The  literary devices make the writing  have more depth, and makes it more interesting. It gives a visual.This quote means to me, is that it’s okay to have feelings, and it’s okay to feel things strongly. Everyone has their own emotions. So many people in the world block out their emotions, and then people can’t connect with each other, they can’t relate. If they connected with people, it might help them to heal. When Peter is getting ready to leave Vola and go to the library, he breaks down, because his second bad memory about his mother comes back. Vola says “We all own a beast called anger……………” (Pennypacker 218) In other words Vola is telling peter that everyone has anger, and cannot always be controlled. Just because he’s angry, it doesn’t mean he’s like his father. The author is trying to make us see that anger is in everybody but there is always a reason for it. Anger can be dangerous but it’s okay to feel it - You can’t escape it. She uses a metaphor to convey this idea.

This passage had a significant impact on my thinking about feelings and emotions. Sometimes, it’s just so much easier to block out your emotions, and pretend they don’t exist, but they will always come back. Vola calls anger a beast. Even if anger is a beast, it can be tamed. No matter what, it will still be a beast, but that doesn’t mean it has to be wild and unpredictable.

 Anger can be dangerous but it's ok to feel it-you can't escape anger. She uses the  metaphor to convey this idea. It is ok to let anger escape everyone in a while. This story/passage had a significant impact on my thinking about how it’s ok to feel anger. The real world applications of this is that it explains it's ok to let anger out and to feel it. It also shows that it's not just about letting the anger out, it's about how you use and control that anger. Anger can be dangerous but also helpful in some instances. For example if someone releases anger in a positive way they should direct their anger towards working on something. Nger can be bad when people just explode on something or someone with their anger. These are my thoughts on the quote.

Vola said it to explain that everybody feels anger and it’s okay to have it.  She also said anger can be dangerous but can also cause many good things and just because he is angry doesn’t mean he is like his father. The author is trying to make us see that anger is in everybody but there is always a reason for it. Anger can be dangerous but it’s okay to feel it - you cannot escape it. She uses the metaphor to convey this idea. It is okay to let anger escape every once in awhile. This quote had a significant impact on my thinking about anger because i always thought anger is uncontrollable and can hurt everyone I love and care about, but then i learned, it can’t. When people in the real world read this quote, they might make connections to it and, like i did, learn that anger is perfectly okay to have.

This relates to character because it reveals that Peter has been holding in anger for a long time and it might help him to let it all out. This reveals that Vola has a soft inside even though she has a hard outside and that Vola has had a hard time dealing with her own feelings too. Ths relates to conflict because it reveals that Peter thought that he wasn’t angry even though he was.This relates to the theme because everyone gets angry and most of the time they have a hard time understanding situations. I think that this quote is a metaphor and this gives an effect where we can better understand Peter’s anger. This quote really relates to me because sometimes I feel like I need to hold in my anger and it could really help if someone would tell me this whenever I have a problem with anger. This connects to the world because everyone gets angry once in awhile and it would be great if everyone knew how to handle anger. 

“We all have a beast called anger. It can serve us: Many good things come of anger in bad things; many unjust things are made just. But we all have to figure out how to civilize it.” In other words anger can be a good thing. We need to know how to keep it in check. The author is trying to make us see that Vola is a wise person. This is a fact that Vola is a civilized person. This passage had a significant impact on my thinking about: How civilized is Vola? At first I thought that Vola was a crazy, uncivilized lady but now I know that she actually has a sense of decency. 

and it is okay to have anger as long as you manage it. I think the quote means that anger can be a good or bad thing when you own your feelings and understand your feelings. This quote should mean a lot to Peter. In other words, Peter’s relationship with his dad is not good. He doesn’t want to grow up to be like him. He also doesn’t want to have so much anger as his dad does. Vola has a hard time expressing her feelings too. The author is trying to make us see that the main theme of this quote is Anger. Vola and Peter are both adapting and to new problems and solutions. This story/passage had a significant impact on my thinking about different types of anger. I think that this quote means that it is okay to have anger and everyone has anger sometimes. Anger doesn’t always have to be bad. This could be good in the real world to calm people down about their stress and to let their emotions out. Overall, Vola is right on telling Peter to express his feelings and to be comfortable with having anger.

The author is trying to make us see that Vola cares about Peter and she actually has a soft side. She supports Peter. This quote is important because it’s telling you that it’s okay to have anger but you NEED to know how to manage it. The real world applications and connections that can be drawn from the meaning of the quote is that it’s okay to be angry if you can tame it and everyone gets angry. This quote had a significant impact on my thinking about anger. I know realize that anger isn’t always necessarily bad. Good things can come from anger.

There is a significance about the characters, conflict, and the theme. Peter’s relationship with his dad is not good, he got mad at his dad because he didn’t want to be like him, it shows Peter has anger. This quote helps us learn something about Peter, Peter being mad is a big significance. Vola’s quote also reveals a big significance about her. Vola  has a hard outside but a soft inside she gave Peter good advice and helped him. We know that Vola has a hard time expressing her own feeling but when she sees someone else she helps them. There is conflict in the story and this quote shows it. Peter does not think that he is angry even though Vola is telling him he is, it is Peter vs Dad. The theme is important because it goes throughout the story. Anger, there is a lot of anger in the book. Understanding each other and adapting to new problems and situations, is something that happens a lot in the book too, and coping with feelings, in this book everyone has had to learn to cope with others feelings . This quote is trying to say that you need to and should own and understand your feeling. Anger a good or bad thing, but you need know how to react to it, and control it. The big thing that this quote it saying that we all get angry sometimes and that is okay.

This could be good in the real world because a lot of people think that anger is a bad thing so they hold it in and never show their anger, and if it was in the real world people would show their feeling more.