Past The Shallows Flashcards
Use of anecdotal evidence and fishing-like imagery. Contradiction between winter storms and peace described in the scene.
“…awesome to watch and not much fun to be in”
“near perfect three-foot lines”
“Winter brought massive swells, awesome to watch and not much fun to be in,”
“liquid mercury… The paddle was easy. The waves were easy. The ocean was at peace.”
End of the novel when Miles and Joe leave Bruny. Themes of Birth and Renewal. Idea of the ocean being a character.
“the water was calm, resting and waiting and letting them pass… Cloudy looked brand new. Just born”
“calm, resting and waiting”
Themes of memory with Cloudy Bay.
“everything was clean and golden and crisp”
“fine and white”
End of novel representing Miles’ inner struggle to stay awake to keep Harry and him alive.
Mother repeats “don’t got to sleep”
Turns into “Where’s Harry?”
Shows Miles’ realistaion that he is going to get stuck in Burny.
“He was going to get stuck. Stuck working for dad, stuck being responsible for Harry, stuck being responsible for everything.”
Cloaks the novel in optimism through bookending the novel with the same epigraph
“Out past the shallows, past the sandy-bottomed bays, comes the dark water—black and cold and roaring. Rolling out an invisible path, a new line for them to follow. To somewhere warm.”
Jeff guts open the mako shark and takes pleasure in killing it and it’s young.
“three pups spilled out; two dead and half eaten, the other trying to swim in it’s mother’s blood…”
“stabbed it (the baby shark) through the head.”
The beginning of the novel, represents Harry’s innocence and Miles’ recently lost.
“I’ve got you a Cradbury’s bag, A Cradbury’s bag!”
“You’re lucky you get seasick.”
Creates a sense of escalating dilemmas that ensures readers grasp the scale of the paternal toxicity, reflects Dad’s characterization.
“Battered cliffs, broken rocky beachers, caves well worn into the rock”
Extended metaphor of water in the anadiplosis (repeating an end of a sentence), essentializes Miles’ reflection that his Dad’s attributes are concurrently embedded within himself.
“Water that was always there. It would be there always, right inside him,”
Eradicates notion that Miles will echo his father’s violent response to pain
“The water rushes past… and no one can touch you,”
Antithetical anaphora, denounces the Dad’s moral dissolution through communicating the uselessness in his abusive coping mechanisms.
“Yelling at them. Yelling at no one,”
The fragile characterisation of Harry through his colloquial language.
“it nearly made Harry cry now, the way Miles’ eyelid was all purple - coming up real bad,”
