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The Compound - Chapters Chapter 3 Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”

Woody Allen “He was watching a Woody Allen movie. I thought they were so stupid, but he would sit there for hours, laughing out loud. Maybe it was the combination of the two, Woody Allen’s humor that I didn’t get, along with my dad’s bizarre laugh, but I just could not deal. I turned back the other way.” Hundred Acre Wood

 “ Terese’s room....was still done up like the Hundred Acre Woods from Winnie the Pooh; her bed was still a giant honey pot.”

Monet

“Mom’s favorite Monet hung on the wall over the headboard. It was the original, of course. I wondered if a replica hung on the wall of this bedroom.”

Puget Sound “A ways down the hall was my parents' room. We weren't allowed in, although I’d caught a glance one time, and it looked to be an exact replica of the one in our mansion on Puget Sound. ”

Cap'n Crunch

“He probably would have had a fit if he knew rowdy kids were eating their Cap’n Crunch on his expensive Egyptian linens.”   <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">Paddington Bear <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">Chronicles of Narnia <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">Roald Dahl <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">Peter Pan  <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">The Hobbit

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Terese read every piece of British children’s literature she could find. When she was younger, it had been Paddington Bear and Winnie the Pooh. Later it was The Chronicles of Narnia and everything by Roald Dahl. Peter Pan was her favorite.” <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“She saw the Compound as never-never land, a place where she would never have to grow up. Last time I’d seen her with a book, it had been The Hobbit, so maybe she finally decided to <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">move on. ”  <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Cold Mountain <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Lexie read a lot of lengthy epic stories. She read Cold Mountain at least a dozen times. I finally got it away from her long enough to see what was so great about it. For a novel of the Civil War it was okay, but the ending was so depressing.”

<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 40px;">Civil War

<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 40px;">Dostoyevsky <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“My routine was to pick authors and read every book they’d written. The entire previous spring I had spent many dreary hours with Dostoyevsky.” <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 40px;">Stephen King <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“ Stephen King was my current read. ”



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<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;">“The Compound itself must have taken years to build. I never asked for the details. It would be like a lion asking about who built his cage. ”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“The air smelled of oranges, almost too much so. I’d expected the room to smell musty, like a museum. I’d forgotten that it was connected to the same ventilation system as the rest of the Compound. ”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“As I looked around that room, so much like mine had been, I felt strange, like I’d traveled back in time.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“I walked quickly past the next door, as I always did.....The rooms went on and on, like berries on a bush. ”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“Eddy and I had lived on the Internet, playing online games, instant messaging our friends. We even IM’ed each other at night, even though we were separated by only a bedroom wall.”

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