1. I moved through the veins of the marble heart, through the space between the paisleys on my mother’s blouse.
What’s "marble heart"?
Here is the context:
Later that day, as I walked through our living room, a maze revealed itself to me in the mahogany coffee table. I sat on the floor, fingered the wood grain, and found a winding avenue through it. The fabric of my parents’ blanket was a pattern of climbing ivy and, from one end of the bed to the other, I traced the air between the tendrils. Soon I didn’t need to use a finger, mapping my path by sight. I moved through the veins of the marble heart, through the space between the paisleys on my mother’s blouse. At the age of seven I changed forever, like the faithful who see Christ on the side of a barn or peering up from a corn tortilla. Everywhere I looked, a labyrinth meandered.
2.And I don’t clearly understand the sentence above: "like the faithful who see Christ on the side of a barn or peering up from a corn tortilla. "
3. I gripped the crayon, savored the place.
What does "savor" mean here?
The context:
Reaching the cheese had about it a triumph and finality I’d never experienced after coloring a picture or connecting the dots. If only I’d known a word like “ inevitable,” since that’s how it felt to finally slip into the innermost room. I gripped the crayon, savored the place.
4Does "a coloring book" mean a book with pictures without colors, and waiting for you to color them?
Wait for your help!!
What’s "marble heart"?
Here is the context:
Later that day, as I walked through our living room, a maze revealed itself to me in the mahogany coffee table. I sat on the floor, fingered the wood grain, and found a winding avenue through it. The fabric of my parents’ blanket was a pattern of climbing ivy and, from one end of the bed to the other, I traced the air between the tendrils. Soon I didn’t need to use a finger, mapping my path by sight. I moved through the veins of the marble heart, through the space between the paisleys on my mother’s blouse. At the age of seven I changed forever, like the faithful who see Christ on the side of a barn or peering up from a corn tortilla. Everywhere I looked, a labyrinth meandered.
2.And I don’t clearly understand the sentence above: "like the faithful who see Christ on the side of a barn or peering up from a corn tortilla. "
3. I gripped the crayon, savored the place.
What does "savor" mean here?
The context:
Reaching the cheese had about it a triumph and finality I’d never experienced after coloring a picture or connecting the dots. If only I’d known a word like “ inevitable,” since that’s how it felt to finally slip into the innermost room. I gripped the crayon, savored the place.
4Does "a coloring book" mean a book with pictures without colors, and waiting for you to color them?
Wait for your help!!
