Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi

Author:Shifa Saltagi Safadi [Safadi, Shifa Saltagi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2024-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

Takeaway

The phone is dark and cold,

and when Baba presses it,

it doesn’t turn on.

Kareem,

you better not

have broken my phone.

Baba’s voice is low,

but

that

just

means

he’s

REALLY

angry.

I’m not getting

my phone back

for a

million years.

Hyperbole:

an exaggeration.

Which is NOT what I’m doing,

’cause I really don’t think my dad’s

ever going to give it back.

Red Flag

I sit at the table,

quiet,

holding my breath,

waiting to see what happens.

Jameelah took

Sameer upstairs

to sleep,

his dino fixed

and clasped

within his fingers.

Baba’s standing by the fridge,

arms crossed,

his phone

plugged into the charger

above

the kitchen countertops.

Tension thickens

through the room.

My dad is a

coach on a field

spiking a red flag,

challenging

a call.

A metaphor:

using figurative language

to compare two things.

In other words,

my night is

a big black hole.

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