Metaphor "The Man Who Loved Flowers" Period 3 by Mirela Kucinic https://padlet.com/kucinic/metaphor3 Find three metaphors. What is being compared? Why? What does it reveal? en-us 2017-03-07 02:10:15 UTC 2025-10-02 13:38:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/76849225/92d3677925721468960dff9236ad9b98b58f9860/b4607220d4ffe8e95121bcbb39abc341.jpg David Cedrone metaphor (imagery) https://padlet.com/kucinic/metaphor3/wish/159312924 "His face was a map of wrinkles,his eyes deep in pouches, and a cigarette jittered between his fingers."(454)

significance
I think king wrote the old man this way because the last couple of pages before this old man is brought up, he talks about spring and new young life. this could also be foreshadowing that this old man represents the end of life as later on in the story 'love' ends a girls life.

explanation 
King uses imagery to show that this old mans face is wrinkled like a map. King uses your sense of sight to make you imagine the grooves in the mans face. King also uses your sense of smell as most people know what a cigarette smells like, so they can not only picture this mans face but they can also smell the cigarette.

]]> 2017-03-10 16:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kucinic/metaphor3/wish/159312924 Noah DeMelo (Metaphor explaining Beauty) https://padlet.com/kucinic/metaphor3/wish/160948391 " ...he was beautiful, and the old women found herself thinking with a moment's sweet nostalgia that in spiring anyone can be beautiful... Spring is the only season when nostalgia never seems to turn bitter, ..." (453)

Significance
Stephen King uses the idea of beauty to evoke feeling and emotion from the reader. King uses spring to help further develop the mood/tone because he compares beauty and new beginnings to the spring. The old women connects the springtime to beauty from her nostalgic past. It is ironic that the women calls Love beautiful because at the end of the story he ends up being the Hammer Murderer. The whole idea of beauty can be taken into many perspectives because Love is an archetype that is associated with beauty and good memories but, in this story that is not the case.

Explanation
Stephen King uses beauty and the idea of love to set the overall mood/tone for this short story. This is done through not only a metaphor but also the love archetype. The metaphor shown here is when the old women compares beauty to the springtime and all of the positive memories she has associated with the season. The archetype shown here is the idea of love and how love is beautiful. King twists this archetype so that Love is not positive but indeed something that is negative. ]]> 2017-03-18 18:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kucinic/metaphor3/wish/160948391 Alex Lemos (metaphor explaining atmosphere) https://padlet.com/kucinic/metaphor3/wish/161548430 "The air was soft and beautiful" (452)

Significance
Stephen King uses the atmosphere to give someone that feeling of comfort and happiness. When he says that the air was soft and beautiful it makes us picture that it's a nice and sunny day and that the atmosphere is good and nothing is going on. Even though the radio is saying a lot of negative stuff like Russia detonating a nuclear bomb and some other stuff, everyone ignores it which maintains that good atmosphere in the story. Even after "Love" murders "Norma" he just jumps right back into that good atmosphere like nothing ever happened. This quote could also relate to Norma, possibly she has soft skin and is beautiful and the book is giving us a description of Norma without telling us much about her.

Explanation
Stephen King uses this to both describe the good mood of the story and the character Norma. This quote best represents a metaphor because Stephen King is comparing air with soft and beautiful. Stephen King uses the word soft and beautiful to set the tone of the story to make us believe that everything is okay]]> 2017-03-21 15:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kucinic/metaphor3/wish/161548430 Doniella Sterling (metaphor explaining confusion) https://padlet.com/kucinic/metaphor3/wish/161572164 "For a moment his face seemed puzzled"  (page 454)

Explanation
This is a direct metaphor because Stephen King compares Loves face to a puzzle without using like or as. 

Significance
Stephen king uses the comparison of Love's face and a puzzle to make the reader/ audience feel the confusion between love and the flower man. 
I think the metaphor used ties into imagery because Stephen King compares Love's face to a puzzle, king uses sight so you can imagine the confusion that's going on in Love's  mind when he reaches in his coat pocket and touches the thing that's in his pocket. There's  also a change in mood and tone to create suspense, when Love touches the thing in his pocket.  "For a moment he felt lonely, almost haunted, and then, as his hand left his pocket, it regained its former expression of eager expression" (pg. 454). The quote ties into the metaphor I used because it expresses the feelings and anticipation that were going through Love's  head when he felt the hammer in his pocket. 
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