Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Darkness Out There Themes
- Light and Darkness
- "The darkness was.. a part
of you and you would
never be without it, ever."
- "The dark slab of trees."
- "It was all right out here in the sunshine."
- Stereotyping
- Past and Future
- Sandra
- Hopes and dreams for the future
- "One day."
- Two word paragraph stands out and highlights
the importance of her dreams about her future
- "She would go to places
like on travel brochures...
she would fall in love."
- Idealised ideas about her future
- Naive and innocent about the 'darkness' in
human nature
- Thinks about life like
it's a fairytale- links
to stereotypical
views towards the
characters and
Packer's end.
- Mrs Rutter
- Lives in the past/trapped in time
- "Good riddance to bad rubbish."
- Still feels no remorse- still bitter
about husband's death
- Still has the same views that people did
during the war, stuck in the past
- "I came here as a young married
woman... I never had any
children."
- She lives in the past- her life
stopped when her husband died
- Has regrets about her life-
never got a chance to have
children
- The deception of appearances
- Final line summarises theme
- "a world... in which flowers sparkle
and birds sing but everything is not as
it appears, oh no."
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