Middlesex: #3: A

::VOCAB::

Aphrodisiac (72)- an agent (as a food or drug) that arouses or is held to arouse sexual desire

Hypochondria (68)- extreme depression of mind or spirits often centered on imaginary physical ailments

::ANALYSIS::

“millinery girls as fan dancers”(68) This is an example of figurative language because it is a simile. The author shows the millinery girls similarities to that of fan dancers.

“Europe and Asia Minor were dead” (68) This is an example of personification, because it gives the areas, Europe and Asia Minor, the ability to die. This description showed how to Desdemona, her past (Europe and Asia Minor) were behind her.

“To my grandparents Detroit was like one big Koza Han during cocoon season.”(88)This example of figurative language showed how Lefty and Desdemona saw some aspects of their past in their future.

::QUOTE::

“According to Dr. Luce, the gene first appeared in my bloodline sometime around 1750, in the body of one Penelope Evangelatos, my great-grandmother to the ninth power.”(71) This quote from Middlesex shows the randomness of her/his disorder. I found it amazing that over those hundreds of years that only the speaker caught this genetic disorder.