Inhabitants of Crythin Gifford

Question 1

Secrecy
1) Jerome rejects his job as a result

2) Jerome reaction again

3) Daily reaction to mention of EMH

4) Context

Answer 1

1) “I shall not go there”- no explanation, despise of place

2) “hands continues to scrabble about like the paws of some struggling creature”- Jerome mad, desperate to keep knowledge to himself

3) “straight look…blunt no”- mention of EMH, daily’s reaction

4) Edwardian times men were not meant to express emotions, inhabitants still do as if to warn Kipps desperately

Question 2

fear of woman in black
1) Daily expresses the terror of the WIB

2) physical trauma Jerome

3) Arthur is fortunate

Answer 2

1) “Those who have suffered worst say least”- emphasises Jerome’s fear and reveals secret

2) “frozen, pale, his throat moving as if he were unable to mutter”- physical trauma WIB causes

3) “The rest of us have to stay, we’ve got to live with it”- Daily emphasising Kipp’s luck to leave/ emphasising severity of trauma

Question 3

Kindness
1) What does daily offer

2) Daily does when he finds Kipps fainted

3) Keckwick transportation

4) Context

Answer 3

1) “a night in the crifford arms”- thoughtful and kind

2) “dragging… up the stairs of his bedroom”- shows physical length that daily will go to in order to care for Kipps

3) “perfectly obliging”- Despite father’s death in marsh he provides consistent transport for Kipps- doesn’t want repeat of death

4) Kipps makes Daily his sons Godfather, at the time significant because of strong religious beliefs