"Spider Kelly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter they weighed one hundred and five or two hundreded and five pounds," [page 1].
I have found many literary devices in this novel, but they do not all have enough to write about to make them separate entries, so I will most likely be combining them.
The above quote is a very interesting simile to me because this boxing coach is only mentioned in the first few paragraphs of the first chapter, yet he seems to have gained many people's respect. He comes off as a man kind of like the fighting coach in the movie Never Back Down who is very well respected and successful. It is even more interesting that Spider Kelly taught Robert Cohn how to box because he is known for raising respectable men and Cohn has not been portrayed as respectable whatsoever.
"...and the bulls tear in at the steers and the steers run around like old maids trying to quiet them down," [page 138]
This is figurative language that speaks of how the bullfighting system works with the picadors, bulls, and steer. I was shocked at how nonchalant the main characters acted when they watched numerous men killed by bulls. It reminds me of gladiator fights in coliseums, except those were man vs. man while these fights are man vs. bull. I honestly don't have an interest in the bullfighting sequences that were explained in this book. I'm all for non-brutality here.
I have found many literary devices in this novel, but they do not all have enough to write about to make them separate entries, so I will most likely be combining them.
The above quote is a very interesting simile to me because this boxing coach is only mentioned in the first few paragraphs of the first chapter, yet he seems to have gained many people's respect. He comes off as a man kind of like the fighting coach in the movie Never Back Down who is very well respected and successful. It is even more interesting that Spider Kelly taught Robert Cohn how to box because he is known for raising respectable men and Cohn has not been portrayed as respectable whatsoever.
"...and the bulls tear in at the steers and the steers run around like old maids trying to quiet them down," [page 138]
This is figurative language that speaks of how the bullfighting system works with the picadors, bulls, and steer. I was shocked at how nonchalant the main characters acted when they watched numerous men killed by bulls. It reminds me of gladiator fights in coliseums, except those were man vs. man while these fights are man vs. bull. I honestly don't have an interest in the bullfighting sequences that were explained in this book. I'm all for non-brutality here.
August 22, 2010 at 11:00 PM
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