Compass and torch symbolism

Question 1

Compass (4)

Answer 1

‘Then he groans: “I didn’t bring a compass.”’

‘The first time in four months he has his eight-year-old son’

‘No hope of him relating to his son on any personal, day-to-day level! No hope of him trying to RELATE to him!’

‘In the plummeting darkness, the man’s own anxiety began to mount. He could feel it gathering in the blackening chill: the aching certainty that already, only one year on from the separation, he has lost his son, his child. And the thought grew so strong that he could only half-listen to the child’s earnest desperate voice.’

Question 2

Torch (2)

Answer 2

‘What colour is your torch, Dad?’
‘Er…’ The man is peering into the boot. ‘Er… it’s green.’

‘“It’s a red one,” he tells his dad now.’

Question 3

Horse (1)

Answer 3

The horse sighs. She wheels around. Facing the open moor, she lifts her tail, spreads her hind legs and provides a close-up display which could easily fascinate an eight-year-old boy: opens and flexes her bright-red arse and lets out a steaming stream.’

Question 4

Setting (5)

Answer 4

Dark clouds
Black lake
Barrier when going to camp site
‘Wilderness’ - lost
‘bleached end-of-summer grass’