Hearth Lesson

Question 1

Memory triggered

Answer 1

“Either phrase will bring it back ‘money to burn, burning a hole in your pocket’ “

Question 2

sense of place

Answer 2

“I am crouched by the fire in the flat in Séan MacDermott street”

Question 3

Allusion to greek mythology

Answer 3

“While Zeus and Hera battle it out”
“For his every thunderbolt, she had the killing glance”

Question 4

Poker metaphor

Answer 4

“She’d see his fancyman and raise him Cosmo Snooker Hall”
“He’ll raise her airs and graces or the mental state of her siblings”

Question 5

Tennis metaphor

Answer 5

“I’m net, umpire and court; most balls are lobbed over my head”

Question 6

Fight is better than silence

Answer 6

“Even then I can judge it’s better than brooding and silence”

Question 7

Poverty

Answer 7

“Even then I can tell it was money, the lack of it”

Question 8

climax

Answer 8

“Nothing prepared us”
“A weariness came over her, she though the lot in the fire”
“She’d had the last astonishing word”

Question 9

The flames

Answer 9

“The flames were blue and pink and green, a marvellous sight, an alchemical scene”

Question 10

Mother is trapped

Answer 10

“It’s not enough”
“The flames sheered from cinder to chimney breast like trapped exotic birds”