Chemistry
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 23-05-18 11:58
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- Chemistry
- Context
- Family dynamics
- Family tragedy
- Suicide
- Learning to Swim
- Methods
- First person narrative
- Circular structure
- Symbolism
- Imagery
- Dialogue
- Characterisation
- Motif of water
- Quotes
- "The voyages were trouble-free."
- "The motor cut. The launch wallowed, sank."
- "Ralph suddenly barked"
- "For about a year we lived quietly, calmly, even contentedly within the scope of this sad symmetry."
- "Hydrochloric acid and nitric acid. Neither would work by itself, but the mixture will.
- "we lived for each other"
- "a big man, who ate heartily"
- "she had grown neglectful of Grandfather"
- "I remember keeping a sort of equation in my head"
- "the evergreen shrubs which filled our garden were defying the onset of autumn"
- "Get the pudding!"
- "she never did explain"
- "He was standing in his black overcoat and grey scarf."
- "there were a thousand things I wanted to tell them...about how suicide can be murder and things don't end"
- "he was a weary, ailing man"
- "Chemistry is the science of change."
- ""he studied it from curiosity and for solace"
- "The house where Ralph now lorded it, tucking into bigger and bigger meals, was a menacing place."
- "She looked trapped and helpless."
- "he looked like some torpid, captive animal that has lost even the will to eat"
- "The heavy rain and tossing branches of a rowan tree obscured my view."
- "slipped in, like a stray cat, at the back door"
- "this look of relief, as if she had recovered from an illness"
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- Themes and ideas
- Family
- Death
- Grief
- Loss
- Power
- Loneliness
- Loyalty and betrayal
- Past and present
- Things not as they seem
- Ghosts
- Context
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