5/12/2023 0 Comments People like us by dana mele![]() Throughout People Like Us, Kay must come to terms with mistakes she has made in the past, and as she accepts her mistakes, she can learn and grow. Mele’s figurative language reflects the feelings and experiences of the characters in the novel. The panic rising like a flood is then mirrored in the flooded bathroom. ![]() Later in the novel, when Kay attempts to open the door to a bathroom, she feels “panic…rising in me like a flood” (Mele, 2018, p. Mele’s imagery shows the reader that Kay is holding something in and working very hard to control her emotions. A teardrop can be the snowflake that starts an avalanche” (Mele, 2018, p. She creates an imaginary “room of ice, soundless, safe. From the very beginning, we also know that Kay is holding something back from the reader. ![]() The image of shattered glass also reflects the shattered lives of the students as the novel progresses. In the first few pages, when Kay and her friends find Jessica’s dead body floating in the lake, Mele uses simile to describe the scene beautifully: “Fragments of moonlight lie like shattered glass over the surface of the water” (Mele, 2018, p. Mele uses figurative language to enhance the eerie, suspenseful feeling in the novel. ![]() People Like Us by Dana Mele is full of suspense and intrigue as we, along with Kay, try to figure out who murdered Jessica Lane. ![]()
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