The+Compound+-+Chapter+12

 Chapter 12   Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”   holed up “I CALMED MYSELF DOWN, CLEANED MYSELF UP, AND __HOLED up in my room__. I stayed there the rest of the day. ”

 Chutes and Ladders “He still looked up at me. “Want to play //__Chutes and Ladders__//?”

   Russian Nesting Dolls  “He held up a painted figure of an intricately carved clown. Great. It had to be a clown. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">He removed the top, which revealed another smaller figure inside the first. “Oh, they’re __**nesting dolls**__.”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">the civilized world <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“I’d avoided enough: facin [|g] life without Eddy and Gram, surviving the worst disaste[|r] to hit the civilized world. ”

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px;">Legos <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“Lucas pulled on my shirt. “We can do Legos now.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Fact of Life

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“Were we so removed from the world of before that we would actually consider such things to be commonplace?Mundan[|e]? Another fact of life?

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> God forbid: not immora[|l]?” <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Right and Wrong <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;">“I had never made a point of seeking out right and wrong. ” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"> <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: right;"><span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">[|commonplace] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">[|mundane]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">[|repugnant]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">[|mystery]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">[|immoral]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">[|godless]  <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: right;">

<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;"> <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">“I’d become a __//master at denial//__.”

“//__How stupid is that?__// We have //__all the time in the world, years and years. Yet it’s all so urgent__//.”

“I tried to make my voice sound as kind as possible, __//not exactly a practiced skill//__ of mine.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “I sometimes wondered if the __//staleness of our existence//__ would slowly __//suffocate us//__.”

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;"> “I resisted the urge to let my hair down and __//hide from the truth//__.”

"Curious fascination overcame the //__knot in my stomach__//.”

“I’d been __//a practicing selfish worm//__ for so long. Basically my entire life.”

“ We still needed to __//live by rules//__ of the old world, even if those rules __didn’t exist anymore__. They were //__a line that could not be crossed__//. For the first time that I could remember, I was //__going to take a stand__//.”