Wisps of heat rise from a red padded stool beside a leaning metal spatula.

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Earthworm

The sun's so hot! I'm fried!

— James and the Giant Peach · 1996

Behind the line

What it means

Our 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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