Home Fire
What are the some of the ways Aneeka feels and acts in grief in Chapter Seven? What are some of the metaphors she uses? List at least three.
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Grief is wearing the same shirt, peeling stars off the ceiling and leaving them on her fingers. Grief is the paradoxes of being bad-tempered and kind, seeing nothing and everything, being big like an eagle and small like a porcupine, needing company and solitude, wanting to remember and forget, raging and whimpering, compressing and contracting time, hunger, numbness, lack of sound, and feeling like blades. She paints grief as a shape-shifter and invisible. Student may describe any or several of the above.