Like a House on Fire lonelyness quotes

Flexion - ms slovak describing frank

“The man can’t feel a thing” - metaphorical, Irony,suggesting emotional numbness or detachment in contrast to physical ability.

Flexion ms slovak pain

“so that not even the local nurses would know” - had to deal w misscarige alone, isolated bc of him.

“Its almost like being on holiday” - no frank, meals cooked for her

“shes shocked to acknowledge how resigned she feels to this, how it almost seems like the best option” - she has waded into a dam, opening paragraph with despiration and suffering allows reader to be on her side

Healing in Ashes. hint 6 quotes

“hes noticed she can hardly bring herself to touch the box” - start of journey, healing from grief

“he expected tears there were none” mother hasnt began to deal with pain yet

“left a lingering ache” healing for chris is a long way

“lovely silver frame” SYMBOL - empty, wants to fill in

“i feel nervous here alone” not articulating nerves, still needs to heal

““what would it have cost him to give his father that, instead of a shrug,just for the small mean pleasure of feeling his father turn away, defeated” - self reflection, happy to let father down, regret.

loneliness in laminex and mirrors

“dunno whats gunns kill me first” - Mr moreton talking about matron restricting him

“empty garden outside.”thats just the way it goes” - mr moretons metaphor for his life and his acceptance

lonliness in five dollar family

“she wants to cry with frustration but she’s scared to” - she doesn’t feel the support or comfortable enough to let herself go

“surf through the channels of the tv” - des showing no support or interest in her giving birth

sleepers loneliness

“the same deep dragging inertia” - not do anything

“like a slow anaesthetic” - numbness, when thinking of being alone

“there must have been something wrong with” depression

‘its just ray” - undermining who he is