Response #5 from Elsa

Lots, lots and lots of illuminated things.
The things I have seen since I have been in Astoria could fill a book or a dream.p187
a herd of brothers hyperbole p189
The temperature dropped and the Columbia has frozen up like a sheet of glass.p198 simile
I,August Olson,will lynch Captain Jordon and fillet him like a salmon.p200 simile
They're like dumb cows who won't come in during a snowstorm,who just stand there till they're dead from the cold.p200 simile
As we run down the streets, my heart beats faster and faster, I think it will explode.p201 hyperbole
I say, Emma, you must be crazy as a lunatic if you're thinking of kissing a boy.p207 simile
Like how?she says, wrinkling her nose just like Aunt Alice.p208 simile
She is so polite, she really is like a miniature Aunt Alice.p209 simile
Until then, we have to keep our lips sealed.p211
Otto wears pajama pants like the Chinamen I've seen down at the docks.p212 simile
He gets to climb the high masts and Ed Grady says that Wilbert moves faster than the monkey's he's seen climbing the trees in the jungles of Africa.p215 hyperbole
They leave me standing there like a porcupine while they walk around me and adjust this hem and that tuck and nip the waist in just a bit tighter here and there.p217 simile
Wilbert's eyes just about fall out of his head when he sees her walking down the stairs in her fine yellow dress; she looks a picture to be sure.p218 hyperbole
More of the food is ending up on my dress than in my belly.p222 hyperbole
rapscallions; a disreputable person rascal or rogue.p233
Mamma just blushes, like a girl really, like one of those girls who used to chase Matti.p241 simile
I grab Bosie by the piece of rope around his neck and swim as hard as I can to the bank, but the logs are coming fast as Salmon.p245 simile
Then all of a sudden, I see that Wilbert has climbed the tree on the bank as fast as a monkey, and he swings down from a branch and hoists me up and Bosie too, and when I look down I can't see any water at all only logs crashing down the Nasel.p245 simile
like an angry waterfall p246 simile
Pappa reaches us first and his face is as dark as thunder.p246 hyperbole
I was the only May Amelia Jackson they had.p247

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Responce # 5

Part five of "Our Only May Amelia" tells about May Amelia's grandmother dieing and being buried on The Smith Island. It also tells about Amelia finding out that her brother Matti wasn't shanghaied after all he ran away to live with his Irish girl friend in Astoria. Part five also talks about these Geological references...

List of Geological references from pages 188,194,195,196,198,214,215,221,237,242,245
San Francisco
Seattle
Astoria
Boston
Nova Scotia
Nasel
China
Cape Horn
Baby Island
Smith Island
Finland
Knappton
The Orient
Africa
Columbia River
Wind is Blowing
Daffodils
Crocuses

Response #2 (late)

    May Amelia is the only girl to be born on the Nasel River for many years, in a way, she is a miracle. She  has eight brothers, and the only other girls in the town are already women, like May Amelia's mother. May's mother is going to have another baby, and May hopes it is a girl, so she has someone to relate to.

    May wants to be able to do the things a boy is allowed to do, like go to the logging camp.

May's family have a dog named Bosie. May's brother Kaarlo is not really her brother he is the child of some long-lost relatives, and he is mean to May. May's Aunt Alice comes over and brings treats. May Amelia helps count all the sheep.  Isaiah, one of May's brothers, loves the sheep and names them after people that live near them. A sheep is named after a neighbor named Mrs. Peterson, and the sheep is hurt. Isaiah calls in his family to see the hurt sheep but they misunderstand and think they mean the neighbor is hurt. May gets caught in a bear trap on Baby Island, and some Indians help untrap her and bring her home.


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Response #4 from Elsa

You won't believe how many more illuminated things.
small and pink like little Moses in the rush cradle, Simile p126
I once heard a cougar cry like a baby calling for its mother. simile p126
And I imagine we look like supper. simile p127
he has not moved an inch, he is frozen with fear, hyperbole p127
The cougar is still growling on the bank, any minute it will be on the bridge and it will be good-bye May Amelia Hello supper unless I do something.p127
like a sack of flour, barreling across the bridge. simile p128
Well then, I say, I reckon it's a Darn Good Thing I'm not a Proper Young Lady or you'd be that cougars supper right about now.p129
Wilbert says there are some days that are so bad there's no mending them.p 131

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Responce #4

Part four of "Our Only May Amelia" tells about May's brother Matti disappearing in Astoria. It also tells about her baby sister dieing and May Amelia being so sad her and her brother Wilbert go to live with their Aunt and Uncle. Part four also talks about these geological references...
List of references from pages 125,126,133,141,143,147,149,157,162,165,180 and 188

• Nasel River


• Columbia River


• Nova Scotia


• Astoria


• Smith Island


• Baby Island


• Seattle


• San Francisco


• Fierce wind


• Thick fog


• Rain


• Cold in November


• Freezing cold in the winter


• Cougar


• Raccoon


• Bears


• Cows


• Fish