Cocktail Years

2012, December 21 a.k.a Dooms Day

1776 the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.

5th of November Gye Faukes 

Sound of Thunder (Imagery)

...burning all of Time, all the years and all the parchment calendars, all the hours piled high and set aflame. (extended metaphor)

A touch of the hand and this burning would, on the instant, beautifully reverse itself. Eckels remembered the wording in the advertisements to the letter. Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders,(symbolizes rebirth) the old years, the green years, might leap; roses sweeten the air, white hair turn Irish-black, wrinkles vanish; all, everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, suns rise in western skies and set in glorious easts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, (like Russina dolls) rabbits into hats, (extended simily) all and everything returning to the fresh death, the seed death, (juxtaposition- putting opposite words next to each other) the green death, to the time before the beginning. A touch of a hand might do it, the merest touch of a hand. 

"Unbelievable." Eckels breathed, the light of the Machine on his thin face. "A real Time Machine." He shook his head. "Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States."

"Yes," said the man behind the desk. "We're lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship. There's an anti everything man for you, a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual. People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go live in 1492. Of course it's not our business to conduct Escapes, but to form Safaris. Anyway, Keith's President now. All you got to worry about is-"

"Frankly, yes. We don't want anyone going who'll panic at the first shot. Six Safari leaders were killed last year, and a dozen hunters. We're here to give you the severest thrill a real hunter ever asked for. Traveling you back sixty million years to bag the biggest game in all of Time. Your personal check's still there. Tear it up.(Means to walk away)"Mr. Eckels looked at the check. His fingers twitched.

Types of Imagery

Touch

Hearing

Taste

Smell

Sight

A simily is a comparison using "like" or "as".

A metaphor is transferring the quality of one thing to another.

Qualities of the sun:

Size

Bright

Colors

Heat

Distance from the Earth

Energy

Life span

The flashlight shone with the brighteness of the sun.

My baby cousin has the energy of the sun, she talks with the speed of the sun.

Right now, I have the lifespan of the sun, I am practically immortal.

The Sound Of Thunder: Answers

A Sound of Thunder

1. There is a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus possible government action, on your return.

2. They said that if Deutscher won then they would escape to 1492.

3. First two shots into the eyes, if you can, blind them, and go back into the brain.

4. Eckeles traveled sixty million two thousand and fifty-five years back in time.

5. Its purpose is to keep you from touching this world of the past in any way. 

6. Their clothing and bodies, were sterilized before the journey. 

7. They wear oxygen helmets so they can't introduce their bacteria into an ancient atmosphere.

8. The dinosaurs they can shoot are marked with red paint.

9. Eckeles aimed his rifle playfully.

10. Eckeles says "It".

11. It's marked with red paint.

12. Billings and Kramer throw up after they kill the dinosaur.

13. Travis makes Eckeles put his arms elbow deep in the dead T-Rex's mouth and dig out the bullets.

14. The sign is spelt incorrectly, like this:

TYME SEFARI INC.

SEFARIS TU ANY YEER EN THE PAST.

YU NAIM THE ANIMALL.

WEE TAEK YU THAIR.

YU SHOOT ITT.

15. Thick slime, clods of dirt and a butterfly.

The Landlady Questions: Answers

The Landlady Vocabulary:

Bucking Ham palace looked very swanky.

An antagonist is usually sly and congenial, using the objects/ people around him to suit his selfish needs.

That clerk knew the people were poor yet still he raised the prices of the things in his shop, what a rapacious man!

He stopped at a cross road and stood there, dithering,

"Which way should I go?"

The woman's beauty was compelling.

Every time I see a smoothie I get compulsion to drink it!

The guy that poured orange juice in pot his cereal is very dotty.

My little cousin has a dainty appetite.

The smell of my mothers pumpkin soup was , I couldn't resist coming to the kitchen and tasting it while she wasn't looking.

A strange smell lingered in the cave, but it faded once they got out.

The smell of smoke was emanating from my room.

His nemesis glared at him malevolently, like he was going to kill him.

Naive means someone is inexperienced or shows a lack of judgement.

Gullible is someone who is easily persuaded to believe something.

Since kids are so innocent and unsuspecting they can beguiled by adults.

2. 

Foreshadowing is an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future.

3.

 Foreshadowing is what the author puts into the work, the hints about what is going to happen. Inferences would be the way the reader interprets these hints, when the reader sees ideas in the work that are not expressed directly by the author. 

Foreshadowing and inference

"Left?" she said, arching her brows. "But my dear boy, he never left. He's still here. Mr.Temple is also here. They're on the fourth floor, both of them together". 

"His skin was just like a baby's."

" I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away. Will you have another cup of tea?"

"You did sign the book, didn't you?"

"Oh, yes."

"That's good. Because later on, if I happen to forget what you were called, then I could always come down here and look it up. I still do that almost every day with Mr.Mulholland and Mr..."

"No my dear," she said. "Only you."

4. 

There are 2 types of almonds; bitter and sweet. Bitter almonds smell like cyanide. Cyanide is a poison.

5. 

"The name itself conjure up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies and a powerful smell of kippers in the living room."

" Each word was like a large black eye staring at him though the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay and not to walk away from that house, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across from the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps that led up to it, and reaching for the bell."

6.

"And he realized that this animal had all the time been just as silent and motionless as the parrot."

"The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn't care much for it."

7. 

I think that the story ends too quickly. 

I don't like the ending because I want to know what happens next but then the story ends. So it just 

leaves me on the edge of my seat.

The landlady vocabulary

The Landlady Vocabulary:

Bucking Ham palace looked very swanky.

An antagonist is usually sly and congenial, using the objects/ people around him to suit his selfish needs.

That clerk knew the people were poor yet still he raised the prices of the things in his shop, what a rapacious man!

He stopped at a cross road and stood there, dithering,

"Which way should I go?"

The woman's beauty was compelling.

Every time I see a smoothie I get compulsion to drink it!

The guy that poured orange juice in pot his cereal is very dotty.

My little cousin has a dainty appetite.

The smell of my mothers pumpkin soup was , I couldn't resist coming to the kitchen and tasting it while she wasn't looking.

A strange smell lingered in the cave, but it faded once they got out.

The smell of smoke was emanating from my room.

His nemesis glared at him malevolently, like he was going to kill him.

Naive means someone is inexperienced or shows a lack of judgement.

Gullible is someone who is easily persuaded to believe something.

Since kids are so innocent and unsuspecting they can beguiled by adults.