Facts against views (metaphor)
Simei hires Colonna to teach the other journalists “to respect, or appear to respect, one fundamental principle of democratic journalism, which is separating fact from opinion”. According to this principle, when some event took place a journalist cannot express his own idea or opinion of what had happened, but can “introduce in quotation marks the statements of a witness” someone who represents public opinion. And here comes the most sufficient trick of the creating news: “those statements, once put in quotes, become facts - in other words, it's a fact that that person expressed that opinion”. Probably this opinion is not reliable or relevant, but the audience might be persuaded to accept the view as being more convincing. The power of the written word is in its domain.
Spring in life (metaphor)
Fifty-year-old Colonna has been disappointed in life and love, but here comes Maia into his life, and he falls in love. And Colonna says that “for the first time in thirty years I just felt that spring took hold of me to the bone”. Spring is metaphorically represented as feelings of love.
Like a deer (simile)
Sweet and warm emotions have entered Colonna’s life when he and Maia started their love relationship. Most of all, he likes her eyes - “eyes like those of a deer”, because she resembles for him poor Bambi – a cartoon character.
