Small Island- Quotes Flashcards
‘A _____ man who looked to be ____ from ______ chocolate.’ - Prologue
‘A black man who looked to be carved from melting chocolate.’ - Prologue
‘His ____ were ______, not ____ like they should be…’ - Prologue
‘His lips were brown, not pink like they should be…’ - Prologue
‘_____ was ___!’ - Hortense’s narrative voice
‘There was I!’ - Hortense’s narrative voice
“me ________” - Hortense, Jamaican dialect
“me sprigadee” - Hortense, Jamaican dialect
‘My ______ was a man of _____. A ___ of ________. A ___ of _________. Noble in a way that made him a _____.’ - Hortense (hyperbole)
‘My father was a man of class. A man of character. A man of intelligence. Noble in a way that made him a legend.’ - Hortense (hyperbole)
“Do not _____ near me with that _____,” I ________” - Hortense
Do not come near me with that thing,” I screamed” - Hortense
A ____ falling slowly from the sky towards a _____: a ______ stripped of all its ______ caught the ____ in its black _____.’ - Queenie (metaphorical language)
A doll falling slowly from the sky towards a tree: a branch stripped of all its leaves caught the doll in its black spikes.’ - Queenie (metaphorical language)
“No ___ to _____ me, to ____ me, show me the _____ of my _____.’ - Queenie (Mr Todd’s concerns about Queenie)
“No man to protect me, to guide me, show me the error of my ways.’ - Queenie (Mr Todd’s concerns about Queenie)
“the ____ from a chicken’s ____” - Queenie
“the peck from a chicken’s beak” - Queenie
“This _______ panted and _____ and ___” - Queenie
“This woman panted and thrust and bit” - Queenie
‘In my _______ of ____ - from the ____, from the ______, from ______ - I looked like a ___.’ - Gilbert
‘In my uniform of blue - from the left, from the right, from behind - I looked like a god.’ - Gilbert
‘…her ___ brown _____ alert as a _____.’ - Gilbert
‘…her wide brown eyes alert as a cobra’s.’ - Gilbert
“if the _________ sun had been _______ on me while ______ girls ______ me with _______ leaves, it could not have felt any more ______.” - Gilbert
“if the Caribbean sun had been shining on me while naked girls fanned me with banana leaves, it could not have felt any more pleasant.” - Gilbert
“I can’t just…____ that little _______ _____ alone in this _______, full of _______ like Mr _____” - Gilbert
“I can’t just…leave that little coloured baby alone in this country, full of people like Mr Bligh” - Gilbert
‘Groups of ______-coloured _______ gesticulating with _____ as ______ as _____.’ - Bernard
‘Groups of carnival-coloured natives gesticulating with arms as skinny as sticks.’ - Bernard
‘_____ people all _______.’ - Bernard
‘Brown people all around.’ - Bernard
“this ______ ______” - Bernard
“this bloody darkie” - Bernard
“I’ll _____ you” I ____ her.” - Bernard (ambiguous end to his narrative)
“I’ll leave you” I told her.” - Bernard (ambiguous end to his narrative)
‘_____ as two ______ clowns we _______ with this _____’ - farce/psychical comedy
‘Silly as two pantomime clowns we struggled with this trunk’ - farce/psychical comedy
‘…the ________ bees ________ him made him ______ as a ______ bear.’- farce/psychical comedy
‘…the writhing bees covering him made him furry as a grizzly bear.- farce/psychical comedy
‘_______, sagging, _______, until it _______, flip-flopping like a _____ bird in a ____.’ - farce/physical comedy
‘deflating, sagging, drooping, until it dangled, flip-flopping like a dead bird in a tree.’ - farce/physical comedy
“_______ stood before me as _____ as _____.”
“Gilbert stood before me as naked as Adam.”
“_______ his _____ over his ________.”
“Cupped his hands over his disgustingness.”
“But I just get _____, man, and I not _______ your ____ yet.”
“But I just get here, man, and I not fucked your wife yet.”
“I say do u wanna _____ in the ____ with me? _______ room”
“I say do u wanna sleep in the bed with me? Plenty room”
“Suddenly her hand, ______ and ______, gently ______ itself over mine”
“Suddenly her hand, delicate and tender, gently placed itself over mine”
“People always _____ on us _______… The _____ has the same ________”
“People always stare on us Hortense… The King has the same problem”
“The ____ was ______ so people might ____ amongst their own ____”
“The war was fought so people might live amongst their own kind”
“Why ____ not?” Bernard asked. “It was so ______ spoken that we all looked at him. So _______ asked that it should have been _____.”
“Why ever not?”Bernard asked. “It was so desperately spoken that we all looked at him. So earnestly asked that it should have been funny.”
“I’ll _____ you up a ____ in the _____ room”
“I’ll make you up a bed in the spare room”
“She’d only got off her _______ to put the ______ sign up and _______ out some of her ________ _______ ice”
“She’d only got off her lounger to put the closed sign up and measure out some of her blinking coconut ice”
“As out of _____ as a _______ tree ______ on a road”
“As out of place as a fallen tree trunk on a road”
“You can ____ where you want, Miss ____ Class”
“You can eat where you want, Miss High Class”
“That ___ is a _____. You’ll be as ____ as _______ with him”
“That man is a brick. You’ll be as safe as houses with him”
“_______ as a greasy _______”
“Slippery as a greasy sausage”
“If a _____ in its ______ is the work of ___, then this _______ predicament between his ____ was… the work of the _____”
“If a body in its beauty is the work of God, then this hideous predicament between his legs was… the work of the devil”
“___ him _____ me in the _____”
“felt him leave me in the night”
“________ my ____ against the ____”
“straightened my coat against the cold”
“You _____ me all this ____ for just ____?”
“You bring me all this way for just this?”
“It _______ to do with __, man. It not my _____”
“It nothing to do with me, man. It not my baby”
