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30 Cards in this Set
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"We blame him...and i blame you. And God." |
Oriel, about religion and guilt. |
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"Always the miracles you don't need." |
Specifically Fish surviving but being disconnected from his spiritual self. |
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"Not all of Fish Lamb had come back." |
In reference to Fish losing connection between his physical and spiritual self after his drowning. |
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"Even when it's empty it feels overcrowded." |
About the house, links to the unrested spirits. |
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"God was laughing when he made women." |
Undermining male power, said by Dolly to Rose. |
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"You're turning to steel right there." |
Reference to Rose |
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"Luck don't change love. It moves." |
Said by Sam shows his firm belief in luck and chance. Plays a key role in his life and the journey of his family, implies that it does not stay in one spot like the 'shifty shadow' of God. |
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"Four fingers fell to the deck and danced like half a pound of live prawns." |
About Sam, juxtaposes the usually joyful act of dancing with the horrific loss of his fingers. |
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"He was bereaved... minus a working hand. Homeless. Broke." |
About Sam Pickles, shows loss of powers (allusion to biblical samson). |
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"Damn her...to hell and sh*t and piss and sick." |
Displays the obvious underlying hate Rose has for Dolly. This is never fully resolved but Rose gains understanding for Dolly's actions during their talk towards the end of the novel. |
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"It's like Fish is stuck somewhere...Like he's half in and half out." |
Fish's disconnection with himself and also how he can hear the river. |
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"He did not think of home but home thought of him." |
About Quick when he leaves and lives in Margaret River, continues to cut out pictures of the less fortunate. |
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"Quick Lamb barrelling right before him." |
Quick hallucinates and sees himself in the wheat field, nearly shoots himself, loss of sense of self and belonging. |
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"Places are strong, important...too many places busted...you better be the strongest man." |
Aboriginal man telling Sam not to sell the house, trying to dispel the curse. |
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"Go home to your home mate." |
Aboriginal man telling Quick to return home. |
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"Life was all there was. And death." |
Winton showing the simplicity of life where only two things are certain. Believing we are left to fill our own destiny. |
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"Take away the family and that's it. There's no point." |
Lester- shows the value winton places on family and belonging. |
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"He knows it should have been him, not Fish" |
Quick in reference to the guilt he feels for Fish's drowning. |
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"The house sad, Lestah." |
Fish- personification of the house |
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"Oriel wasn't one to argue with a living, breathing house." |
Personification of the house |
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"I love you dad. You can't do it to me...I'd piss on your grave." |
Rose convinces Sam to not kill himself, realises his family's dependence on him and therefore his purpose in life. |
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"Quiet sobbing in the walls." |
Personification of the house, represents unrested spirits. |
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"geyser of water from Fish." |
Humour reminds us of the absurdities of life, a way of avoiding things that are hard in life. |
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"I burst into the moon, the sun and the stars of who i really am. Being Fish Lamb. Perfectly. Always. Everyplace. Me." |
Final words of the bush said by Fish as he drowns for a second time and reconnects with his spiritual self. |
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"Look at us by the river." |
Circular narrative, communal experience valued. |
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"It's just that you feel sorry for yourself sometimes Rose." |
Sam revealing to Rose why he is attempting suicide |
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"All the important things that have happened to me have happened near the river." |
Quick- the river symbolises life, cleansing and purification. The river is a recurring symbol that reinforces themes of love, family, determination and spirituality in the search for completeness. Fish is the character who is most identified with the river. |
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"brotherboy is calling." |
Magical realism, Quick's attachment to Fish |
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"Local mint" "The cocky sh*ts pennies" |
Irony and magical realism |
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"Somewhere a Fish breaks the surface." |
Foreshadowing that Fish will never return to his full self, yearning to return to the water and become one. |
