quotes Flashcards
(27 cards)
(1) E –
“Earth animal not a bird”
(2) c- n –
“chlosraphobic “
“numbness of their grief”
(3) R –
“rush of vertigo”
(4) Y –
“Your first snake. Now you can call yourself a local”
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(5) D –
“dream-like threshold”
(6) B –
“breathing mold and damp”
(7) W –
“world is spinning away from her”
8) L –
“Luke was the couch potato”
(9) f –
“ she is frozen”
(10) T –
“this is not Eden”
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(11) S –
“Sir Fredrick treves”
(12) C –
“can this be the Promised Land?”
(13) M –
“mournful bird cry”
(14) S –
“seemed suddenly shabby”
Body Paragraph 1 (Catalyst):
A trigger for change or growth.
Lohrey illustrates how the fire-prone landscape catalyzes the protagonist’s identity and emotions, showing how external crises shape human experience.
Body Paragraph 2 (Catastrophe):
A disruptive crisis or turning point.
The text explores how trauma and grief become catastrophic forces, distorting the protagonist’s reality and creating tension between memory and present life.
Body Paragraph 3 (Catharsis):
Catharsis is the release of intense emotions, providing relief and renewal.
Lohrey depicts the protagonist’s path to healing through communal bonds, revealing catharsis as resilience and solace emerge from shared hardship.
q
“queer beauty”
p
“plant their new sapling”
s
seemed suddenly shabby
b
“boy choose to encomponey them”
Anomalies
Messages appear on hard-to-reach places (16th floor window)
Dry writing on glass defies physics
Persist across locations, hinting at something beyond physical explanation
Definition: Unusual events or things that don’t follow expected patterns or laws.
Inconsistencies
their relationship, the boys presence,
Paradoxes
Vertigo: paradox of nature as peace and source of pain
Couple moves for refuge; nature mirrors grief
Healing not instant, external changes don’t erase trauma
Nature comforts, threatens; beauty and danger coexist
Unpredictability of healing, resilience amidst suffering
