language Flashcards
QUOTE for low standards (kings field)
“i don’t want to give you the wrong idea about that period at Kingsfield… a lot of it was… almost idyllic” she is usually poor in vocal! ironic. also shows powerful love for tommy
QUOTE: kathy being strong
“i wasn’t exactly the wilting type myself”
QUOTE: growth at cottages
“might have been fine at hailsham but looked immature at the cottages”
final page significance
kathy’s thoughts here are a metaphor for her life, showing she has always beefed fenced off and separated
explain purpose of euphemism in novel and for characters
gentler version of word with a hidden meaning (links in with theme of hiding truth) used to make sinister unsettling and mysterious atmosphere
used by characters to soften reality
two common euphemisms
“completion” “donation”
memory motif (QUOTE and give purpose)
makes narrator seem more credible because forgets things like human would. “ruth to play a music tape in billiards room before 4 o’clock on a wednesday” shows important detail to child
tommy as animal QUOTE
“mad animal”
tommy showing feelings QUOTE
“undisguised delight on his face” MOST HUMAN?
QUOTE and explain why tommy had tantrums (as said by kathy)
“maybe the reason you used to get like that was because at some level you already new”
QUOTE for kathy becoming more assertive
“a few months earlier i might have let it go”
QUOTE to show sex as sport or entertainment
“dancing or table tennis”
QUOTE for kathy practising sex
“i needed to get familiar”
QUOTE for animal v human contradiction
“students were reared in humane”
