Post A2

*Vocab*
1. solace (99): comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble
2. inept (99): generally awkward or clumsy; haplessly incompetent

*Figurative Language*
1. "An arraignment at a courthouse fit like a Band-Aid over a wound that really needed a tourniquet" (114). This is a simile because it uses the word like to compare the arraignment and Band-Aid.
2. "Closure, apparently, meant that she was supposed to realize that losing a normal was something you got over, like losing a soccer game or a favorite T-shirt" (117). This is a simile because it uses the word like to compare closure with losing a soccer game or a T-shirt.
3. "You could divide by zero; it felt like a canyon where your heart used to be" (129). This is a simile because it uses like to compare a canyon with where your heart used to be.

*Quote*
"Everyone wants their kid to grow up and go to Harvard or be a quarterback for the Patriots. No one ever looks at their baby and thinks, Oh, I hope my kid grows up and becomes a freak. I hope he gets to school every day and prays he won't catch anyone's attention. But you know what? Kids grow up like that every single day" (136). The importance of this quote is that Peter is the one who said it and it's how he feels he grew up. He was known as the freak and he doesn't think his parents care, where as everybody else's parents want their kids to be perfect. And, it was hard for him to control himself after so many years of being picked on.

*Theme*
Another theme that is emerging is to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes because Peter wants people to know what it feels like to be him and how difficult it is.