Death Flashcards
(5 cards)
HF 1
“It’s a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He’s been shot in de back. Come in, Huck, but don’t look at his face - it’s too gashly”
HF 2
‘Jim says, kind of solemn: ‘He ain’t a-comin’ back no mo’, Huck”
TT 1
“Grief had formed, taken shape, a diamond shape, its four angles stapled onto her forehead, each shoulder, her stomach.”
TT 2
“the five prayers. They were the only challenge, the last touch with normality, without them she would have fallen, lost awareness of the shift of day into night”
Robert J. Lowenhertz on Mark Twain
“Most shocking to a sensitive young boy was the terrible memory of the death of his father… the boy had secretly watched the family doctor perform a post-mortem on his father’s body”