birdsong quotes

Question 1

Elizabeth essay 3 points

Answer 1

1 ignorant
2 Faulks voice
3 modern day feminist

Question 2

Elizabeth as ignorance 5 quotes

Answer 2

1 “Elizabeth bensons signed in impatience”
2 “she had returned from a two day business trip”
3 “for her generation there was no intensity”
4 “ugly arch” “nobody told me” “dumped in a meadow”
5 “morbid to dwell on it” “ancient history” “depressing”

Question 3

Elizabeth as vessel for change Faulks voice X5 quotes

Answer 3

1 "ancient history"
2 "mildly curious"
3 "danger of loosing touch with the past"
4 "it mattered passionately"
5 "a promise made by her grandfather"

Question 4

Elizabeth as feminist X3

Answer 4

1 “she liked living alone”
2 “she began to feel helpless and dependent”
3 “you say you run it, you’re the boss? are you”
4 “does it matter?” “I don’t think it does”
5 “he’s never going to leave his wife

Question 5

jean as the maternal healer

Answer 5

1 "im drawn to the idea of independence"
2 "I am her only friend"
3 "she felt him beginning to sob"
4 "I understand you must be strong"
5 "let me hold you" "because I love you"

Question 6

Isabelle X5 quotes

Answer 6

1 “my wife is a mysterious creature”
2 “disappointed her father by not being the son he wanted”
3 “he felt a simple elation of victory”
4 “she’s coming with me”
5 “she became content with it more than she accepted it” “Azaire became desperate”

Question 7

Stephen before war X5 quotes

Answer 7

1 “he pulled her towards him”
2 “he was a boy, he was the dearest boy”
3 “the terrible piling up of the dead”
4 “keener psychical life than she was receiving”
5 “wrapped both of his arms around her so that she could not escape”

Question 8

Stephen during war quote X5

Answer 8

1 you a cold bastard Wraysford
2 felt himself grow cold
3 this is a test of how far men can be degraded
4 animal matter less dear, less valuable than the flesh of the men he had seen die”
5 then I will have them for you

Question 9

Stephen after war

Answer 9

1 he never really recovered
2 let me hold you
3 kind gentle
4 because I love you

Question 10

Jack Firebrace essay points three

Answer 10

religion, jack and shaw, role of minors

Question 11

religion Jack Firebrace points

Answer 11

1 he was a gift from god 
2 do my duty as a christian 
3 supported by a wooden cross
4 my boy, my darling boy
5 come home to me
6 innocence was a kind of hope

Question 12

Jack Firebrace and shaw

Answer 12

“admiring huge back, with the muscles slabbed and spread across his shoulder blades”

Question 13

pre war society quotes mysogony

Answer 13

1 she is a woman of nervous temperament. it signifies nothing
2 a man bored by his houseful of a woman
3 he subsequently experiences a kind of emotional powerlessness towards Isabelle

Question 14

pre war setting, azaires house and the river somme

Answer 14

lilac willows cultivated to give shade and quietness to their owners 
flank wagons squared off
patches of grass and wildflowers 
river somme broke into small calnals
unregarded passageways

Question 15

hypocrisy in pre war society

Answer 15

strong formal front  
iron railings
sold display her to his friends 
unregarded passageways 
medieval
a tour of azaires business operations 
we need to retrench