THOTS: 240-300

"Without her scandalous mane of hair and her sphinx eyes, she looked fifteen. To Jaime, her vulnerability was more seductive than anything that had attracted him before. He felt twice as large, twice as heavy, and a thousand times stronger, but he knew he was defeated from the start because of his tenderness he felt and his desire to protect her. He cursed his invincible sentimentality and tried to see her as his brothers lover, a woman on whom he had just performed an abortion, but he immediately realized how impossible that was and surrendered to the pleasure and suffering of loving her."(242)

Context: This is after Jaime performs an abortion on Amanda, Nicolas girlfriend.

Connecting Idea: This passage deals with the mood of lust and pleasure but also forbidden love.

1. This starting sentence deals with metaphors. The metaphors used in this sentence are used to convey the lust Jaime has for Amanda,"scandalous mane of hair and her sphinx eyes" The scandalous mane of hair and sphinx eyes are both characteristics of sexual like features which appeals to a mans sense of lust for another woman.

2. This next sentence does not display any literary devices within it. This sentence was written primarily for the reason of conveying lust and pleasure that Jaime has for Amanda after he gives her the abortion. This connects to the main idea cause of his lust towards her vulnerability.

3. The following sentence uses anaphora within it. Anaphora is used to convey the intensity of the power this woman has over Jaime, a man that is bigger and stronger than she is. This connects back to the main idea due to the love that Jaime has for Amanda but he knows that she is in a relationship with his brother.

4. This final sentence and rather long sentence deals with metaphor's and personification. The metaphor "He cursed his invincible sentimentality" means that he is upset with his strong sense of sentimentality towards his brothers girlfriend, Amanda. The personification used in the sentence "surrendered to the pleasure and suffering of loving her" connects back alongside with the metaphor to the main idea of lust and pleaure but also forbidden love due to him surrendered to the pleasure and also suffering of loving her.

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