Similes

There are a huge amount of simile's in The Englishman's Boy. Alot of these simile's have breakage imagery. Here are some of my favorite ones. " Bull strains to rise, great hump and shoulders pitching, wrentching himself up to totter on three legs, fractured foreleg flapping like a broken branch only held together by a shred of bark." ( Vanderhaeghe, 117) This was when Hardwick found a buffalo and was toying with it. He has no respect for animals and the poor buffalo is dieing a slow, painful death.
" Something cracks. hard and sharp like fracturing bone, and Fitz sways with the old man slumped unconsious in his fists. He's snapped the old mans neck, like a dry brittle stick broken over a knee". (Vanderhaeghe, 321) This was when Fitz stopped Shorty McAdoo from talking to Chance. Fitz has an enormous amount of strengh and was treating McAdoo like a rag doll.