Island Quotes: Island Flashcards
What is the significant quote which depicts the sudden removal of generations of history from the island?
‘Found no McPhedran’s on the island or the sea’
What does the narrator state about the time she was born?
‘By the time she was born the intertwined history of her family and the island was already far advanced’
How is the beginning of the change coming to the Island depicted?
‘By the time of her early memories, the Government had already built a wharf at the island which was superior to any on the mainland’
How is tourism first indicated by the narrator?
‘During the lobster season, men came to live in the shacks and shanties they erected along the shore’
How is family duty depicted through Agnes’ relatives?
‘Some of her relatives wanted “some McPhedran” to remain on the Island’ because she was “used to it”
How is the weakening of family ties depicted?
‘They were interested in maintaining tradition as long as they were not the ones to maintain that specific part of it’
What does Agnes realise about the changing times on the Island?
‘Mainland boat operators began to offer trips around the Island’, taking tourists on ‘circumnavigational voyages’
What is Agnes told she must do towards the end of the novel?
‘She will have to live somewhere else’
What does Agnes realise about ownership of the Island?
‘Despite generations of her people being ‘of the island’ they had never really owned it in any legal sense’
