Cone Gatherers Quotes Flashcards
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Calum quotes that show his connection with nature
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- ‘This was the terrifying mystery, why creatures he loved should kill one another.’
- ‘He became an owl himself’
2
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Calum’s innocence
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- ‘His sunburnt face was alert and beautiful with trust’
- ‘He could not understand it, and so he tried with success, to forget it.’
3
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War
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- ‘felt that he had done no wrong, and kept his head high, he would become respected in the end.’ CO
4
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Neil’s irritation towards their treatment and the upper classes
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- He ‘gazed at the great house with a calm yet bitter intentness’
- ‘Box fit for monkeys’ - ‘We’re human beings just like them’
6
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Duror’s initial irritation
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- ‘Overspreading tree of revulsion in him’ - ‘feebleminded hunchback’ - ‘icy sweat of hatred’
7
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Quotes that show attitude towards Peggy
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- ‘with a shudder’ - ‘wobbling masses of pallid fat’ - ‘her wheedling voice reminded him of the hunchback’s’
8
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Deer Drive LRC
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- ‘avoided looking at the hunchback’ - ‘glanced towards the little cone gatherer with aversion’
9
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Quotes that show we should pity Duror
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- ‘you talk to them oftener than you talk to your wife’ (dogs) - ‘I ken a heart with thorns in it’ - ‘We’ve just got to make the best of things’
10
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Duror losing it
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- ‘He was like a tree still straight, still showing green leaves; but underground death was creeping along the roots’
- ‘His gun was close by; he thought that, salvation being impossible, it offered at least an end’
- ‘The vague yet eager mumbles contrasted with his usual cool instructions’
11
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Lady Runcie Campbell conflicting ideologies
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- ‘We cannot have them dictating to us in every way.’
- ‘a determination to see right done, even at the expense of rank and pride.’
- ‘I object to being subjected to such humiliation on my own land’
12
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Deer Drive Duror
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- ‘laughing in some kind of berserk joy’
- ‘cut its throat savagely’ - ‘Duror had the appearance of a drunk man, unshaven, slack-mouthed, mumbling, rather glaikit.’
12
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Deer Drive LRC
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- ‘avoided looking at the hunchback’ - ‘glanced towards the little cone gatherer with aversion’ - ‘the situation was so grotesque’
12
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Calum deer drive
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- ‘he too was a deer hunted by remorseless men’ - ‘screaming in sympathy’
- ‘with wails of lament’ ‘dashed on at a demented speed’
13
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Roderick
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- ‘He did not see things as a baronet’s heir should’
- ‘Human beings are more important than dogs’
