Island Quotes: The Boat Flashcards
What does the narrator state during his initial memory of his childhood?
‘There are times… when I awake at 4am and imagine that my father is waiting for me in the room below’
What does the narrator state about change and constancy regarding the boat?
‘In its constancy, I was not aware of change’
What does the narrator state about the importance of the boat?
‘They repeated “the boat” at the end of all their questions… it must be very important to everyone’
What does the narrator state about the name of the boat being named after his mother?
‘It was called after her as another link in the chain of tradition’
What does the narrator state about his mother and her bloodline?
‘My mother was of the sea, as were all her people’
How does the narrator describe his fathers bedroom?
‘Magazines and books covered the bureau and competed with the clothes for domination of the chair’
How does the narrator describe his mothers attitude towards paying for books?
‘Although my mother resented the expense’
What does his mother state about her daughters playing at the wharf?
‘Nothing will happen to them there… They could be doing worse things in worse places’
What does his mother state about God and books?
‘God will see to those who waste their lives reading useless books when they should be about their work’
How does the mother describe the restaurant her daughters work at?
‘It is not run by our people, instead run by outsiders for outsiders’
What does the narrators father do with the tourists on his boat?
‘He sang all the old sea chanteys’
How does the narrator describe his mother’s attitude towards him at the end of the story?
‘She looks upon the sea with love and on you with bitterness, because the one has been so constant and the other so untrue’
What does the narrator state depicting the loneliness of his mother?
‘She alone of all the Lynns has neither son nor son-in-law who walks towards the boat’
