Outside Reading - Week 5, Post A

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

VOCAB
-grievous(94)- causing grief or great sorrow
-decanted(99)- To pour (a liquid) from one container into another
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
1. "[...]'Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth'"(94). This is repetition, used to force the virtue of honesty into the reader's head.
2. "It's the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever" (94). This is a metaphor for divorce and the emotional recovery after a divorce, being compared to a roller coaster track.
3. "But what if [...]? What if [...]? Where [....]? How [...]? But what if [...]? What [...]?" (95). This is a series of questions about Liz's life that could be asked of any one's life that is reading the memoir. It is a style technique used so that the reader can easily relate to the author's situation in life.
QUOTE
"Ah, she left her marriage in order to preserve her art"(95). Liz is using this as a justification of why she got a divorce. She was insecure about what others thought of her for leaving her husband, and it bothered her, so she is making things up in her head to justify her paranoia.
THEME
I am seeing the theme of independence continue to strengthen.