Quotes Fever Dream Flashcards
(15 cards)
POV
1st Person
Author and publishing date, text type
Samantha Schweblin, 2014, Novella
Outline the narrative style used and its effect
It uses a nonlinear, fragmented narrative style. Events are not presented in chronological order, with the story shifting between past and present memories. Furthermore, there is a disembodied dialogue between Amanda and David to build the narrative, creating a “fever dream”, hallucinatory effect
Genre
Suspenseful psychological horror fiction + magical realism
Mood
Tense and a growing sense of unease/dread
3 examples eerie occurrences in the country side:
- Dog with a missing leg
- Girl with an “enormous forehead”
- “strange children” with “pink” and “scaly” skin
3 themes
Menace and Death
Worms
Thread/Rope
Quote when Amanda’s husband is driving back to the capital
“He doesn’t see the soy fields, the streams that crisscross the dry plots of land, (…) the factories (…) too many cars (…) smoking and effervescent”
What Carla said about eyes and things being hidden in plain sight when recounting story of the horse and David
“It’s just that sometimes the eyes you have aren’t enough, Amanda. I don’t know how I didn’t see it”
What Amanda calls David after his transmigration
a “monster”
David can be seen as a personification of what, and why?
Death because he guides Amanda slowly towards her own death.
David is perceived to be a _________ and _________ force throughout the novel
Potent, omnicient
Quote about worms and the exact moment by David
“we have to find the exact moment when the worms come into being.”
2 quotes that show hiding of the issue:
“They’re taking us to the waiting room. That’s where they leave us before the day starts.”
“The nurse wants to know where we are from” (Carla tells nurse they’re from out of town and her mood completely changes and gives them a pack of pills to fight against sunstroke) “You’ve just had a little too much sun.”
Good quote for how the author creates a fever-dreamish tone and shows Amanda to be in a hysterical state.
“We’ve already talked about the poison, the contamination. You’ve already told me four times how you got here.”
