Fast Food Figurative Language

Stressful situations can change the way a family works together and feels about one another. Many families in the story went from loving each other in the beginning to trying to kill each other for food throughout the story. A lot of the families killed each other for food and there were some families that left each other to have a better life or to just give up. This theme was a big theme through the story and it was well developed through tone, setting, and figurative language. The tone of this story was very sad but also calm and relieved. Especially for the families and all they had to do to go through all the harsh things they had to do in the concentration camps. Most of the families split apart forever and some of the people in the

The author added some good imagery in the story to give the reader a better picture of what the author was trying to explain. The story was filled with figurative language, has a good tone, and a very good setting and with all those three things the author developed a really good theme. Just like on pg. 91 it states, “...his son had seen him losing ground, sliding back to the rear of the column. He had seen him. And he had continued to run in front, letting the distance between them become greater. A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father? He had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival.” This explains how when the kids father started falling out the kid didn’t care and he kept on running without worrying about his father. That was an example of imagery because the author gave us a pretty good description on what happened in that moment. That is how the theme was well developed throughout the story with tone, setting, and figurative