Out Stealing Horses week 3 post a

Vocabulary:
Percolator (78): a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.

Flagstone (79): rock, as sandstone or shale, suitable for splitting into flagstones.

Literary Devices:
“It may all be all very well in Dickens, but when you read Dickens you’re reading a long ballad from a vanished world, where everything comes together in the end like an equation, where the balance of what was once disturbed must be restored so the gods can smile again (67).” This is an example of simile because he compares the outcome of the story to an equation.

“The chainsaw is a Jonsered. Not that I think Jonsered is the best brand, but they only use Jonsered here… So Jonsered rules here. And Volvo (69).” This is an example of personification because it is saying that a brand rules.

“They drive like the Greeks do and use the horn instead of braking. Only a few weeks ago, I had to drive into the ditch, the colossal brute thundered past me well into my lane (70).” This is an example of simile and metaphor because he compares the driving to the Greeks using like, and the truck to a colossal brute.
Quote:
“You can learn a lot from films if you have a good memory, watch how people do things and have done them always, but there is not much real work in modern films, there are only ideas. Thin ideas and something they call humour, everything has to be a laugh now. But I hate being entertained, I have no time for it (78).” This quote explains a lot about his personality, and shows that he is intelligent because he has never actually seen a person sharpen a saw, but remembers seeing it in e documentary he watched years ago.

Theme: A possible theme is that one should be self-sufficient, because you cannot always rely on others.