Past the Shallows Quotes Flashcards
Quote about the father
“He had Harry in a headlock, wrapped his thick arm around Harry’s neck and pulled tight.” (violent visual imagery, aggression reveals extreme tension)
Quote indicating past trauma
“She just had a heart attack and crashed the car and bloody died” 104 (blunt tone, slang, polysyndeton heightens the drama and indicates a sense of exacerbation)
Quote which shows implications of trauma
“Miles saw the wave; he saw Dad push Harry.” (repetition of saw reinforces his inability to act, he is a passive bystander, symbolism of water death, foreshadowing becomes reality, sense of inevitability)
Quote with symbolism of the permanent damage that trauma can have
“It still had a scar, a line where the bark had never grown back. And it was amazing that it had survived it all. They had hit it so hard.” (visual imagery, personification of scar, symbolism of permanent damage, high modality)
Quote which shoes deep trauma can lead to death
“What do you think happened to dad?” / “I hope he’s dead” pg.234-235 (duologue between Miles and Joe, speculative tone, juxtapositioning of hope and death creates a macabre hopeful tone, essentially a paradox)
Quote with foreshadowing
Miles knew the water. He could feel it. And he knew not to trust it.
Quote with symbolism
It would have survived if Jeff had just let it go, let it slide off the back of the boat. It had made it this far, battling its siblings, killing and feeding off them. Waiting. It would have been born strong, ready to hunt, ready to fight.
