Cone gatherers Flashcards
First line
It was a good tree by the sea loch with many cones and much sunshine it was homely to with rests among its topmost branches
First seeing of duror
Stood duror the game keeper in an icy sweat of hatred
Durors description of Calum
Evil
Feeble minded hunchback grovelling
Calum’s fondness of the doll
Innocence
It was a small wooden doll naked, with a comical red cheeked face: it had one leg missing
Deer drive Calum’s deer save
Good vs evil
Calum flung himself upon the deer, clasped it around the neck and tried to comfort it”
Dying rabbit in snare
Innocence
Nature
No creature on earth would help it, other rabbits would attack it, because it was crippled
LRC when Calum dies
Class
then she went down on her knees near the blood and spit cones
Neils reaction to the beach hut
Class
we could have perished in the storm, for all she cared, was that not murder
Durors statement about mood
Evil
“in a mood for murder, rape or suicide
Plotting to rid Calum
Tree metaphor
Evil
“the overspreading tree of revulsion in him”
Deer drive
Calum being hunted
Calum was no longer one of the beaters: he too himself was a deer hunted by remorseless men
Durors developing insanity
He seemed to be laughing in some kind of berserk joy
Durors comparison to tree in winter
Evil
Durors voice was stripped of emotion as a winters tree
Durors insanity fruit of madness
Evil
“Do you really, he thought, see this tree growing and spreading in my mind? And its fruit madness
LRC cleansing
Good V’s Evil
Character development (LRC) Class
“as she wept pity, and purified hope, and joy, welled up in my heart
Duror slaughtering the deer
e former’s head with one hand cut its throat savagely
Calum’s reaction to duror
He began to whimper, and tilting over’
Durors subhuman description of Calum and Neil
strong, tall, healthy, intelligent men were killing one another while… those two sub humans lived in peace
Roderick response to his mother’s lack of empathy for the cone gatherers
there was room for us all mother
Roderick reaction to the car lift
Human beings are more important that dogs
Roderick pilgrimage
.’duror was a barrier he could not pass
Calum’s comparison to a dog
like a dog in the presence of someone who had been cruel to it’
Neil comparing Calum to a monkey
Are you a monkey wanting to spend all your life in that tree
Durors comparison to a tree when planning to take out Calum
‘He was like a tree, still showing green leaves ; but underground death was creeping along the roots
When Roderick says this after remembering how dogs were allowed in his family’s car when he was told off for asking if they could offer Calum and Neil a lift, it suggests that he is naive to the strict social class boundaries which his family lives by
“Human beings are more important than dogs
Neils outrage at the class system
“The trees are more precious than we are
Calum’s emersivness in the trees
“He was as indigenous as squirrel or bird
Calum when duror is stalking them
“He became like an animal in danger with no way of escape
Class
Description of setting
‘The mansion behind its private fence of giant silver firs
Birds flying around calum
‘Chaffinches fluttered around him…beautiful with trust
e Duror’s
breakdown, mental fragility
and loss of control. This
exposes he tormented
mind
‘stagger about as if he was
drunk or has wakened from a
nightmare.’
‘I object to such a
humiliation on my own land
LCR and class conflict. In
this scene she is horrified
by the lower class CGs and
she can’t see the cruelty of
the situation. Her class
overpowers her and
determines her choices
revealing her struggle.
This emphasises LRCs power and authority
as the head of the estate. It also suggests
her disapproval of the lower classes
“Neil felt rather than saw how she recoiled from
Calum”
This emphasises how Roderick dislikes how the brothers
are being treated and feels bad because he didn’t stick up
for them.
‘We didn’t treat the fairly’
The tree is a metaphor for Duror’s
evil as it slowly spreads through
him during the novel.
The rotting represents Durors
fracturing mind as he slowly goes
more insane or mad.
“ it was as if the rotting tree itself
had moved”
