chapter 5 quotes/annotations

Question 1

‘As for Lola, she didn’t wish to dirty her cashmere by lying on the floor’
page 55

Answer 1

• mature mannerisms + characterisation
• Even though she is only 15, thus still a child, she seems to have matured due to personal situations. She no longer wishes to play about, she would rather stay clean.

Question 2

‘Lola put her arm across his shoulder and said, ‘It’s all right. We’ll be going home soon.’
page 57

Answer 2

• acts as a motherly/nurturing figure in absence of her mother for the boys.
• shows her maturity and ability to adapt to new situations

Question 3

‘which his young sisters had appeared, all four of them, standing around his bedside’
page 60

Answer 3

-even before the initial details of the dream, this immediately strikes the reader as strange as he is dreaming about his situation with his sisters.

Question 4

‘He woke, hot across his chest and throat, uncomfortably aroused’
page 60-

Answer 4

• Uncomfortable to read as it feels illegal. He has woken up aroused by a dream of his sisters which makes the reader question his character.
• Even though this does not allude to him being a criminal, it makes him seem very eerie.

Question 5

‘she was pleased rather than embarrassed and her fingers lightly brushed the fabric where it ballooned’
page 60

Answer 5

-Feels as though Lola likes this validation from Marshall and it makes the reader question how much she encourages it, despite knowing she is not to blame. (reaction to his compliment)

Question 6

‘He tilted his foot to examine the craftmanship’

page 61

Answer 6

• compliment that he enjoys from Lola

- He plays up to what she is saying

Question 7

‘D’you know, you remind me of my favourite sister’

page 61

Answer 7

• Links to page 60. This comment is highly inappropriate after his sexual dream.
• On second read we can see his criminal tendencies more notably from as early on as here

Question 8

‘He held his hand higher and tightened his grip’

page 61

Answer 8

• metaphor for hierarchy and manipulation

- we see here how he is dominating the conversation and interaction between the two

Question 9

‘he crossed and uncrossed his legs. Then he took a deep breath. ‘Bite it,’ he said softly. ‘You’ve got to bite it.’’
page 62

Answer 9

• Very uncomfortable to read

- He is exploiting Lola, a child, for his own sexual desires.

Question 10

‘Lola was laughing through her mouthful of Amo.’

page 62

Answer 10

• childish image. Not sexual in the slightest

- we don’t question Marshall as Lola is laughing, therefore, it seems quite innocent