... ease" (369). Now that the reader has an idea of where "cool" originated, some of Donnell's use of metaphors makes a little more sense. When he uses the metaphor "Cooler than a polar bear's toenails," (367) not only does he now appear to be exaggerating for the sake of stressing "cool," but also the reader understands with this image that being cool in not ... necessarily a great thing, but more something powerful and natural, like a polar bear. "I maintain like an ice cube in the remote part of the freezer," is another powerful image, expressing to the reader not just that he is cool, b...

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