Authors Statement

By Killian Heffernan

In the vignettes that I have written. Two literary devices that I have used are similes and metaphors. In my first vignette I talked about a time where I started to run out of time. My metaphor was “Time flies by when you're having fun” ([Heffernan] [Time]). My simile was, “She was shocked, her face turned pale like a ghost”([Heffernan] [Time]). I had many similes and metaphors but these are the two that stood out for me. When talking about the “time flying”, I was relating to how I forgot that I had an exam coming up. Then when I asked my mom about it, I had an idea of putting in a simile of her face turning as “pale as a ghost.”

I had to create an image for Katie's vignette ([Arakaki][Japanese Class]). I drew a mad face with Japanese characters hovering over her head. The words translate into “mad”. I decided to draw this because in her vignette she talks about how frustrated she is when she's in her Japanese class. When reading Matias's vignette ([Valentin][Puerto Rican]) he talked about how looking up at a picture by his staircase reminded him of the time that he visited Puerto Rico. While visiting he felt out of place because of the language barrier and how he lived far away. For his vignette, I drew a staircase because that is where this entire vignette started.