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Vampires in a lemon grove5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This gives readers more of a mental image of what Clyde is seeing. Their drop is steep and vertical, a black hail.” Throughout her short story, she used metaphors and similes similar to the way she explained the bats falling like hail. Instead of just saying that many bats descended from the caves, Russel wrote “they flow from cliffs that glow like pale chalk, expelled from caves in the seeming billions. The first example of this that jumped out to me was when Clyde was explaining the descent of bats from their caves. What I enjoyed was that she made what could be simple phrases into something more by wording them in unique and beautiful ways. The way that the author, Karen Russel, phrased her words made the story more readable and more emotional in some ways than any other short story I’ve read. To me, it became more similar to poetry than a short story. Vampires in The Lemon Grove was completely a sensory experience. ![]()
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