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Journal One: Literary Devices from Flight BehaviorPages 132-133
Metaphor:Hester’s face was the customary knot of anger and disapproval, but the grayeyes seemed to be coming from somewhere else, two pools of expectation.
This metaphor has to do with themom in law, Hester.She’s alwayshard on her son’s wife, Dellarobia, but there is a shift between the two womenat this point in the book because Hester has a secret that is making her feelvulnerable.This is your firstreal clue that something is going to change between the two women, and thatHester’s power over Dellarobia may wain.Near the end of the book, Dellarobia figures out the secret and twowomen are freed: Hester and herself.
Dipping into the vernacular:“King Billies”
Tennessee people call monarchbutterflies “King Billies.”Thisis a reference to an English monarch (get it? monarch).From the book Christy, I learnedthat the people of the Appalachians are tied, especially in the cadences oftheir language, to our English heritage.The way they talk and the expressions they use are sometimes utterlysurprising because they are using terms that English people use, or used touse, but are not heard anywhere else in America.Experts suspect that the clannish lifestyle of theinhabitants of the Appalachians, cut off from others by those very mountains,preserved some of these archaic patterns.In Christy, sometimes Shakespeare would show up in common, everyday conversation, utterly unconsciously.Common Name: MonarchButterfly, Milkweed Butterfly, King Billy (The name Monarch isprobably related to the eponymous appellation 'King Billy' used byCanadians; the butterfly has the black and orange colors associated withWilliam of Orange, Coregent with Mary after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 andthe hero of Protestant England for his victory over the Catholic James II atthe Battle of the Boyne).
http://www.sierrapotomac.org/W_Needham/MonarchButterfly_051002.htm
Simile:Dellarobia utterly lost her bearings, sputtering inside herself like a car outof gas.
This is a great way to conveyDellarobia’s frustration with Hester and her puzzled reaction to this shift intheir relationship.Plus, it’sperfect for Dellarobia, who probably knows all too well what a car running outof gas sounds like.
Metaphor: Thevalley of lights, the boughs of orange flame.
This is the central metaphor forthe book.The main character,Dellarobia, is on her way to commit adultery (with a guy who later hits on herbest friend) but the valley of flame stops her in her tracks.She isn’t sure what she’s seeing, butshe goes ahead and heads home because the miracle makes her feel too close toGod to be sinning in front of Him, too (she’s alluding to the story of Mosesand the burning bush—could God be talking to her like He did to Moses?).See Link toScience and Religion.Later,she realizes that these butterflies are a message to society, to stop damagingthe environment, just as they were a message to her to turn around and gohome.This doesn’t keep her withher husband, but it does help her find a better way to leave him, just as wemust find a better way to protect the environment.This is a great link to whatBarbara Kingsolver says about the environment and why she wrote this book: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/11/08/barbara-kingsolver-on-flight-behavior-climate-change-and-the-end-of-doubt/
Allusion:Hester’s face fell slack with gratitude, like the faces of the women they’dseen on TV last week when their men were finally saved from a minedisaster.
I wonder if this is the Chile disasteror if this is a local disaster? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Copiapó_mining_accident
King Billy Butterfly
The book was published in 2012, soI think perhaps this is a reference to Chile disaster.But, there is coal mining in the regionnot too far from where they live, so that would not have been out of thepossibility, either.