Horses of the Night Notes Essay

Vanessa was 6 years old, and Shallow Creek was a very cold environment oNo leaves grewbreath of seals and icy bears snuffled out steamily and turned to ice tomography Chris was fifteen when Vanessa met him permit him stay at the Brick House. import?high low-sweeping spruce trees shutting out the sun with their dusky out-fanned branches. (pg 283) vision At last the front cover door was hurled open and Grand arrive Connor strode into the house, followed by a tall lanky boy. ( page 283) IMAGERY Chriss physical behavior Grey eyes were fairly slanted, and his hair the colour of couch shutout at the end of summer when it has been bleached to a light yellow by the sun. (pg 284) state of warmly but shyly. irony/oxymoron,looking as granite as a statue in the cemetery. SIMILIE Hed been lucky to tie it, if you ask me any topic, Wilfs family hasnt got 2 cents to rub together (pg 285) grandp atomic number 18nts are extremely judge cordial of Chriss family, shows that Chris isnt the same social class as them curled into the bay window equal a black giant star seashell. fable just as though he had not perceive a word my grandfather was saying. shows that Chris had high tolerance He only if appeared to be absend. significant?The trees were still 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 knows similar snakes, roosters comb, severely leather tough. Two riding horses & He missed the horses any significance/reference to title of story Story takes place during The Great firstVanessa was nine when Chris left Manawaka, mentions Brick House again he was not at Shallow Creek. He has not gone abck northbound sort out at the first stop after manawaka, cashed his ticker and hitchhike a life with a truck to Winnepeg shows Chriss ambition aunt Edna unemployed becauseinsurance company cut down staff, moved covering fire to Manawaka Vanessas brother, Roderick was born the year Grandmother Connor died oThe unfamiliarity , 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 face with no flesh to spill of Chris was a travelling salesman who sold vacuums tried to sell Vanessas mother a vacuum, but failed (they couldnt afford one) Chris then sells magazines, and tell he would earn $100 in a month if every sixth person subscribed Chris then produces wool products (socks) with an old-fashioned fix machine oThinks he hit jackpot 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 like green wavering light while the horses flew in the importance of their pride. significant? He looked d ifferent, not only thinner face and neck were tanned red-brown wearing denims, farm pants, and a blue plaid shirt. Chris became a farmer The limousines 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 untold brighter the stars are when youre completely away from any houses? I guess most people dont give them much thought at all, except maybe to say very moderately 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 heard from Aunt Tess. Chris had been sent home from England, discharged from the regular army because of a menta l breakdown. He was now in the provincial mental hospital. p.299 osignificant because Chris loses his mindAnimation gone from his face.All his lifes choices had been openhanded narrower and narrower Only to bea turmoil which appalled him and which he dreaded Useless strokes of fantasy against a depression 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 pull 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, perpetualView as multi-pages