Death Flashcards
1
Q
HF 1
A
“It’s a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He’s been shot in de back. Come in, Huck, but don’t look at his face - it’s too gashly”
2
Q
HF 2
A
‘Jim says, kind of solemn: ‘He ain’t a-comin’ back no mo’, Huck”
3
Q
TT 1
A
“Grief had formed, taken shape, a diamond shape, its four angles stapled onto her forehead, each shoulder, her stomach.”
4
Q
TT 2
A
“the five prayers. They were the only challenge, the last touch with normality, without them she would have fallen, lost awareness of the shift of day into night”
5
Q
Robert J. Lowenhertz on Mark Twain
A
“Most shocking to a sensitive young boy was the terrible memory of the death of his father… the boy had secretly watched the family doctor perform a post-mortem on his father’s body”
