Middlesex: #7: A

::VOCAB::

Sultan(159)- a king or sovereign especially of a Muslim state

Pecuniary(159)- consisting of or measured in money

::ANALYSIS::

“Or had guilt begun to infect him, too, so that to distract himself from the thing he’d done he ended up with these Mabels and Lucies and Doloreses?”(159) This is an example of a metaphor because it comes his nude models to that of Mabels and Lucies and Doloreses.

“It’s hard to express the excitement such phrases instilled in a kid like me from the cultural sticks. “(454) Cal here uses a simile to compare his childhood to that of being raised in the “cultural sticks”

“Not long after the Prophet’s disappearance, my grandmother underwent a fairly novel medical procedure.”(165) This is an example of a metaphor because the author uses the term “a fairly novel medical procedure”, to describe getting her body to never have babies ever again.

::QUOTE::

“Why you leave your wife and child? What’s the matter with you?” “My only responsibility is to my people.”(164) I thought that this quote was interesting in that Desdemona is finally standing up for her cousin and how poorly her ex-relative treated her family. It was very shocking when the “Fard” left his daughter and wife to live as a messenger of god.