Post A Week 4 Suite Francaise

Vocabulary:
circuitous: marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct, deviating from a straight course.

tacit: understood without being openly expressed; implied

Literary Terms:
There is symbolism in the quote "Between the leaves faded by the burning sun, you could see thier pale faces, weary, angry, and exausted." (50) The soldiers are like the leaves, thier confidence has faded as the war has proceded.

"Their flesh, beneath the bluish, pearly skin, had been as pink as a small childs." (63) This is an example of a simile because he is comparing a fish to a child using the word as.

"The man was small and scrawny, with a big forehead and enormus eyes, a weak mouth and a little weasely chin." (65) This is an example of imagry because i can see the mans face very vividly in my mind.

Quote:
"The faint purfume of strwberries wafted up now and then through the petrol fumes and smoke. The cars inched torward a bridge. Women were calmly washing thier clothes in the river. The horror and strangenss of recent events were softened by these images of peace. Far away, a windmill turned it's wheel." (62) This quote is significant because it shows the calmness and mental tranquillity one can recieve from everday events when one's entire world has been torn apart.

Theme: A theme for this novel is that one should always be kind to others because one never knows the consequences they will suffer from the uncalled for hatred they show to others.