The Golden Age Flashcards
Quotes to describe Franks suffering
“why is he was alive”
“damaged creature”
“tragic cursed” “deformed”
his parents “only light” she is splaying the pressure he has to become a “normal child again”
“violence” of polio” left him unable to “move unaided”
“terrible dream”
quotes to describe Franks growing optimism
"once you become used to your condition" "his imagination becomes free" "real wold" "save him" "poetry gave relief" "his future had been restored to him"
Quotes to describe Margrets suffering
“not just the sorrow” but the heavy “stone in her belly”
her child “lost her childhood”
her daughter was “the sacrifice” for the beauty she brought to the family.
quotes to describe Margrets empowerment
“want of a nail” which made the shoe lost
“reckless” and “out of line” for a housewife at the time”
quotes to describe Olives hardship
soldiers who had “lost faith in everything”
whose hearts were as empty as a “vast ocean”
quotes to describe olives passion
“it was nursing which sustained her”
quotes to describe Ida’s displacement/suffering
"ill-fated" voyage just like Europe "it was in the past" "her art" for "franks Survival" "courage" is "stripped" "foreignness and victimhood"
quotes to describe Ida’s optimism and new hope
woman that was “simple, at peace”
“revenge on fate”
“thank you note” for his recovery
in the moving moment while she was playing “all was forgiven between them”
allowed them to find honour within their position as “new Australians”
“lightness”
quotes to describe Frank and Elsa’s relationship
for frank Elsa becomes a “homing point” “ a place he can always return to”
because when they were together “everything turned out alright
quotes for Meyer and Frank
he felt a “sense of failure” and powerlessness” that he was not able to “protect his boy”
“unconditional love” which Frank provided
a smile of “delight spread across his face”giving Meyer a “sense of light”
