Quotes 1-10

Question 1

no souls?!

Answer 1

‘Did someone think we didn’t have souls?’

Question 2

Tommy parallel to childhood

Answer 2

’Tommy’s figure, raging, shouting, flinging his fists and kicking out’

Question 3

trashy Ruth

Answer 3

If you want to look for possibles… then you look in the gutter. You look in rubbish bins. Look down the toilet’

Question 4

how how how

Answer 4

‘How can you ask a world that has come to regard cancer as curable, how can you ask such a world to put away that cure, to go back to the dark days?’

Question 5

Shadows

Answer 5

‘You were kept in the shadows, and people did their best not to think about you. And if they did, they tried to convince themselves…That you were less than human, so it didn’t matter’

Question 6

Madame pity but degrading

Answer 6

‘Poor creatures’ What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?”

Question 7

Ruth rhetorical question

Answer 7

‘We’re modelled from trash… we all know it, so why don’t we just say it?’

Question 8

spiders

Answer 8

‘Madame was afraid of us. But she was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders’

Question 9

revulsion

Answer 9

‘I myself had to fight back my dread of you almost every day I was at Hailsham… I’d feel such revulsion’

Question 10

river metaphor

Answer 10

‘… but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart… It’s a shame Kath, because we’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever’