Cone Gatherers Flashcards
(29 cards)
Tree of hatred and revulsion (Hatred, deception, nature)
“What Duror heard was a roaring within him, as if that tree of hatred and revulsion was being tossed by a gale.”
Duror’s inner decay and outer deception (deception, nature, evil)
“He was like a tree still straight, still showing green leaves; but underground death was creeping along the roots.”
Duror’s evil is exposed to Roderick (Evil, deception, nature)
“The lurker under the cypress, entangled in the thin green bony arms that curled out like an octopus’s.”
“He felt cold and frightened, and sick at heart. Here at the very hut was the most evil presence of all, and it was visible.”
Graham senses Duror’s evil (Evil, nature)
“…but when, a minute later, Duror was stalking away towards the point, it was as if the rotting tree itself had moved.”
Neil expresses his feelings of constraint and entrapment (nature, confinement)
“He hated these cones, which kept them prisoners in this wood just as the snare held the rabbit.”
Neil is ashamed and scared by LRC when caught in the beach house (Social Class, shame)
“He could not lift his head… A lifetime of frightened submissiveness held it down.”
Neil angrily responds to LRC/Graham’s call for help with Roderick (Discrimination, social class)
“She cannot one day treat us as lower than dogs, and next day order us to do her bidding.”
Calum is scared when he first encounters Duror and attempts to hide. (fear, evil)
“Calum, demoralised as always by hatred, had cowered against the hut, hiding his face.”
Calum is at one with nature and bears sympathy towards the injured mammal. (compassion, nature)
“He shared the suffering of the rabbit.”
Duror approaches the CGs in the tree and Calum is scared. (fear, evil, nature)
“Calum was not reassured; he still whimpered and cowered, like a dog in the presence of someone who has been cruel to it.”
Calum is picked upon by others and can be hunted. (nature, discrimination)
“Calum was no longer one of the beaters; he too was a deer hunted by remorseless men.”
Calum shows sympathy and protectiveness towards the deer. (nature, compassion)
“Screaming in sympathy, heedless of the danger of being shot, Calum flung himself upon the deer…”
LRC discusses the inferiority of the lower classes. (social class, discrimination)
“Your father’s right. After this war, the lower orders are going to be frightfully presumptuous.”
Tulloch discusses LRCs inner conflict. (inner conflict, religion, social class)
“She’s a good woman really; but she’s got a code to live by.”
Lady RC shows prejudice towards the lower classes. (discrimination, social class)
“We must not regard everyone as our equal… They are our inferiors.”
Roderick’s understanding of war and conflict. (war, g vs e)
“Roderick knew that the struggle between good and evil never rested: in the world, and in every human being, it went on.”
Duror’s hatred of Calum, contrast of sympathy and apathy. (g vs e, compassion, hatred, discrimination, nature)
“Duror the gamekeeper, in an icy sweat of hatred with his gun aimed all the time at the feebleminded hunchback grovelling over the rabbit.”
Duror discusses the joy he would feel if Calum were to die. (hatred)
“To hear the obscene squeal of the killed dwarf would have been for him… a release from the noose of disgust and despair.”
LRC expresses her worries to Roderick regarding his affection towards the lower classes (social class, discrimination)
“It’s taken centuries of breeding to produce our kind, for God’s sake don’t get us mixed.”
Neil tells Tulloch of the beach house incident. (discrimination)
“We were driven out like slaves. Her dog was to be saved from the storm but not my brother.”
LRC looks forward to the CG’s departure. (Discrimination, social class)
“The wood will feel healthier and look lovelier with them gone.”
Tulloch describes Duror’s appearance after slaying the deer. (insanity)
“He had the appearance of a drunk man, unshaven, slack-mouthed, mumbling, rather glaikit.”
Neil is bitter regarding his accommodation (discrimination)
“…their hut, which to him remained a symbol of humiliation.”
Duror knows not the cause of his evil (evil, nature)
“…the overspreading tree of revulsion in him, but he could not tell the force which made it grow.”
