Never Let Me Go Graveyard Scene Flashcards
Chapter 16 - Graveyard Scene
squashed hedgegog
‘And once we started, I was laughing just as much as she was—about how one of them looked like it was wearing underpants, how another had to have been inspired by a squashed hedgehog.’
- ‘laughing’ has connotations of happiness and fun contrasting the fact Ruth and Kathy are mocking Tommy
- ‘squashed’ - presents an idea of being deformed further showing the riduclous nature of Tommy’s drawings
Ruth discoveres the tape and they start laiughing about Lenny then Tommy
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what do you think
‘Then they were both looking at me, like I was now in charge of everything and it was up to me what happened next.
“It’s not a bad theory,” I said. “It might be right, I don’t know. What do you think, Ruth?”’
- by asking Ruth she displays Ruth’s dominance and importance as Kathy will believe if Ruth does (CONTRAST boat scene )
- furthered by ‘might’
Start of graveyard scene when Ruth brings up the animals and Kathy is co
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hoot
‘“It’s not just me, sweety. Kathy here finds your animals a complete hoot.””
- ‘hoot’ - informal and causal which contrasts the fact Tommy thinks the drawings are very important
- ‘sweety’ - puts Tommy down as a child and is condescending
- ‘hoot’ and ‘animals’
Tommy tries defending his theory while Ruth mocks it
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little creatures
*‘As long as people think you’re doing those little creatures as a kind of joke, fine. But don’t give out you’re serious about it. Please.”
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- ‘little’ - puts down Tommy and his drawings in a belittling way showing them as insignificant
- ‘joke’ furthers this effecr, and is a parallel to clones as they are copies of animals with small details
- ‘please’ - connotations of politeness contrastes the whole statement
After Ruth said kathy finds them funny, when Ruth lectures him
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receding anger
‘And I can recall now, as fresh as anything, Tommy’s own face, the anger receding for the moment, being replaced by an expression almost of wonder, like I was a rare butterfly he’d come across on a fence-post.’
- ‘anger’ to ‘wonder’ shows the immense shock of Tommy as he does not know what to feel
- ‘rare butterfly’ - has connotations of something you dont see often, fleeting which is what this side of Kathy if to him
Kathy lets Tommy think the worst of her
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triumph
‘So I turned and marched back the way I’d come, past the gravestones …I felt as though I’d triumphed; that now they’d been left in each other’s company, they were suffering a fate they thoroughly deserved’
- ‘thoroughly deserved’ - thorughly as an intesfiier shows how much Kathy means it
- ‘deserved’ and ‘suffering’ have contrasting meanings shows the odness over what has just occured
- ‘gravestones’ - use of locations and setting to show the death of a friendship
- ‘triumphed’ has connotations of winning contrasting the fact she just lost a friendship
end of the scene
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resignation
‘A voice went: “All right, let him think the absolute worst. Let him think it, let him think it.” And I suppose I looked at him with resignation, with a face that said: “Yes, it’s true, what else did you expect’
- ‘let’ as a contional verb shows Kathys’s defeat (contrast to trimuphed)
- ‘resignation’ furthers thus effect shows the weakened nature of Kathy
before the buttefrly after the cinfrontation
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couldve wouldve shouldve
’ I could have just denied it, though Tommy probably wouldn’t have believed me. And to try to explain the thing truthfully would have been too complicated. But I could have done something. I could have challenged Ruth, told her she was twisting things,’
- repetition of ‘could and would’ shows the regretful nature of Kathy when reflecting
- ‘challenged’ - has connotations of aggression and uprising showing how Kathy would have needed to topply Ruth from her throne showing how hard it would be
- ‘twisting’ - connotations of contortion showing the malicious nature of Ruth
after Ruth says her statement before resignation
