Xiaoxiao820 Posted 17 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Question about the novel "Girl with a pearl Earring"
I am reading Tracy Chevallier's novel "Girl with a pearl Earring". In the novel, Tracy describles heroine's mother's voice like " a cooking pot, a flagon". I know she use metaphor here, maybe I lacks imagination, and I don't see any connection between a female's voice and "a cooking pot".
Here is the full sentence: "My mother's voice - a cooking pot, a flagon - approached from the front room."
Could anyone give me some explanation?
Also I want to say the novel is very juicy and I enjoy it alot.
thanks
Xiao
Here is the full sentence: "My mother's voice - a cooking pot, a flagon - approached from the front room."
Could anyone give me some explanation?
Also I want to say the novel is very juicy and I enjoy it alot.
thanks
Xiao
Top answer
Hi Xiao and welcome to the forum. Your quotation doesn't make much sense to me either. I know what a cooking pot is and a 'flagon' is an old-fashioned word for a container for wine or ale.
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Hi Xiao and welcome to the forum.
Your quotation doesn't make much sense to me either. I know what a cooking pot is and a 'flagon' is an old-fashioned word for a container for wine or ale. But comparing a Mother's voice to a cooking pot??
If the author had saidlike the sound of a ladle on a cooking pot-maybe I could imagine a voice like that, but not really.
Your quotation doesn't make much sense to me either. I know what a cooking pot is and a 'flagon' is an old-fashioned word for a container for wine or ale. But comparing a Mother's voice to a cooking pot??
If the author had said
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