Day 3 Sentence

"Johnny was conceived in California, carried across the bosom of the American continent and the Atlantic Ocean by his mother, and born in Paris, on November 4, 1929."-Death be not Proud, John Gunther

In this sentence, the author uses parallel structure to let the reader know how much the subject of the story had been through before he was even born. Knowing that the book is about Johnny's struggle with death, I know that the author uses this sentence to foreshadow what is yet to come in Johnny's life.

"Because Dad couldn't resist buying a fresh pineapple from Hawaii before we left, the pineapple was bought at a farmer's market, flown across the South Pacific, and unloaded in Little Rock."-Meagan Poff