CH6-Joshua

Question 1

What is the plot summary for Joshua?

Answer 1

• Most conflict
• Flashback to The Awful Occasion- Jeanette’s ‘natural’ mother comes to claim her
• Jeanette and Melanie are denounced at Church- M repents
• J is incarcerated after a day of exorcism
• J repents (she is hungry)
• Two feverish dreams (the orange demon)
• J continues Church work and meets Katy
• J spits on M’s fiancee

Question 2

What are the key methods that we see in Joshua?

Answer 2

-capitalisation
-metanarratives of the City of Lost Chances and the Forbidden City (motif of stone walls)
-imagery of separation
-violent imagery
-elemental imagery
-child-like imagery
-orange demon

Question 3

What quotes show the method of: capitalisation?

Answer 3

“Uncertainty to me was like Aardvark to other people. A curious thing I had no notion of… Uncertainty was what the Heathen felt, and I was chosen by God”

Question 4

What quotes support the method of: metanarratives of the City of Lost Chances and the Forbidden City (imagery of stone walls)

Answer 4

“an iron stairway spiralled up and up”
“stone”
“rough brown pebble”

Question 5

What quotes support the method of: imagery of separation?

Answer 5

“picking up her Bible”
“locked herself in the kitchen”

Question 6

What quotes support the method of:violent imagery?

Answer 6

“a blow that wrapped round myhead like a bandage”
“his hand was hot and heavy”
“praying over me, laying hands on me, urging me to repent my sins”

Question 7

What quotes support the method of: elemental imagery?

Answer 7

“burnt them one night”

Question 8

What quotes support the method of: child-like imagery?

Answer 8

” cried and cried and cried”
“Katy looked at the sun, Katy looked like fun”

Question 9

“I felt a searing pain…

Answer 9

“I felt a searing pain against my knuckles; it was Melanie’s ring”

Question 10

“to the pure…

Answer 10

“to the pure all things are pure”