analogy-metaphor


 * Examples of analogy/metaphor**
 * 1) "If someone I love should be killed, I know I would feel rage, loss, grief, helplessness, perhaps for the rest of my life. It would be arrogant to think I can predict how I would respond to such a disaster. But Jesus Christ, whose way of life I try to follow, refused to meet hate with hate and violence with violence."
 * 2) Sister Prejean prays to be like Jesus Christ and to show no hate towards those who kill and those who show violence. This is an analogy because she is using religious views to argue her case on how we should not execute people because feeding hate with hate and violence with violence will not help any ones situation.
 * 3) pg. 21
 * 4) Ronika Ibrahim


 * 1) "I feel a tight band of ice around my stomach.."
 * 2) Sister Prejean is using a typical metaphor comparing the actual feeling or worry and fear as a band of ice squeezing one's stomach.
 * 3) pg. 27
 * 4) Emily Strand


 * 1) "Even if he had said 99.9 percent sure, there's that one tenth of 1 percent. The simplest surgery can go wrong. Delivery of babies can go wrong. Anything that human beings do can go wrong."
 * 2) Sisterr Prejean is worrying that even if Tom Dybdahl (Pat's Lawyer) is 95 percent sure Pat will live, that's not good enough. This quote also applies to the death penalty in gereral : that when human beings are involved, even the best intentions (justice) can go horribly wrong.
 * 3) pg. 36
 * 4) Gabby Ghabash


 * 1) "I feel that we're in a boat in the rapids and we're trying to throw out an anchor that will catch solidly on a rock. I am hoping that, even though it's very late, Millard and his team will find an anchor issue."
 * 2) Sister Prejean sees that Millard will be the Sonnier's last hope in a trial, since the attorney's that are provided for the prisoners on death row hardly give them the time of day and/or have little qualification to defend someone in a murder trial. Millard is a good lawyer and knows the biases and tricks of the court.
 * 3) page 44
 * 4) Christina Jones


 * 1) "what I learned first about the legal system is that it's a system of gates that shut like one-way turnstiles, and you can't go back in once you've come out."
 * 2) Millard is using this metaphor with the way of the legal system in court. Once someone has done some action, there is no way of turning back. There are many little actions that can effect the whole out come of a case if the cards are not dealt right!
 * 3) pg. 45
 * 4) Addie Diamond


 * 1) "What I first learned about the legal system is that it's a system of gates that shut like one- way turnstiles, and you can't go back in once you've come out."
 * 2) In this quote, Prejean shows the legal system in plain terms for those that may get lost in legal jargon. She goes on to explain that if a trial attorney does not bring up issues, or make objections, then the high courts says that they wave the right to bring the issue up later on. In other words, attorneys could pass up an issue or topic that could be useful later on.
 * 3) Page 45
 * 4) Kelsey Cavanaugh


 * 1) "I am beginning to feel relieved and picture a substantial boulder being hoisted into Pat's Wagon."
 * 2) While watching Millard go over Sonnier's trial details for possible defense arguments, Prejean hears Millard bring up a lifesaving argument, which Prejean interprets as a large boulder, based off of Millard's earlier analogy of legal issues as rocks.
 * 3) Page 52
 * 4) Dillon Beckett


 * 1) "He is no longer a man but a thing waiting to be handled."
 * 2) Sister Prejean is referring to what Camus said about the condemned and how Pat isn't really a human anymore to a lot of people. Rather he has become a creature waiting to be executed.
 * 3) page 74
 * 4) Andrew Albano


 * 1) "I would like to talk eyeball to eyeball."
 * 2) When Phelps and Sister Helen are talking on the phone, he is incharge of the "overall precoess" about which witnesses can watch.
 * 3) page 78
 * 4) Ginny Hicks


 * 1) "I am holding my thoughts on a tight reign and refusing to allow myself to think ahead."
 * 2) As Pat's execution is nearing, Sister Prejean refuses to think of what lies a head. This is difficult for her due to the image of the death house as she goes to visit Pat.
 * 3) page 84
 * 4) Wilson Lamb


 * 1) "I count the hours on my fingers: nine hours before midnight. Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But between we slosh through huge swatches of time-weeks, months, years, decades even"
 * 2) Sister Prejean is comparing and contrasting about how we look at life through the different phases of our life. For most of our life time is just a background to everything else but when we are talking about the beginning and end of life we get very exact, we don't "slosh through huge swatches of time"
 * 3) Pg 85
 * 4) Alissa Shear


 * 1) "While part of me raises the lance and charges into the fray another part frantically looks for shelter"
 * 2) Sister Prejean is battling the conflict rising between the nuns and the chaplains/death row faculty. She explains how she wants to help but also wants to avoid conflict.
 * 3) Page: 120
 * 4) Alex VanDongen


