Shinji

Question 1

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He was still wearing the same clothes he fished in each day (p.6)

Question 2

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Answer 2

Shinji was winning. But the sea was not surrendering: one after the other, mockingly, it kept sending the pots up - all empty. (p.16)

Question 3

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The realization of this unknown world came pressing in upon him like distant thunder. (p.19)

Question 4

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Until now the boy had been leading a peaceful, contented existence…tormented with unrest…falling prey to the feeling that there was nothing about him that could possibly appeal to Hatsue. (p.33)

Question 5

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He was so healthy that…he could not believe that any of these qualities could possibly touch Hatsue’s heart. (p.33)

Question 6

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Their dry, chapped lips touched. There was a slight taste of salt. “It’s like seaweed,” Shinji thought. (p.42)

Question 7

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He was planning to hide here as a joke … Instead, he deliberately let her know where he was (p.51)

Question 8

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“No matter how much times change, very bad things - very bad ways - will always disappear before they get to our island” (p.53)

Question 9

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At his feet there lay a beautiful small pink shell, apparently just washed up by the same wave. (p.67)

Question 10

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His feelings now were in complete concord with nature’s present fury. (p.69)

Question 11

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“Now she flung it away behind her … like some piece of heroic sculpture … he untied his loincloth. (p.75)

Question 12

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Answer 12

This place of toil had become for him a place of matchless rest. (p.112)

Question 13

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Answer 13

Her face was lost in the shadows (p.120)

Question 14

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Once he himself had boarded the unknown and set sail, uneasiness and despair, confusion and anguish had joined forces and borne down upon him. (p.131)

Question 15

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Answer 15

Elopement? … Double suicide then? (p.131)

Question 16

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Shinji did not have a watch … Placed as he was, close to the workings of nature, it was not surprising he should understand nature’s precise system. (p.132)

Question 17

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The boy continued to stand in the same motionless posture, like a sentinel at the top of the stone steps. (p.134)

Question 18

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His movements were as useless as though he were trying to run through grease. (p.163)

Question 19

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The white ship was no longer a shadow of the unknown. (p.167)

Question 20

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It was this little island, enfolded in darkness, that had protected their happiness and brought their love to this fulfilment … (p.182)

Question 21

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He knew it had been his own strength that had tided him through that perilous night. (p.183)