OLIVE SENIOR/JANE EYRE QUOTES Flashcards

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Plants

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“shoots bent on conquest”, “invasive seedlings”
“the colonising ambitions of hitchhiking burrs”
“profligate, extravagant, reckless, improvident, weed”

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The Meditation of Yellow

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“you cannot erase the memory of my story”, “you cannot tear the song from my throat”.

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Brief Lives

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remains of young man are buried “so he can carry on growing”
“crossed the invisible boundary into rival political territory”

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Jane Eyre - setting

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“a wind fresh from Europe blew over the ocean and the air grew pure”

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Jane Eyre - Bertha

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“it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing; and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face.”

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