In this excerpt of Under the Feet of Jesus, the use of figurative language and repetition to help convey Estrella and her ability to read.

In this excerpt figurative language helps us understand Estrella and who she doesn’t really like. For example when she describes Mrs. Horn she says “Face of a crumpled kleenex and a nose of a hook.” This is showing how that Mrs.Horn to Estrella is ugly and wrinkly. There is another simile in line 3 she says “red tool chest like a suitcase near the door.”This shows how the toolbox was a suitcase and someone who was fixing something. However, Estrella looks inside this toolbox and in lines 5-9 she uses a metaphor to compare the complexity and quirkiness of the English Alphabet and the odd shapes of