Response #3 from Elsa

Even more lluminated things!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's no accounting for luck, especially luck in getting brothers.p63
Wilbert says Ignore her May,she must be desperate is she's chasing after Matti like a cat in heat.p64 simile
Pappa says the Irish are like locusts.p65 simile
Uncle Aarno looks like Pappa, only older and kinder, even though he is really younger.p73
Ladies and princesses don't get to have adventures because they get left behind.p75
Your mother would have my hide if I sent you home in weather like this.p77
the shadows of the trees are dancing against the windows and look like ghosts.p80 simile
Mamma bends her head, and her hair falls over her slender neck like a waterfall on the Nasel, hiding her face.p83 simile
Kaarlo looks full of rage and sadness and suddenly pushes back his chair and runs out of the room as if a demon is on his tail.p84 simile
Wendell says there's no mending a torn heart, but he wishes he could.p85
You got a pack of brothers to look after you here.p86 hyperbole
Let's sit down and eat this pie your ma made for us, Mr.Clayton says, as if Kaarlo stacking wood by his fireplace was an every day occurrence.p88
I hang my head like Bosie when he's been whupped.p88 simile
He gives me a ghost of a smile.p89 hyperbole
My grandmother does not think I am A Miracle.p91
Wilbert tells me my Grandmother Patience was poorly maned.p92
When Grandmother Patience arrives she looks at Mamma real hard, from the top of her head to her big belly, looks her up and down like she's looking at a cow.p92-93 simile
This room won't do at all, I'll take the one at the far end of the hall, she says like she is the queen.p94 simile
A Living Misery hyperbole p94
Well children, she says, I suspect we're in for a real storm.p95 hyperbole
My poor brothers are gonna be carting and carrying for the rest of their days.p95 hyperbole
Nah, he whispers back, she's stuck here like a cow in the tidelands.p98 simile
A big old bruise the size of a hens egg p98 simile
I know in the bible it is a sin to wish for someone's death but I cannot help but wish that Grandmother Patience would simply go ahead and die and leave us all in peace.p99
For every evil god sends to me he sends an angel and I know for certain that Wilbert is my guardian angel.p100
My blood in boiling like tea water p103 simile
Bosie you sure are a dumb dog, Wilbert says.102
Wilbert complained this morning at breakfast that my chattering teeth kept him up half the night.p105 hyperbole
I just lie there, still as a mouse.p106 simile
it smells so fine, like an open feel, or the breeze blowing of the Nasel.p106 simile
I will travel to faraway places like china and whatnot.p110
Well I sure ain't no Proper Young Lady Miss McEwing, you can ask any of my brothers here.p111
Have you gone crazy May? he says.p115
It's a fierce autumm day, the kind that lets you know that winter is just around the corner.p122
That fogs as thick as soup, Wilbert says.p124 simile
We are nearly halfway across the bridge when Lonny, who has been quiet the whole way says, I hear a baby crying.p125