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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