ENGLISH - Shark Net Quotes Flashcards
(11 cards)
Fremantle - dark side
Setting (gothic details)
“It looped around the neck of the port like a noose”
“A young chaser of ambulances and fire engines…walked the windy night-time wharves and streets with caution”
“It’s most imposing building was the old Fremantle Insane asylum”
“The prison had a grim history…Executions sometimes still took place there.”
-accident with Italian family (raises questions about justice)
Fremantle - dark side
Miscarriage of justice in examining Eric
“Eric took the death sentence like someone who had won a handy lottery prize”
-Simile: easily allows reader to see his insanity
“This reaction to a death sentence…looked bloody insane to me”
Fremantle - good side
“We weren’t self-conscious exiles any longer”
“Suddenly we enjoyed having lots of people around”
“We began holding regular keg parties at the House of Meat”
Perth - dark side
-Westana Road to Waratah Avenue
“The street suddenly seemed as false as a movie set”
-hints of hardship in freedom
“Grazed ankles and blackened toenails, the blood-blistered heels”
Perth - good side
“Glen Orbits Earth, Says Thanks to Perth”
“City of Light”
-any details about the beach
“I envied the superior foods they claimed to live on…fish and chips, chocolate-coated icecreams, spearmint milkshakes”
Appearances can be deceiving - contrast between functional image of family and real thing
-Father (Royce)
-his appearance to care for family with his job in Dunlop yet his emotional detachment from them
“A secretary could fetch a pair of Bumpers from the storeroom in 5mins”
“It was Miss Kirman we discovered who always remembered and bought my mother’s birthday, wedding anniversary and Christmas presents”
“You know Dunlop will always come first”
“My mother gave a faint sociable smile. It was at this time that she taught Junior, our budgerigar, to say, “Today you’ll use a Dunlop product.”
Him picking up women for a lift, his adultery
Appearances can be deceiving - contrast between functional image of family and real thing
-Mother (Dorothy)
-Billy Graham show how she is seeking contentment in her life, spiritual path, comfort
“She was still hanging on to Billy Graham’s words”
-her fearful and overprotective nature since moving to Perth
“My mother had more rules than before”
“Cooking but not eating. Who’d been crying.”
“Don’t swim in the river. Don’t eat shop handled pies, hamburgers…or sandwiches.”
Pleasure and danger
Beach - pleasure
“Sand children”
“What they ate was fish and chips, chocolate coated icecreams, spearmint milkshakes”
“The coast seemed generally strange and risky…where else but the white sand could there be such prospects for pleasure and danger”
Pleasure and danger
Beach - danger
“If a piece of kelp bobbed nearby he’d snatch it up and elaborately dispose of it…as if he mistrusted its sinister kelpish intentions.”
“The real beach terror lay in the undertow, the shark: the unruly sea itself.”
“The coast seemed generally strange and risky…where else but the white sand could there be such prospects for pleasure and danger.”
“Drowned kids perhaps” - gothic notes
Shark net metaphor
Pleasure and danger
Saturday Night Boy 1
-his swimming style was described to be like a lurking shark
“The stroke to use was the side-stroke - steady and smooth, no unnecessary over arm flapping”
-swan river
-shark net metaphor
Parallel journey from innocence to experience with Perth
” but the common belief was that locking your doors was ridiculous and showed an untrustworthy, inhospitable nature.”
“Their facades looked stony and closed. People’s eyes flicked away as they hurried indoors or into their cars.”
“But every neighbouring male was a suspect”
-paired with Robert’s realisation of the dark side of Perth
Justice, disturbing nature of police, Beamish and Button
“I wanted to stretch my wings. I wanted adventures…far too much had happened here. It was holding me back.”
