The book I am reading is Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile by James Patterson. In chapters 77 and 79, the author uses similes. In chapter 77, the Kidd family have an obstacle, Nathan Collier, who is their treasure hunting rival. Tommy is the driving the Jeep that they received from a man named Dumaka, and he speeds up and swerves around the eighteen-wheeler truck. Then the narrator states, “ We shot up the road like a cheetah with a rocket strapped on its back “ (372). The author is using a simile by comparing two things using “like” . He compares the the speed of their vehicle to the speed of a cheetah with a rocket strapped on its back. The author uses this simile because he wants to emphasize how fast they were going, by using the fastest land animal and something that boosts up your speed. In chapter 79, The Kidd family are captured by African pirates and are giving an explanation of how their parents died. Bick says, “ Why, the waves were as tall as mountains that night, the winds as fierce as a lion…” (379). The author uses these similes to show how crazy and bad the storm that killed the Kidds’ parents was. This time, the author uses the term “as” instead of “like”.
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The book I am reading is Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile by James Patterson. The Kidd family is on their quest to find the great treasure at King Solomon’s Mines in Africa. The Kidd siblings are in a jungle following a map that Storm had created from memory. They encounter another person who’s also looking for the Mines named Guy Dubonnet Merck. This scene is important because it creates a turning point in the story because the siblings have been defeated by Merck as stated in the text. “But voilà! I have finally defeated you, you foolish children!” (330). This complicates the situation because they were only a mere five miles away from their goal. The kids react as if they were outsmarted, but Storm’s map turned out to be a fake one and it actually came from a book called King Solomon’s Mines by Rider Haggard. So, Storm is just going to give up and give the map to Merck when Tommy says, “you would just give Guy Dubonnet Merck the sixty trillion dollars’ worth of diamonds buried inside the treasure pit barely five miles up the road from where we are standing right now?” (331). This shows how they are pretending to act like if it was really a real map and how determined they are to fool Merck. This part of the story takes place in the Rising Action. The Kidd family are a clever group of people since they can fool a grown man, considering the fact that Tommy, who is the oldest, is only seventeen years of age.
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