 * 1) "I run the fingers of my conscience along the fabric of this accusation and feel for the hard knots and tears that guilt brings. Had I been blind, naive? Had I jeopardized a man's spritual well-being? No. The fabric feels smooth and whole and sound.
 * 2) Prejean is internally responding to the accusation of letting her feelings get in the way of helping Sonnier. She is comparing her conscience to a piece of fabric which-in her opinion-is not damaged.
 * 3) Page 121
 * 4) Marie Deininger


 * 1) "I run the fingers of my conscience along the fabric of this accusation and feel the hard knots and tears that bring guilt."
 * 2) Sister Prejean begins to feel the guilt of Pat's spiritual life after the execution as she contemplates accepting the role of another man's advisor.
 * 3) Page 121
 * 4) Sarah Anne Nakamura


 * 1) "Had I been blind, naive? Had I jeopardized a man's spiritual well-being? No. The fabric feels smooth and whole and sound.
 * 2) Sister Prejean uses this metaphor to show that she did all she could before Pat's execution. This metaphor gives the effect of a humble situation and a sorrowful tone of the past.
 * 3) p.121
 * 4) Wilson Lamb


 * 1) "Do you really believe that Jesus, who taught us not to return hate for hate and evil for evil and whose dying words were, 'Father, forgive them,' would participate in these executions? Would Jesus pull the switch?"
 * 2) Sister Prejean is talking to Blackburn about becoming a spiritual adviser to death row inmate Robert Willie. She is questioning how Blackburn can be a Christian who supports capital punishment; she uses the analogy of Jesus to play off his Christian knowledge and tap his morality (to persuade him).
 * 3) page 122
 * 4) Kyra McComas


 * 1) "Even the Pauline injunction, "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord, I will repay" can be interpreted as a command and a process-the command to restrain individual impulses toward revenge in exchange for the assurance that God will be only too pleased to handle the grievance-in spades. That God wants to "get even" like the rest of us does not seem to be in question."
 * 2) Sister PJ is comparing our tendency towards revenge with God's desire for revenge in order to reason that capital punishment for the sake of revenge is un-Christian.
 * 3) Pg. 123
 * 4) Andrew Maguire

1. "We're like different baseball teams,different points of view, but we respect each other" 2. Sister Prejean talking about how even though Vernon would like to see Robert Willie die and she doesn't they can still get along. 3. Page 140 4. Alissa Shear
 * 1) "He is taking his time telling me all this, like someone who has some rare coins in a box and who opens the box and takes each coin and holds it in his hand and turns it over and looks at it and then clinks it back into the box. I don't rush him. I let him have his moment."
 * 2) Sister Prejean commenting on how Robert Willie talks about his past life and relationship with a married woman
 * 3) Page 149
 * 4) Anthony Oyler


 * 1) "Now that is one real good feeling, to know you've got a good-sized chunk of time with somebody you love. You're kind of like on this little island all by yourselves and nobody can get to you. I never experienced love with anyone like I did with her."
 * 2) Robert Willie is talking to Sister Helen about his love for a married women that he used to see.
 * 3) page 149
 * 4) Ginny Hicks


 * 1) "cop a plea which then led Mr. Farmer to tighten up and come down hard on my case, using me as a stepping stone in his political career."
 * 2) Robert is talking about him being innocent and talking about Mr. Farmer.
 * 3) Page 160
 * 4) Nabill Niknam


 * 1) "Maybe his experience in life has taught him early on that life is waves, not particles, that nothing is really solid, that everything is flow."
 * 2) Sister Prejean is talking about how Robert has not really realized what experience he is involved in. She uses the metaphor of life as waves and that everything is flowing.
 * 3) Page 205
 * 4) Andrew Stuck


 * 1) "it cut him like a knife"
 * 2) This is a classic metaphor because while not really being cut, the person feels like they are being sliced in two.
 * 3) Page 206
 * 4) Genevieve Bennett


 * 1) "One of them has reportedly said that I was so "naive" and "emotionally involved" with Sonnier that I was "blind" to the fact that Pat may have "lost his soul" because he had not received the last rites of the Church during the final hours of his life.
 * 2) Sister Prejean is talking about criticism she faced involving Sonnier's trial and how she was "blind" to Pat's case.
 * 3) Page 120
 * 4) John Kearns

2. Sister Prejean is comparing Robert Willie's storytelling to a rare coin collector- he takes his time with his task. 3. p.149 4. Erin Dugan
 * 1) "He chuckles and he is taking his time telling me all this, like someone who has some rare coins in a box and who opens the box and takes each coin and holds it in his hand and turns it over and looks at it and then clinks it back into the box. I don't rush him. I let him have his moment."