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10 Cards in this Set
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IN THE WINTER DARK "I'm out here again, talking telling the story to the quiet night. Maurice Stubbs listening to his own voice, like every night this past year." (1) |
-Confessional, no reason to lie or person to lie to -Personifies night -Introduces Maurice and the solitude |
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IN THE WINTER DARK "I don't know how it works - I'm no witch-doctor - but I know I remember things I can't possibly know" (2) |
-A supernatural idea that the character accepts as supernatural, mimicking the reader's acceptance of the "rules" that books create and adhere to -Maurice admitting he doesn't know about it: adding to the uncertain tone of the book |
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IN THE WINTER DARK "It's strange how other people's memories become your own. You recall things they've told you. You go over things until you think you can see the joins, the cells of it of all. And there's dreams. I have these dreams. Dead people, broken people bleed things into you, like there's some pressure point because they can't get it out any more, can't get it told." (2) |
-Starts with a reasonable statement that the reader can accept and then branches off to a supernatural idea. -The reader is not able to completely dismiss the entire argument because there is validity in (at least the first part of) the statement -This creates negative capability |
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IN THE WINTER DARK "I'm not mad. Not yet." (2) |
-Takes credibility away from Maurice -Ironic: "I'm not mad" is what crazy people say -Foreshadowing that s#it is about to go down |
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IN THE WINTER DARK "Out in the dark she saw the anaemic cheek if a full moon rising from the forest. Stumps, windrows, clumps of gravel behind their own shadows." (9) |
-Insight into Ronnie's perception of the world communicated through tenebrous imagery. |
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IN THE WINTER DARK "The old man had his practical side, but there was more to his feeling about the forest than that. Well, there's all those fairy tales for a start, all those stories we brought with us form another continent, other centuries. Whatever it was, the old man did what he could to bash and burn it into submission." (23) |
-Implies that the Sink has a past of being more than just a setting having a mysterious and nefarious background. -Reoccurring theme of reason versus "emotion" |
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IN THE WINTER DARK
"I have Ida dreams all the time. Some nights I have it so bad it has me waking up thinking I am Ida" (25) |
-All at once time -Becoming one with the setting and characters around you. -(Possibly) further takes away from Maurice's credibility. |
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IN THE WINTER DARK "You can keep it firm and tidy in you for a time, but, Godalmighty, when the continents begin to shift in you, you can't tell tomorrow from yesterday, you run just like that herd of pigs, over the cliff and into the water" (34) |
-Introduces the theme of non-linear time. -Reoccurring biblical allusion to Legion. -Fluidity of forms. |
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IN THE WINTER DARK "The Sink is the kind of place that's always failed to deliver." (36) |
-Personifies the Sink to be more than a setting. -Back story of the nefarious nature of the Sink. |
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IN THE WINTER DARK "She was mad, at least we thought she was. Good God, maybe she had dreams too." (37) |
-Associates madness with a supernatural ability he possesses. -Associates the supernatural ability directly with the Sink in two time periods. |
