Middlesex: #5: A

::VOCAB::
Camshaft (97) -a shaft to which a cam is fastened or of which a cam forms an integral part
Chassis (97)- the supporting frame of a structure (as an automobile or television)

::ANALYSIS::
“Just like ice, lives crack, too.”(125) This is an example of figurative language because the author uses like to compare the cracking ice to the shattering lives too.

“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 uses as to compare a car’s motions to that of an elephant’s.

“Like a cleaning lady working in Grosse Pointe, she came and went by the back door”(149) This again another example of a simile, with the use of “like” to compare Desdemona’s actions to that of a cleaning lady.

::QUOTE::
“The Silk Room: a description is in order. (So much happened in that fifteen-by-twenty-foot space: God spoke; my grandmother renounced her race; creation was explained; and that’s just for starters.)”(151) I thought this quote was very interesting in that it should what really happened in Desdemona’s silk room. Before in the novel, the only showed the outline of the silk room stories.