Para 2 Flashcards
PARA 2: Topic sentence
Despite their initial feelings of freedom and liberation, the natural environment of Garra Nalla evolves into its own hostile force, and Anna finds herself confronting the same feelings of entrapment that plagued her life in the city.
PARA 2: TVAVA 1
Lohrey illuminates this hostile force initially through the couple being caught in the midst of a ‘seven year drought’, a predicament which had started to ‘sound biblical’ as the ‘dryness’ metaphorically became a ‘part of you’. Ultimately, this ‘curse’ casts a distinctly hostile mood over their new world, and thus exposes the facade of Garra Nalla ANS Q
PARA 2: TVAVA 2
Furthermore, their emotional deviations to the boy are highlighted through symbols to reflect their separation – their canoe, once a conduit to intimacy and togetherness, eventually ‘lies idle under the veranda’; discarded and deserted minoring their emotional separation from each other whilst causing Anna’s perceived state of ‘Vertigo’ and the deterioration of a ‘united front’ ANS Q
PARA 2: TVAVA 3
This divergence is created through ‘The boy’ who serves as a memory anchor to Anna, and as he slowly disappears she is forced to confront the transience and ephemerality of the human experience, which led to her feeling “like a fly caught in an invisible web”. This emotional entrapment reveals how her life is framed by her desperation to hold on to the lost child in the form of an intangible and abstract figment of her imagination. Thus propels her emotional separation from Luke … SHORT SENTENCE.
