#analyzing diction

[nuviaisrael-blog]

But she's taking her sweet time...she's turning over the bread and rearranging the coals with her fingers...Christ, she's gotta have some kinda calluses to handle that heat

Palestine, Joe Sacco, Page 66

[nuviaisrael-blog]

“Dry blood on his pillow case...”

Palestine, Joe Sacco, Page 32

[nuviaisrael-blog]

In late 1988, the former PFLP spokesman, who still carried deep scars from the letter bomb that blown up his face sixteen years earlier..."

The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan, (Page 213)

[nuviaisrael-blog]

Later, in the Jabalya camp, several thousand people gathered for the funeral, and clashes broke out. The next day, boys and young men began hurling stones at the Israeli soldiers. Hundreds of stones were falling on the troops, so they responded with live fire

The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan, (Page 193)

[nuviaisrael-blog]

One clammy gray morning in January 1968, Dalia awoke in Ramla with Bashir and his family on her mind.

The Family Tree, Sandy Tolan, (Page 154)

[nuviaisrael-blog]

After nineteen years we really had the very strong feeling that we were going back to our lands, houses, streets,schools-to our lives. That we would get our freedom back to the homeland. Sorry to say, that was not the case. It was an illusion.

The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan, (Page 136)

[nuviaisrael-blog]

By the spring of 1967, as Dalia began to hear chilling threats on the radio from Arab broadcasters speaking bad Hebrew, the world darkened. She could sense it. Warr, it seemed, would be possible to avoid.

Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree, (Page 122)

[nuviaisrael-blog]

The flood of migrants increased the pressure on Ramla to create jobs.

Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree, (Page 108)