Nine Lives Causeway

Question 1

Motif for fear
1) Danger of Marsh

2) Visual imagery of marshes

3) Sound after pony and trap crash

Answer 1

1) “Treacherous quicksand’s”- danger of the marsh- foreshadow

2) “sucked into marsh…sinking”- reflecting plot, dangers he experiences, pathetic fallacy

3) “terrified sobbing”- vulnerability of marsh, symbol of impending danger

Question 2

Isolated
1) Location of the Marsh

2) Context for point before

3) Description of deceitful marsh

Answer 2

1) “Very edge of World”-away from civilisation-vulnerability, supernatural usually attacks the vulnerable

2) “a christmas carol”, scrooge isolated mentally and attacked by supernatural

3) “still and silent”- false sense of security

Question 3

Mystery+ foreshadowing
1) Urge Kipps experiences when first seeing marshes
2) Description of mystery

Answer 3

1) “glittering beckoning marshes”- Kipps has unexplainable attraction to marshes- links to supernatural, not rational

2) “Mysterious and shining beauty”- juxtaposes earlier descriptions of threat

3) “rising water”-impending threat,, meaning 2- water rises to conceal truth like a blanket