TC Boyle Week #3–Smile with similes!

A simile is a comparison of UNLIKE items, using the words “like” or “as” to do so. Today, I’m going to give you the beginnings of three similes T. C. Boyle uses in his short story, “The Night of the Satellite.”

Try this:

First, think of how YOU might end each of these comparisons. Then, scroll down the page, past the asterisks, and see what HE actually used. Do you like yours more? Do you have a personal favourite? [Ace’s fave of these three is the grasshopper one–absolutely brilliant!]

Grasshoppers flung themselves at the windshield like ___________________.

I looked up and watched the sky expand overhead and then shrink down to fit me like a ___________________.

It was too much trouble to bother with making dinner–and too hot, up in the nineties, and so humid the air hung on your shoulders like _________________.

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1. yellow hail

2. safety helmet

3. a flak jacket

Coming tomorrow: TC Boyle meets Jodi Picoult, the Queen of Similes!