an easy passage - julia copus Flashcards
title
escape
life to death
passage through life - bible
rite of passage - something you have to go through - tradition
‘once she is halfway up there, crouched in her bikini’
in media res
female experience
in the liminal - uncertainty
exposure
foetus position
‘family’s house’
comfort
represents safety
not her own, implies that she does not feel as though she belongs there
‘trembling, she knows that the one thing she must not do it to think of the narrow windowsill’
fear
leave house but scared to
not sturdy - represents mental state?
‘sharp drop of the stairwell’
plunged into womanhood
unprepared
‘she must keep her mind on the friend with whom she is half in love
keep sanity and innocence
thinks she’s in love - strong teenage emotions
imperative - certainty
‘blond gravel somewhere beneath her’
friends have made that transition
she is still young
top of the hierarchy - hasn’t faced challenges yet
‘open window’
opportunity to still be a girl
all the opportunities in womanhood
‘flimsy, hole punched, aluminium lever’
unstable
going back to childhood is difficult
‘length of her whole body, leaning into the warm flank of the house’
judgement - body is the focus - half in
wants to go back in
‘but first she steadies herself, still crouching’
hiding
scared of adulthood
trying to dismiss fears - disjunction
