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Jason Reynolds Use Figurative Language Of Tobacco Turning To Tar

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Jason Reynolds uses figurative language to create tension and discomfort in the atmosphere. ‘’...the dank of tobacco turning into tar. Like it was suddenly just the two of us, me and my dad, both of us apparently losing our minds’’ (pg 226). The metaphorical description of the smoke turning to tar creates a sense of drowning in the expectations of the rules that led to his father’s death; the tar and smoke overpower their better judgment. By using this evocative and attentive way of speaking, it fills the reader with dread and makes them think about how Will could succumb to the tar the same way his father did, his uncle did, and his brother. ‘’...cables and cogs, or whatever, grinding, rubbing metal on metal like a machine moaning but coming

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