Jessi's Blog Post #3 Page 140

"Thanks for the great clue, Shay," Tally said aloud. Talking to herself didn't seem like such a bad idea there in the outer ruins, where the relics of the Rusties struggled against the grip of creeping plants. Anything was better than ghostly silence. She passed concrete plains, vast expanses cracked by thrusting grasses. The windows of fallen walls stared up at her, sprouting weeds as if the earth had grown eyes.

It seems to be a rare occurrence to see much figurative language in this novel. However, I really like this example. The author really gives the reader the feeling of how abandoned Tally is through the use of personification (creeping plants, fallen walls stared). There is also use of a metaphor in the last sentence, "sprouting weeds as if the earth had grown eyes". Earlier in the book you could tell how Tally felt about the ruins, but this really gives the reader the chance to be in the ruins themselves. I think that's very important in this book since they are in the future, and in a sense we are living the ruins today, so its harder for us to imagine our way of life gone. The ruins seem to scare Tally, and we can see why because the figurative language in this selection portrays an eerie silence. I think this feeling fits the story because Tally is being watched, but by the city. They found out about Shay by keeping an eye on Tally's friendship, so this figurative language fits because Tally knows she is being watched.