Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2)

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX (from The Baltimore Sun 02.21.2009)

J. Max Bond, Jr: architect
Chris Brown: crime
Stefan Gegala: leather
Andrew Patrick Griffin: emanciated
Osama bin Laden: war
Lena Lee: saver
Martin O'Malley: money
Brian Roberts: baseball
Mary Rosemond: diary
Frank Roylance: weather

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The sky is a pot's lid, covering the boiling ingredients.
The lake is a bottomless pool of tears.
The buildings are weeds crowded on a piece of land, hungry for nutrients.
The city lights are millions of stars brightening the darkness.
Two spotlights are eyes looking up to the heavens, weak and confused.
The people are cells which are so small they cannot be seen but are very vital.

A metaphor is a figure of speech wherein objects (or any nouns) are compared based on their characteristics - like or unlike - but the use of the words "is like", "seems like", "may be compared to" etc. are not used. The objects are directly compared to each other.