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Flashcards by Michael-owen sons, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Michael-owen sons
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| “Her hands dug into my flesh and she dragged me off the mattress across the floor. I slapped her away. I was happy sleeping dead. “Leave her. You can’t save all of them,” Handler Xavier said. I opened my eyes and saw him smacking Kitty’s arm.” | As a little girl, Kitty was the only one not drugged when a fire broke out in O Section. She managed to save Ettie, but was badly burnt herself and saw the bodies of many orphan children carried away. This would explain why she is frightened of fires, and would create sympathy for her. Such a traumatic experience leaves a scar. |
| In this metaphor, the colours of the flames are described as tears. If someone is burnt, they shed tears of agony. In the same way, when the trees are burnt, they produce the colours (orange, red, pink) as a sign of their burning. The image is striking and unusual, but strange in that tears are liquid and the colours are flame. Nevertheless both tears and colours indicate the pain of burning and the suffering of the victim, in this case, the trees. | |
| Your only favourite place, your haven and place of peace was destroyed in an already destroyed society - How must you feel? | “I hold her gaze and think of my trees. “Murderer,” I whisper. She blinks me away.” “May the Locusts break every bone in their bodies, and drain their blood. One bone for every branch. One drop of blood for every leaf.” |
| Rioting, looting and burning are all unacceptable; such civic chaos is barbaric. However, the reader understands that, out of hopelessness, poverty, hunger and despair, comes such base human responses. These people suffer from constant deprivation: their illegal behaviour is clearly destructive but is understandable when the people contrast their living conditions with those of a pampered and privileged elite. Furthermore, it appears that those in control allow the riots to continue for a short time to allow some of the resentment to be re-directed at a target that they allow. | |
| The connotations of 'cockroach' are unpleasant. The insect is usually regarded as disgusting and horrifying. The name suggests a dehumanised creature, repellent to look at and without civilised values. | |
| “I climb the fire escape to the top of the building and leap across the rooftops. It is as busy as a sewer full of rats. I run past the shanties, the cooking fires, the lines of washing.” ... “leap across to the next roof.” ... “I take the fire escape at the side of the building and peer in at the windows until I find something that interests me. Three floors down, I stop.” | Ettie climbs the fire escape to the top of the building and leaps across the rooftops. She leaps from one building to the other (they are close together), and climbs three floors down, using the fire escape at the side of the building. She can then peer through the window. |
| 2. Why did the Locust warden allow the prisoners to be killed? | |
| Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from organisms whose genetic material (DNA) has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally, e.g. through the introduction of a gene from a different organism. | “It is the place where our food comes from. Every morning, wagons are sent from The Laboratory to the market.” ... “Nowadays, the only way to get food is to slice and dice and multiply it in The Laboratory – the food is made from the few plants as well as the animal flesh that was saved after the conflagration.” |
| “ It will be Kitty who gets to do it. Not you. She will succeed where you have failed. She will be free and you will be a drudge. Dead-brain. Coward. I climb down the fire escape to the market below. This is one game Kitty is not going to play without me. I have to find out what they are planning. I must be part of it.” | The tone is determined. Ettie is desperate to erase the mark so that she cannot be tracked. She now knows that this can be done in The Laboratory, and she wants to be there when it happens. Her tone is implacably (unable to be moved) resolute (determined to do something). |
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