Other Flashcards
(9 cards)
Francis knows Mrs Belander from before the war
In a first reading the Plymouth seems unimportant
“She had always been generous when I did her errands and her tips paid for my ten-cent movie tickets at the Plymouth on Saturday afternoons.”
Chapter 8
Arthur Rivier shows that people are trying to ignore the effects of the war
They are not addressing their problems - instead they hide their emotions
“I want to talk about it, my war… And your war, too, Francis. Everybody’s war. The war nobody wants to talk about.”
Chapter 8
Arthur remembers the terror he felt
He describes a war that Francis can relate to - Francis was also terrified
“The scared war… God, but I was scared Francis.”
Chapter 8
This shows Cormier’s attitude to war.
Arthur describes the reality of war in graphic details.
“No heroes in that scrap-book, Francis. Only us, the boys of Frenchtown. Scared and homesick and cramps in the stomach and vomit. Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren’t heroes. We were only there…”
Chapter 9
The newsreel footage becomes an entertainment.
Civilians saw the war as dramatic and exciting.
“We cheered our fighting forces and booed and hissed when Hitler came on the screen, his arm always raised in that hated salute.”
Chapter 5
The Wreck Centre was part of the ‘New Deal’ programme during the Depression.
Unemployed people were paid by the Government to work on projects like this.
“The men worked frantically… but the work was haphazard.”
Chapter 5
The first description of the Wreck Centre suggests the tragedy that will take place there.
The words are highlighted by being in single-sentence paragraphs.
“It’s a bad luck place, people had said.
A place of doom, others added.”
Chapter 5
Loops-back to the beginning of the chapter.
Reinforces the idea that something terrible is going to happen.
“Joey LeBlanc angered me when he said he could feel that old doom hanging over the place.”
Chapter 16
Again, Cormier challenges the idea of what makes someone a hero.
“Who was I going to tell…? He was a big war hero.”
