Crythin Giffford

Question 1

Supernatural
1) Trees in the churchyard

2) context for this

3) Citizens have a sense of foreboding

Answer 1

1) “two overhanging yew trees”- One meaning feeling of always being watched. Other meaning immortality of supernatural

2) Mr James, Ash tree, immortality of trees façade for supernatural

3) “you shouldn’t go alone”- men were supposed to keep emotions to themselves edwardian times

Question 2

Isolated
1) What part of England

2) Link to remoteness

Answer 2

1) “the corner of England”- secluded in nature, help is far away

2) “rural emptiness for miles”- lack of transport, civilisation, pony and trap common

Question 3

Accentuates Woman in black
1) first description of the town

2) What is graveyard symbolic of

3) When WIB arrives at graveyard

Answer 3

1) “gleaming with a curious blue-white sheen”- upon first sight, colours link to WIB, illness, cold, death, foreshadow

2) WIb, dead, haunting graveyard

3) “just as unobtrusively as she arrived”- arrives from thin air