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15 Cards in this Set
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This was the terrifying mystery why animals he loved should kill one another. |
Chapter 1. Innocence/represents good. Doesn't understand the dog eat dog world. |
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Calum, demoralised as always by hatred, had cowered against the hut hiding his face. |
Chapter 1 - scared by Duror. Innocent. Gentle. |
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His face... Beautiful with trust. |
Calum's innocence shown in his face. Very trusting. Naive? |
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He too was a deer hunted by remorseless men. |
Chapter 6 - calum becomes the hunted, class divide, affinity with nature. |
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You're better and wiser than any of them. |
Neil speaking to calum. Shows us and them attitudes. |
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No creature on earth would help it; other rabbits would attack it because it was crippled. |
Representative of calum. He too is victimised by others around him. Innocence. |
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You're a man of 31, not a child of 10. |
Shows calums simpleness. Naivity. Innocent. Good. |
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His rage had been quiet but intimidating... He would seize the first chance to hound them out of the wood. |
First impression of duror. Evil. Connotations with dogs 'hound'. Animal like. |
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Hidden amongst the spruces... In an icy sweat of hatred, with his gun aimed all the time at the feeble minded hunchback grovelling over the rabbit. |
Oxymoron, symbolic of duror hiding true feelings and identity, evil. |
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Since childhood Duror had been repelled by any thing living that had an imperfection or deformity. |
Hates calum. Serves as a reminder of his wife's paralysis. CGs are catalyst to provoking violent reaction to internal conflict. |
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The overspreading tree of revulsion in him. |
Symbolism of the forest. It initially represents good but like Duror, as the story continues it turns dark and evil. |
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In the mood for murder, rape or suicide. |
Foreshadows the ending. Duror filled with evil. Filled with "infinite desolation" and kills himself and calum. |
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He was like a tree, still showing green leaves but underground death was creeping along the roots. |
Duror was normal on the surface but had deep rooted evil within. |
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His going therefore must be a destruction, an agony, a crucifixion. |
Reference to religion. Predicting calums death. Hanging from a tree. |
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Though he smiled, he was dead. |
Innocence even in death. |
