The Darkness Out There Themes

Light and Darkness
1. "The darkness was.. a part of you and you would never be without it, ever."
2. "The dark slab of trees."
3. "It was all right out here in the sunshine."
Stereotyping
Past and Future
1. Sandra
  1. Hopes and dreams for the future
    1. "One day."
      1. Two word paragraph stands out and highlights the importance of her dreams about her future
    2. "She would go to places like on travel brochures... she would fall in love."
      1. 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.
2. Mrs Rutter
  1. Lives in the past/trapped in time
    1. "Good riddance to bad rubbish."
      1. Still feels no remorse- still bitter about husband's death
      2. Still has the same views that people did during the war, stuck in the past
    2. "I came here as a young married woman... I never had any children."
      1. She lives in the past- her life stopped when her husband died
      2. Has regrets about her life- never got a chance to have children
The deception of appearances
1. Final line summarises theme
  1. "a world... in which flowers sparkle and birds sing but everything is not as it appears, oh no."
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Resource summary

	Created by Samantha Kemp about 11 years ago