Femme fatale (Metaphor)
Didi’s new husband-to-be has everything she has ever dreamt about. The only one problem – which is not an issue for Didi at all – is that he doesn’t like children, especially boys and Did has two. Nobody from the Bone Gap believes that Didi is going to leave her boys and start a new life without them, for she knows how to “wrap men around her little finger” and make them do that she wants. However, this time Didi doesn’t use her gift of persuasion and leaves her sons.
Tiredness (Metaphor)
With his brother not talking to him, Roza’s disappearance and absence of other plants except for mending Mrs. Lonogan’s fence, Finn decided to concentrate on writing essays and doing tests. In spite of the fact that his body “begged him for sleep”, Finn was having none of that. He was determined not to pay attention to his fatigue and go on.
What yourself (Metaphor)
When Roza played cards with Sean and Charlie, she didn’t even try to win, for it was Charlie, who always won all the games. Sean told her, “watch yourself”. He tried to say that if she wanted to win, she had to pay attention to her cards, but she misunderstood him. Being a non-native speaker and not knowing English well, she couldn’t understand what he meant. Roza asked him whether she should “roll her eyes back in head” or what, for it was the only one way to watch oneself.
Dangerous as a shark (Simile)
Charlie Valentine had lots of stories to tell and the majority of them were rather unrealistic. For instance, one of them was about a beautiful woman, who he met while traveling across the country. Everything was wonderful until he woke up and found her trying to gnaw off his arm. She had teeth “as sharp as shark’s”.
Lack of personal space (Simile)
Unlike her babcia, Roza loves a village life. Everyone knows each other, there are no strangers, a little community of people reminds her of family. Unfortunately, her grandmother can’t share this enthusiasm with her. She says that to live in a village is “like living in a beehive”.
Useless (Simile)
Being trapped “in a comma, trapped in a nightmare, trapped in a suburban house in a pile of cracker crumbs”, Roza understands that she is helpless. Her “boneless hands as useless as her naked feet”. The fear of being drugged makes her eat only crackers and only when a feeling of hunger is unbearable. Crackers are not nourishing, so she feels weak and boneless. Her bare feet prevent her from trying to break a window and escaping.
