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The sun's so hot! I'm fried!
— Earthworm · James and the Giant Peach
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The complaint turns exposure to the sun into an image of being cooked. Fried gives the heat a more extreme consequence than simply feeling warm, while the exclamations keep the discomfort immediate. The speaker describes the weather through what it seems to be doing to his body.
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