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".