Horses of the Night Notes Essay

Vanessa was 6 years old, and Shallow Creek was a very(prenominal) cold environment oNo leaves grewbreath of seals and polar bears snuffled come in steamily and turned to ice mental imagery Chris was fifteen when Vanessa met himlet him stay at the Brick House. significance?high low-sweeping spruce trees shutting out the sun with their dusky out-fanned branches. (pg 283) IMAGERY At last the front screen door was hurled open and grandad Connor strode into the house, followed by a tall lanky boy. (page 283) IMAGERY Chriss physical appearance Grey eye were slightly slanted, and his hair the colour of couchgrass at the end of summer when it has been bleached to a light yellowed by the sun. (pg 284) warmly but shyly. irony/oxymoron,looking as granite as a statue in the cemetery. SIMILIE Hed been lucky to get it, if you ask me anything, Wilfs family hasnt got two cents to rub together (pg 285) grandparents are passing judgemental of Chriss family, shows that Chris isnt the same social class as them curled into the bay window same a black giant seashell. SIMILE just as though he had not hear a word my grand have was saying. shows that Chris had high tolerance He simply appeared to be absent. significant?The trees were equable growing, and the leaves were firmly and greenly on them. The branches has been coaxed into formations of towers and high-up nests where you could look out and see for a hundred miles or more. IMAGERY The lake was full of fantasy creatures water monsters, creatures with necks resembling snakes, roosters comb, hard leather tough. cardinal riding horses & He missed the horses any significance/reference to title of story Story takes part during The Great DepressionVanessa was nine when Chris left Manawaka, mentions Brick House again he was not at Shallow Creek. He has not gone abck northbound train at the first stop after manawaka, cashed his ticker and thumbed a life with a truck to Winnepeg shows Chriss ambition aunt Edna unemployed becauseinsurance company cut down staff, moved back to Manawaka Vanessas brother, Roderick was natural the year Grandmother Connor died oThe strangeness , the unbelievability, of both these events took up all of me. page 291 When Vanessa was eleven, Chirs returned to ManawakaoChriss appearance did not change the same knife-boned view with no flesh to speak of Chris was a change of location salesman who sold vacuums tried to sell Vanessas mother a vacuum, but failed (they couldnt suffer one) Chris then sells magazines, and said he would earn $100 in a month if every sixth person subscribed Chris then produces wool products (socks) with an old-fashioned sewing machine oThinks he hit passel I think this thing could be quite a gold mine. Vanessas father diesChris is unemployed again because there were no jobs on the market The grass that shone homogeneous green vacillation light while the horses flew in the splendour of their pride. significant? He looked differen t, not only thinner face and neck were tanned red-brown wearing denims, farm pants, and a blue plaid shirt. Chris became a farmer The limos over here. It was a wagon and two horses IRONY 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 The lake was not lonely or unthreatened I looked at the grey reaches of it and held threatened. It was like a view of God which I had held since my fathers death. page 296 How much brighter the stars are when youre completely away from any houses? I guess most people dont give them much thought at all, turn out maybe to say very pretty or like that Theyre gigantic page 297 Chris was 21 and was sent to the army Chris left Shallow Creek some months after the war began. (page 299) my mother perceive from Aunt Tess. Chris had been sent home from England, discharged from the Army because of a mental breakdown. He was n ow in the provincial mental hospital. p.299 osignificant because Chris loses his mindAnimation gone from his face.All his lifes choices had been grown narrower and narrower but to bea turmoil which appalled him and which he dreaded Useless strokes of fantasy against a picture that was both the worlds and his own SIGNIFICANT Slowly, slowly, horses of the night- TITLENight must move like this for him land he journeyed through was inhabited by terrors, the old monster-kings of the lake, or whether he had discovered at last a way for himself to make the necessary dream perpetual SIGNIFICANT *** ________________________________________Vocab 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 stare as multi-pages