Cone gatherers

Question 1

First line

Answer 1

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

Question 2

First seeing of duror

Answer 2

Stood duror the game keeper in an icy sweat of hatred

Question 3

Durors description of Calum
Evil

Answer 3

Feeble minded hunchback grovelling

Question 4

Calum’s fondness of the doll
Innocence

Answer 4

It was a small wooden doll naked, with a comical red cheeked face: it had one leg missing

Question 5

Deer drive Calum’s deer save
Good vs evil

Answer 5

Calum flung himself upon the deer, clasped it around the neck and tried to comfort it”

Question 6

Dying rabbit in snare
Innocence
Nature

Answer 6

No creature on earth would help it, other rabbits would attack it, because it was crippled

Question 7

LRC when Calum dies
Class

Answer 7

then she went down on her knees near the blood and spit cones

Question 8

Neils reaction to the beach hut
Class

Answer 8

we could have perished in the storm, for all she cared, was that not murder

Question 9

Durors statement about mood
Evil

Answer 9

“in a mood for murder, rape or suicide

Question 10

Plotting to rid Calum
Tree metaphor
Evil

Answer 10

“the overspreading tree of revulsion in him”

Question 11

Deer drive
Calum being hunted

Answer 11

Calum was no longer one of the beaters: he too himself was a deer hunted by remorseless men

Question 12

Durors developing insanity

Answer 12

He seemed to be laughing in some kind of berserk joy

Question 13

Durors comparison to tree in winter
Evil

Answer 13

Durors voice was stripped of emotion as a winters tree

Question 14

Durors insanity fruit of madness
Evil

Answer 14

“Do you really, he thought, see this tree growing and spreading in my mind? And its fruit madness

Question 15

LRC cleansing
Good V’s Evil
Character development (LRC) Class

Answer 15

“as she wept pity, and purified hope, and joy, welled up in my heart

Question 16

Duror slaughtering the deer

Answer 16

e former’s head with one hand cut its throat savagely

Question 17

Calum’s reaction to duror

Answer 17

He began to whimper, and tilting over’

Question 18

Durors subhuman description of Calum and Neil

Answer 18

strong, tall, healthy, intelligent men were killing one another while… those two sub humans lived in peace

Question 19

Roderick response to his mother’s lack of empathy for the cone gatherers

Answer 19

there was room for us all mother

Question 20

Roderick reaction to the car lift

Answer 20

Human beings are more important that dogs

Question 21

Roderick pilgrimage

Answer 21

.’duror was a barrier he could not pass

Question 22

Calum’s comparison to a dog

Answer 22

like a dog in the presence of someone who had been cruel to it’

Question 23

Neil comparing Calum to a monkey

Answer 23

Are you a monkey wanting to spend all your life in that tree

Question 24

Durors comparison to a tree when planning to take out Calum

Answer 24

‘He was like a tree, still showing green leaves ; but underground death was creeping along the roots

Question 25

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

Answer 25

“Human beings are more important than dogs

Question 26

Neils outrage at the class system

Answer 26

“The trees are more precious than we are

Question 27

Calum’s emersivness in the trees

Answer 27

“He was as indigenous as squirrel or bird

Question 28

Calum when duror is stalking them

Answer 28

“He became like an animal in danger with no way of escape

Question 29

Class
Description of setting

Answer 29

‘The mansion behind its private fence of giant silver firs

Question 30

Birds flying around calum

Answer 30

‘Chaffinches fluttered around him…beautiful with trust

Question 31

e Duror’s
breakdown, mental fragility
and loss of control. This
exposes he tormented
mind

Answer 31

‘stagger about as if he was
drunk or has wakened from a
nightmare.’

Question 32

‘I object to such a
humiliation on my own land

Answer 32

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.

Question 33

This emphasises LRCs power and authority
as the head of the estate. It also suggests
her disapproval of the lower classes

Answer 33

“Neil felt rather than saw how she recoiled from
Calum”

Question 34

This emphasises how Roderick dislikes how the brothers
are being treated and feels bad because he didn’t stick up
for them.

Answer 34

‘We didn’t treat the fairly’

Question 35

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.

Answer 35

“ it was as if the rotting tree itself
had moved”