Cone Gatherers

Question 1

Tree of hatred and revulsion (Hatred, deception, nature)

Answer 1

“What Duror heard was a roaring within him, as if that tree of hatred and revulsion was being tossed by a gale.”

Question 2

Duror’s inner decay and outer deception (deception, nature, evil)

Answer 2

“He was like a tree still straight, still showing green leaves; but underground death was creeping along the roots.”

Question 3

Duror’s evil is exposed to Roderick (Evil, deception, nature)

Answer 3

“The lurker under the cypress, entangled in the thin green bony arms that curled out like an octopus’s.”

“He felt cold and frightened, and sick at heart. Here at the very hut was the most evil presence of all, and it was visible.”

Question 4

Graham senses Duror’s evil (Evil, nature)

Answer 4

“…but when, a minute later, Duror was stalking away towards the point, it was as if the rotting tree itself had moved.”

Question 5

Neil expresses his feelings of constraint and entrapment (nature, confinement)

Answer 5

“He hated these cones, which kept them prisoners in this wood just as the snare held the rabbit.”

Question 6

Neil is ashamed and scared by LRC when caught in the beach house (Social Class, shame)

Answer 6

“He could not lift his head… A lifetime of frightened submissiveness held it down.”

Question 7

Neil angrily responds to LRC/Graham’s call for help with Roderick (Discrimination, social class)

Answer 7

“She cannot one day treat us as lower than dogs, and next day order us to do her bidding.”

Question 8

Calum is scared when he first encounters Duror and attempts to hide. (fear, evil)

Answer 8

“Calum, demoralised as always by hatred, had cowered against the hut, hiding his face.”

Question 9

Calum is at one with nature and bears sympathy towards the injured mammal. (compassion, nature)

Answer 9

“He shared the suffering of the rabbit.”

Question 10

Duror approaches the CGs in the tree and Calum is scared. (fear, evil, nature)

Answer 10

“Calum was not reassured; he still whimpered and cowered, like a dog in the presence of someone who has been cruel to it.”

Question 11

Calum is picked upon by others and can be hunted. (nature, discrimination)

Answer 11

“Calum was no longer one of the beaters; he too was a deer hunted by remorseless men.”

Question 12

Calum shows sympathy and protectiveness towards the deer. (nature, compassion)

Answer 12

“Screaming in sympathy, heedless of the danger of being shot, Calum flung himself upon the deer…”

Question 13

LRC discusses the inferiority of the lower classes. (social class, discrimination)

Answer 13

“Your father’s right. After this war, the lower orders are going to be frightfully presumptuous.”

Question 14

Tulloch discusses LRCs inner conflict. (inner conflict, religion, social class)

Answer 14

“She’s a good woman really; but she’s got a code to live by.”

Question 15

Lady RC shows prejudice towards the lower classes. (discrimination, social class)

Answer 15

“We must not regard everyone as our equal… They are our inferiors.”

Question 16

Roderick’s understanding of war and conflict. (war, g vs e)

Answer 16

“Roderick knew that the struggle between good and evil never rested: in the world, and in every human being, it went on.”

Question 17

Duror’s hatred of Calum, contrast of sympathy and apathy. (g vs e, compassion, hatred, discrimination, nature)

Answer 17

“Duror the gamekeeper, in an icy sweat of hatred with his gun aimed all the time at the feebleminded hunchback grovelling over the rabbit.”

Question 18

Duror discusses the joy he would feel if Calum were to die. (hatred)

Answer 18

“To hear the obscene squeal of the killed dwarf would have been for him… a release from the noose of disgust and despair.”

Question 19

LRC expresses her worries to Roderick regarding his affection towards the lower classes (social class, discrimination)

Answer 19

“It’s taken centuries of breeding to produce our kind, for God’s sake don’t get us mixed.”

Question 20

Neil tells Tulloch of the beach house incident. (discrimination)

Answer 20

“We were driven out like slaves. Her dog was to be saved from the storm but not my brother.”

Question 21

LRC looks forward to the CG’s departure. (Discrimination, social class)

Answer 21

“The wood will feel healthier and look lovelier with them gone.”

Question 22

Tulloch describes Duror’s appearance after slaying the deer. (insanity)

Answer 22

“He had the appearance of a drunk man, unshaven, slack-mouthed, mumbling, rather glaikit.”

Question 23

Neil is bitter regarding his accommodation (discrimination)

Answer 23

“…their hut, which to him remained a symbol of humiliation.”

Question 24

Duror knows not the cause of his evil (evil, nature)

Answer 24

“…the overspreading tree of revulsion in him, but he could not tell the force which made it grow.”

Question 25

Roderick highlights the inequality of the incidents (social class, discrimination)

Answer 25

“Human beings are more important than dogs.”

Question 26

Duror is mentally uhinged and wanders through the town. (Insanity, evil)

Answer 26

“He felt in a mood for rape, murder or suicide.”

Question 27

LRC after Calum’s death (religion, remorse)

Answer 27

“She could not pray but she could weep.”

Question 28

Duror discusses the torturous ways he wishes to kill Calum with. (religion, hatred)

Answer 28

“His going therefore must be a destruction, an agony, a crucifixion.”

Question 29

Neil compares the justification of war to his situation. (war, discrimination)

Answer 29

“The war was being fought so that ordinary humble people could live in peace without being bullied and enslaved by brutal men with power.”