Middlesex: #4: A

::VOCAB::

Ingots(96)- a mold in which metal is cast

Substrata(96)- an underlying support : foundation: as a: substance that is a permanent subject of qualities or phenomena

::ANALYSIS::

“It was like a grove of trees, as if the Rouge’s eight main smokestacks had sown seed to the wind, and now ten or twenty or fifty smaller trunks were sprouting up in the infertile soil around the plant.”(95) This is an example of figurative language because it is a simile while comparing the Rouge’s smokestacks to a grove of trees.

“This once-divided city reminds me of myself. My struggle for unification, for Einheit.”(106) This is an example of figurative language because it is a metaphor while comparing the speaker’s inner division to that of Berlin’s past.

“The Packard, as gracefully as an elephant standing on its front legs, flips up onto its grille.” (125) This is an example of figurative language because it is a simile while comparing the Packard’s flips to an elephant standing on its front legs.

::QUOTE::
“The simultaneous Fertilization had occurred in the early morning hours of March 24,1923, in separate, vertical bedrooms, after a night out at the theater.”(107) I found it interesting how to such a length the author would go to specify the process of which her father was conceived. To many this type of accuracy and details would seem unnecessary and awkward. How odd of a conversation would that be for a grandchild to ask her/his grandparent about the night of fertilization for her father?