Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
Similes
your breath kind of hung frozen in the air like a hunk of smoke… (page
1, paragraph 1)
a head shaped just like a hambone… (page 4, paragraph 1)
his lips looked like a giant rubber band… (page 18, paragraph 5)
voice…hissing like a snake. (page 68, paragraph 1)
Byron…grinning like a giant, bald-headed kindergarten baby. (page 115,
paragraph 6)
pump…looked like a deformed, evil, one-armed space robot. (page 145,
paragraph 9)
voice popped like one of those big brown grocery bags being snapped
open (page 160, paragraph 4)