The Werewold Quotes Flashcards
Context
Which gets stoned to death
A child takes oat cakes to her sick grandma
When attacked by a wolf takes fathers knife and slashes its paw and puts it in her basket
The grandma is sick in bed but the girl discovers the paw is a human hand and pulls the covers to see a stump
She calls for help and neighbours stone the women to death
The child lives in her home
The narrator and the nature of the country
It is a northern country, they have cold weather, they have cold hearts
The setting
Soon it came on to snow so thickly that the he path and any footsteps, track or spoor that might have been upon it were obscured
Critic- Helen Simpson
The heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straightjackets of history and ideology and biological essentialism
