scurvy] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;"> [| rickets] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;"> [| Malnutrition] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;"> [| ailments] __<span style="color: #2a6496; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|edible/inedible] __

<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;"> “Every day, wishing I could //__worm my way out__// of it, I grudgingly held my breath as I scooped up their manure and hauled it to one of the incinerators.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“Meals had become scientific, //__every bite like a mathematical equation__//, each integer blending together to create an adequate sum, product, solution. This bite and that equaled proper nutrition.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“We wouldn’t starve as long as the honey and wheat lasted. Malnutrition could become an issue, inviting related ailments such as scurvy and rickets. //__Nice__//.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> I was surprised they left out: Place unopened pouch on ground and //__pee on it__//.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> “He wasn’t that up on hanging out with the livestock. His nose wrinkled the minute he walked in the room, and his __//eyes were glued to the ground//__ as he took ginger steps around any dirt I might have missed when I cleaned up, even though he wore knee-high muck boots."
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">“Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not much chance of that down here.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Place unopened pouch inside your shirt, allow your body temperature to warm your MRE.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“I stayed in bed and daydreamed, as I often did, about things I used to take for granted. The smell of Cocoa after her bath, and the way she tore around the house, rolling on every carpet in sight, grunting. I felt her then, her body on top of my feet, her warmth seeping through the covers. She was my __//phantom limb//__.”