Refugee Literary Devices a.k.a. Craft Moves
Across
- 4. "CRACK! BANG! Josef Landau shot straight up in bed, his heart racing" (p.1)
- 6. "He clung to the back of his father's shirt, hanging on like Dad was a life preserver" (251).
- 7. "This journey was a song, Isabel realized, a son cubano, and each part of it was a verse" (155).
- 9. "He lay there, still gasping for breath, the plastic zip tie cutting angrily into his wrists" (264).
Down
- 1. "Hey, we never named our boat," said Ivan. "The St. Louis, Isabel's grandfather said softly."(207)
- 2. "The air was damp and smelled of cigarettes and cabbage and sweat" (p.95)
- 3. "As her mother liked to say, Isabel could play the storm clouds from the sky" (10).
- 5. "He howled louder than a fighter jet, and his parents didn't even tell him to hush" (111)
- 8. "Hey, at least we know we're on the right track." (231)
- 10. Isabel adopts the saying once said by Fidel Castro to keep her going "Fight Against the Impossible and Win"