Game Over Figurative Language Essay

“Racquets featuring strings strung across an oval frame were first used to play tennis-like games in the 15th century. Prior to this time ball players had used their bare hands, custom-made gloves or rope wrapped around their hands to strike the ball”(betHQ). Although Ryan, the main character in the story “Game Over”, might of liked it better using his hands judging by how inaccurate he is with a tennis racket. “Game Over” and “Girl Can’t Dance” are similar and different in many ways. The two ways this essay will be describing is how their theme is similar and how the figurative language in the two stories is used for different reasons. The theme in “Game Over” and “Girl Can’t Dance” are the same, that having a good friend is important. The author wrote “I owed Aubree an apology. Maybe even 14 million apologies. Fame wasn’t important to me anymore. Friends were”(Lisa Yee 18). This evidence supports my claim that having good friends is important because Emma messed up and got stuck-up and mean toward her friend Aubree. This causes the two of them to not be friends anymore. Emma realizes that Aubree is more important than being famous because of the fact that everyone needs a friend to sit with at lunch and hang out with. In “Game Over” the text it said “...but
In “Game Over” on page 24 the author wrote “smiles sprouted on all five faces”(Eric Kahn Gale 24). The reason the author used this figurative language is to get the feeling that Ryan is having, of feeling welcomed into a “community”. In the story “Girl Can’t Dance” it stated in the text “I looked like a cat trying to cough up a hairball”(Lisa Yee 16). On the contrary, the figurative language in this particular story is so the reader gets a visual of what her dancing would have looked like if they were in the story. Figurative language, specifically the reason, of these two stories are