Stargirl

The following quote is an example of an extended metaphor (think back to our poetry unit): "In the Sonoran Desert there are ponds. You could be standing in the middle of one and not know it, because the ponds are usually dry. nor would you know that inches below your feet, frogs are sleeping, their heartbeats down to once or twice per minute. they like dormant and waiting, these mud frogs, for without water there lives are incomplete, they are not fully themselves. for many months they sleep like this within the earth. and then the rain comes. and a hundred pairs of eyes pop out of the mud, and at night a hundred voices call across the moonlit water" (Spinelli, 40). How does this extended metaphor apply to characters and/or events which occurred in this week's reading? Cite examples from reading to support your explanation.