Flashcards
The Lovely Bones Quotes
Cards in this deck (9)
- 1Social expectations of women Context 1970s Characterisation‘Having fought tooth and nail with Grandma Lynn to go so far in school’
- 2Multiculturalism, social attitudes Context 1970s Setting - homogenous community Characterisation‘This combined with being an Indian from England had made him a Martian in Norristown’
- 3Symbolism - living vs dead Figurative language - link to nature'“Like snowflakes… none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before.”’
- 4Figurative language - link to nature 1st person narrative voice - maturity Juxtaposition - beauty vs horror‘Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.’
- 5Coping with grief - isolation Symbolism‘the green chair had become his true bed’
- 61st person narrative voice - adolescent Setting - heaven‘cakes and pillows’ and ‘wild roller coaster rides'
- 7Setting of cornfield - irony Coping with grief - isolation‘where she suddenly felt that the heart of her family had moved’
- 8Understanding how others cope with grief Family unit'live their lives in direct proportion to what effect it would have on a fragile father'
- 9Long road to accepting death and letting go 1st person POV'And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it.'
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- Year 11 English Y11 Flashcards on The Lovely Bones Quotes, created by Mel M on 16/07/2016.
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- Mel M · Jul 2016
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- Sep 29, 2016
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