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14 Cards in this Set
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It was a good tree |
Positive, peaceful, almost personification |
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Many cones |
Fruitful and possitive |
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Much sunshine |
Joyous, happy, warm |
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Branches as comfortable as chairs |
Cosy, safe, homely, relaxing |
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Greasy shed |
Cone gatherers hut. Contrast between main house |
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Hardly bigger than a rabbit hutch |
Small hut, animal connotations, class divide |
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A private fence of giant silver firs. |
Emphasises the class divide. Silver has connotations with wealth. Giant.. Inpenetrable |
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We carried dogs in the car. Human beings are more important than dogs. |
Roderick sticking up for CGs. Class divide. |
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We're human beings just like them. We need space to live and breathe. |
Suggestive that they are treated like animals and don't get simple luxuries |
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From the larch could be glimpsed, across various tinted crowns of the trees, the chimneys of the mansion. |
Crowns - wealth. Class divide |
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Don't get us mixed... Don't drag us down to their level |
LRCs husband speaking of the CGs |
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Why is it... That the innocent always have to br sacrificed? |
CGs speaking of the unfairness |
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Who does she think she is, that she orders us about like dogs? But if we were dogs, she'd treat us better than she does. |
CGs speak of how LRC treats them. Treated like dogs. |
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From his bag dropped a cone, and then another. |
Symbolism of regeneration after calums death |
