Comparative - Small Things Like These Flashcards
(19 cards)
Eileen’s attitude to poor people
- Some of these bring the hardship on themselves
- Always there’s one that has to pull the short straw
Decription of the convent
Powerful-looking place
Furlong knows his rescuing of Sarah will have dire implications
The worst was yet to come, he knew.
Furlong believes the meaning of life is to help each other
He found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?
How Furlong feels walking Sarah home
- Never once in his whole and unremarkable life had he known a happiness akin to this
- In his foolish heart he not only hoped but legitimately believed that they would manage
Evidence that religion is diminishing
Cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary
Eileen believes you must turn a blind eye to some things for your own benefit
If you want to get on in life there’s things you have to ignore, so you can keep on
Furlong believes that the nuns only have power because others give them it
Surely they’ve only as much power as we give them
Eileen’s disapproval of Furlong’s generous nature
Have ye change for the collection box? Or has your daddy given it all away?
Eileen’s remark about Furlong’s parentage
Well, there’s girls out there that get in trouble, that much you do know
Furlong’s childhood bullying
The back of his coat covered in spit
Mrs Wilson’s generosity
Few thousand pounds to start up
The Mother Superior’s power
You’ll come in
The state of the girl when Furlong finds her in the coal shed
Just about fit to stand
The Mother Superior’s veiled threat to Furlong
It’s no easy to task to find a place for everyone
Furlong’s daily life
Getting up in the dark and going to the yard, making the deliveries, one after another, the whole day long
Mrs Kehoe claims that the church are all one structure
They’re all the one. You can’t side against one without damaging your chances with the other
Bill thinks the girl in the coal shed had been in there a while
That the girl within had been there for longer than the night
Bill wishes he never saw the girl in the coal shed
The ordinary part of him wished he’d never come near the place
