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8 Cards in this Set
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Sredni Vashtar |
- religion is bad -"sredni vashtar"- unknown - "secret and tearful"- mysterious -"the woman"- not respected - " Conradin hated her with desperate sincerity" |
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The phoenix |
- About karma - "jeered" and "abuse" - "swap him for a livelier one" - "amiable" and "civil" - "cost a great deal" |
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The prison |
- trapped in his own head
- "The Prison" and "ironically amused that Rosa has allowed him so long a time without bitching" - "tongue- tied" and "thrust out at him her red tongue" |
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Billenium |
- a dystopian world because no one has space
- loss of liberty - "permanently trapped in vast urban conurbations" and "pieces of wardrobe lay on his bed and across the floor" - third person, can happen to everyone - "gradually lost touch with his father and mother" AND " Ward's cubicle"
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The people before |
- negative side of colonization
- juxtaposition - metaphor: adzes as a metaphor for the land - jim is feminine, narrator masculine - "lecturer" - "farmer" - " Jim became his mother's boy. I remained my father's." |
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Mings biggest prey |
- foreshadowing the events that happened in the end " the quarreling continued"
- short sentence "but the man was not moving" - "people had tried to grab him from under Elaine's eyes" consequences of love - "and inhaled the aroma of his victory" Ming killed Teddie |
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Games at twilight |
- juxtaposition between Ravi and Raghu - "where could he burrow" - ravi is small - they had quite forgotten him" - abandoned - "dont be a fool... pushing him a side"- hurting, stupid - "dark and depressing mortuary"- connotations of death |
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To da-duh in memoriam |
-nature vs. buildings - characters are extended metaphors - "nothing can bear there"- urban has no life -" snow in the city"- urban has something nature doesnt - "an incredibly tall royal palm"- metaphor for nature - "tallest in the world"- ESB urban better than nature |
