Post B

I think this book is about freedom, and how too much can be a bad thing. Alice lives alone with her Aunt Esme, who is sixteen, because her mother left her when she was young and her dad is in a treatment center for extreme depression. Because she lives with Esme she is introduced to sex and drugs at a very early age. Alice lives a bit of a dangerous life, and is constantly left alone to fend for helself. She is even sent away to a camp Esme isn't sure still even exists. The main reason she sends Alice away is so she can see one of her boyfriends in California. Alice doesn't really have any form of authority in her life. The book is also about self image.

"The Breasts, apparently, operated upon him like two tractor beams, magnetizing his eyes. She felt terrible. She felt she had exposed Superman to kryptonite. Mr. Mann was unable to see her face. He was weakened, hypnotized. He had no idea that she was his daughter's school friend, Alice thought. After a second he managed to break away from the unholy pull of her deformation" (27).

Alice is "developing prematurely" and she considers it a curse. She is only twelve and already has breasts and is five foot six. She gets made fun of by people in her class, and complimented by every man on the street. Self image is a very important thing for Alice, she wishes she could just be a little girl like everyone else. It is a large part of her life.

Post A

"He'd been living in the Bin for months, but he didn't ever seem to feel at ease there. This, too, Alice found depressing. She could envision him vanishing and someone else's father walking into Cell B and replacing him" (31).

I think this quote shows that Alice hates her father being in the Bin. He went there to kind of get away from his family, and she feels that all it is doing is simply killing him slowly. He seems to have no expression anymore, no happiness. He is slowly fading away.

Gesticulating (16) - making gestures while talking.

Ominous (21) - foreboding or foreshadowing evil.

When Alice meets J.D (Aunt Esme's drug dealer), she is shy and talks about how she feels different about him. She doesn't stay with him for more than ten minutes, but she can't stop thinking about him. I beleive this is an example of foreshadowing because I am positive he will have an important role in the book later on, maybe an important role with Alice.

"Alice had seen him take one of the yellow pills that resembled her daily vitamins as soon he'd walked into the Dollhouse" (1). This is a metaphor because it compares one object to another.

"They were under a spell- sleepwalking, drugged, or hypnotized" (26). This is a similie, because they really weren't any of the three. They were just "dead looking".