'Horses of the Night Notes Essay\r'

'genus genus Vanessa was 6 years old, and modify Creek was a real cold environment o”No leaves grew… schnorkel of seals and polar bears snuffled come out steamily and turned to ice” †imaging •Chris was fifteen when Vanessa met him\r\n•”…let him stay at the Brick House.” ïÆ'Ÿ significance?\r\n•”…high low-sweeping spruce trees shutting out the sun with their dusky out-fanned branches.” (pg 283) †vision •”At at last the front screen door was hurled open and grandfather Connor strode into the place, followed by a tall lanky boy.” ( paginate 283) †tomography •Chris’s physical appearance †â€Å"Grey font were slightly slanted, and his hair the colour of couchgrass at the remnant of summer when it has been bleached to a light icteric by the sun.” (pg 284) •”…warmly but shyly.” †irony/oxymoron\r\n•”…,lo oking as granite as a statue in the cemetery.” †SIMILIE •”He’d been lucky to get it, if you ask me some(prenominal)thing, Wilf’s family hasn’t got two cents to rub together…” (pg 285) †grandparents are passing judgemental of Chris’s family, shows that Chris isn’t the equal â€Å"social” assort as them •”…curled into the bay window interchangeable a black giant seashell.” †SIMILE •”… merely as though he had non comprehend a word my grandfather was saying.” †shows that Chris had high leeway •”He simply appeared to be absent.” ïÆ'Ÿ significant?\r\n•”The trees were politic growing, and the leaves were firmly and super Cly on them. The branches has been coaxed into formations of towers and high-up nests where you could look out and come over for a hundred miles or more.” †IMAGERY •The lake w as full of fantasy creatures †water monsters, creatures with necks similar snakes, rooster’s comb, hard leather tough. •” two riding horses” & â€Å"He missed the horses…” ïÆ'  whatsoever significance/reference to title of story • bosh takes place during The Great Depression\r\n•Vanessa was lodge when Chris left Manawaka, mentions Brick House again •”he was not at Shallow Creek. He has not seizee for(p) abck… northbound train at the first closed give after manawaka, cashed his ticker and thumbed a life with a truck to Winnepeg” †shows Chris’s aspiration •Aunt Edna †unemployed because\r\ninsurance company adulterate down staff, relocationd back to Manawaka •Vanessa’s brother, Roderick was born the year Grand pose Connor died o”The inquisitiveness , the unbelievability, of both these events took up all of me.” page 291 •When Vanessa was el even, Chirs returned to Manawaka\r\noChris’s appearance did not change †â€Å"the same knife-boned face with no flesh to speak of” •Chris was a travelling salesman who sold vacuums †tried to sell Vanessa’s mother a vacuum, but failed (they couldn’t afford one) •Chris then sells magazines, and said he would defecate $100 in a month if any sixth person subscribed •Chris then produces fleece products (socks) with an old-fashioned sewing machine oThinks he mantrap jackpot †|I think this thing could be quite a gold mine.” •Vanessa’s father dies\r\n•Chris is unemployed again because there were no jobs on the market •”The grass that shone like green wavering light while the horses flew in the wideness of their pride.” ïÆ'  significant? •”He looked different, not only ribbony… face and neck were tanned red-brown… wearing denims, stir pants, and a blue plai d shirt.” †Chris became a farmer •”‘The limousine’s over here.’ It was a station wagon and two horses” †IRONY •\r\nâ€Å"Youngsters swam in and out of the house like shoals of nameless fishes.” †SIMILE •”… hardly see the food for the iridescent-winged blue-black bodies squirming all over it.” †IMAGERY • â€Å"The lake was not lonely or unthreatened… I looked at the grey reaches of it and held threatened. It was like a view of perfection which I had held since my father’s death.” page 296 •\r\nâ€Å"‘How a good deal brighter the stars are when you’re completely away from any houses?’ … ‘I guess most people don’t give them much thought at all, except maybe to say †very sanely †or like that … They’re gigantic…” †page 297 •Chris was 21 and was sent to the army †â€Å"Chris left Shallow Creek some months after the war began.” (page 299) •”… my mother heard from Aunt Tess. Chris had been sent home from England, discharge from the Army because of a mental breakdown. He was at one time in the provincial mental hospital.” p.299 osignificant because Chris loses his mind\r\n•” biography gone from his face.”\r\n•”All his life’s choices had been magnanimous narrower and narrower” •”Only to be\r\na turmoil which churn up him and which he dreaded…” •”Useless strokes of fantasy against a depression that was both the world’s and his own” ïÆ'  SIGNIFICANT •”Slowly, slowly, horses of the night-” †TITLE\r\n•”Night must move like this for him … land he journeyed through was populate by terrors, the old monster-kings of the lake, or whether he had ascertained at last a way for himself to t rifle the necessary dream uninterrupted” ïÆ'  SIGNIFICANT *** ________________________________________\r\nVocab †detested, sweltering, cameo, equanimity, simpleton, bludgeoning, wisecrack, malevolent, chivvying, illicitly, jubilant, spiel, overshoes, pronouncements, subterraneon oracle, utterances, engrossed, torrent, fortnight, pallid-eyed, monosyllabic, saurian, perpetual\r\nView as multi-pages\r\n'