Korea
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- Created on: 23-05-18 15:20
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- Korea
- Methods
- First person narrative
- Use of setting
- Use of silence
- Structure
- Themes and ideas
- Death
- Power
- Honour
- Society
- Things not as they seem
- Parents and children
- Past and present
- Context
- Irish War of Independence
- Korean War
- Emigration from Ireland to America
- Quotes
- "You saw an execution then too, didn't you?"
- "I feel like I'd be giving you a chance I never got. I fought for this country. And now they want to take away even the licence to fish. Will you think about it anyhow?"
- "You won't be able to say I didn't give you the chance when you come to nothing in this fool of a country. It'll be your own funeral."
- "I'd never felt so close to him before"
- "Each move he made I watched as closely as if I too had to prepare myself to murder."
- "I closed the door and sat in the darkness, in the smell of **** and **** and the warm fleshy smell of too many worms crawling in too little clay."
- "It was my father's voice. He was excited."
- "The guilt of leaving came: I was discarding his life to assume my own."
- "there was something calculating in his face"
- "I knew my youth had emded."
- "There's no room for ambition in this poky place."
- "as the volley rang, the boy tore at the tuhis tunic over the heart, as if to pluck out the bullets"
- "It was new to me to hear him talk about his own life at all."
- "I couldn't get it out of my mind all day. It destroyed the day."
- "he'd draw his fingers across his eyes as if to draw a spider web away, but it was my last summer with him on the river, and it seemed to make him want to talk, to give of himself before it ended"
- Methods
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