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Xiaoxiao820 Posted 16 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Question about the novel "Girl with a pearl Earring"

I am reading Tracy Chevallier's novel "Girl with a pearl Earring". In the novel, Tracy describles heroine's mother's voice like " a cooking pot, a flagon". I know she use metaphor here, maybe I lacks imagination, and I don't see any connection between a female's voice and "a cooking pot".
Here is the full sentence: "My mother's voice - a cooking pot, a flagon - approached from the front room."
Could anyone give me some explanation?
Also I want to say the novel is very juicy and I enjoy it alot.

thanks
Xiao
  

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Hi Xiao and welcome to the forum. Your quotation doesn't make much sense to me either. I know what a cooking pot is and a 'flagon' is an old-fashioned word for a container for wine or ale.

— TrysB

  • Hi Xiao and welcome to the forum.
  • Your quotation doesn't make much sense to me either.
  • I know what a cooking pot is and a 'flagon' is an old-fashioned word for a container for wine or ale.
  • But comparing a Mother's voice to a cooking pot??
  • If the author had said like the sound of a ladle on a cooking pot -maybe I could imagine a voice like that, but not really.
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Hi Xiao and welcome to the forum.

Your quotation doesn't make much sense to me either. I know what a cooking pot is and a 'flagon' is an old-fashioned word for a container for wine or ale. But comparing a Mother's voice to a cooking pot??

If the author had said like the sound of a ladle on a cooking pot-maybe I could imagine a voice like that, but not really.
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