Whistle and I'll come to You, Susan Hill
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- Created on: 02-07-20 11:47
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- WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU
- LANGUAGE
- 'FELT LIKE A SHIP AT SEA' - simile, creates the effect of imbalance and instability. Also emphasises isolation and vulnerability that Arthur feels there.
- 'STEADY AS A LIGHTHOUSE' - simile continues the simile of ship at sea. Represents safety in a storm, suggesting the dangers surrounding Eel Marsh House.
- 'STEADY AS A LIGHTHOUSE' - simile continues the simile of ship at sea. Represents safety in a storm, suggesting the dangers surrounding Eel Marsh House.
- 'WIND RAGE AROUND LIKE A LION'- simile recalls the way the child imagined the wind.
- 'HOWLING DARKNESS'- Pathetic fallacy makes storm sound like an angry animal (links to lion simile)
- 'HOWLING DARKNESS'- Pathetic fallacy makes storm sound like an angry animal (links to lion simile)
- 'BANISHING ALL TRANQUILITY'- Dramatic, sensational language. Whole paragraph is a single complex, sentence.
- 'NOTHING'- minor sentence adds to tension. Short sentence reflects pause for concentration in listening
- 'A CRY...A CRY FOR HELP'- repetition here emphasises the shock that Arthur feels.
- 'NO. BUT WHAT WAS 'REAL'?' - use of minor sentence to indicate firmness of decision. Rhetorical question then contradicts and shows his confusion and complete perplexity.
- 'THE TORCH HAD BROKEN.'- Short sentence indicates desperation, harsh stark reality. Physical darkness he is surrounded by is symbolic of the fact that he has no idea what is happening. He is in the dark literally and metaphorically. High tension.
- 'DESPAIR AND FEAR, FRUSTRATION AND TENSION' - Listing of abstract nouns convey intensity of emotion.
- 'FELT LIKE A SHIP AT SEA' - simile, creates the effect of imbalance and instability. Also emphasises isolation and vulnerability that Arthur feels there.
- QUOTES
- 'MOANING DOWN ALL THE CHIMNEYS...WHISTLING' - Noises described are ghostly sounds- scary atmosphere. There is both physical threat from the storm and implied super-natural threat. Pathetic fallacy describes storm and wind. Gothic mood. Suggests world is in turmoil or distress. Pathetic fallacy is a form of personification.
- 'CATAPULTING'- Suggests a harsh push back into reality, sudden and violent (weapon).
- 'LIKE A BANSHEE'- ghost foretells impending death. Simile warns us of something bad ahead.
- 'BANGING AND RATTLING'- Active verbs here imply the force of the strom.
- 'LIGHTS WENT OUT'- Events such as these are common features of gothic ghost stories.
- 'PITCH BLACKNESS'- the loss of the torch increases the tension as he must investigate in the dark- emphasises his confusion and how is lost about everything. 'unsure'.
- 'DOUBT MY OWN REALITY'- Tension created as we are led to imagine possibilities- mystery. doubting his own mind we are left with more uncertain about what is going on.
- 'drummed by fists...until they throbbed'- More dramatic, strong emotion and frustration.
- 'I heard that child's terrible cry borne on the gusts towards me'- Coping better with frightening events, yet still messed, mixed feelings. Storm and cry indicates that nothing has been resolved, unsure of next.
- STRUCTURE
- Extract begins with setting of a violent storm, contrasted with memories of being a safe child.
- By the end, tension is relaxed by the presence of the dog, but the situation is unresolved and mystery continues.
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