English quotes memorisation

BP 1: Sacrifice and Survival

ETA 1

• “"steered clear of gangs like this... big blokes... Like dogs on the scent of a feed, all running together in a pack"

• Techniques: Dehumanising simile, zoomorphism

• Analysis: The Wilders hunting survivors shows that surviving purely through brute force strips people of empathy, reducing human beings to savage predators.

ETA 2

• “I could leave her… it’d be easy.”

• Techniques: Short, truncated syntax, Internal monologue, ellipsis

• Analysis: Finn’s urge to abandon Rose highlights the struggle between fear and conscience, proving that moral survival requires actively choosing empathy over comfortable, safe isolation.

ETA 3

• “Everything feels like it’s falling in on me, Rose has come, the Wilders have seen me, and now she’s sick. And Pregnant.”

• Techniques: Simile, cumulative listing, paradox 

• Analysis: Finn's rising panic shows that compassion brings real danger, demonstrating that taking on heavy burdens to protect the vulnerable, creates a paradox of his lonely self-preservation that he has usually enacts, for connection.

BP 2: The Significance of Purpose and Hope in a Post-Apocalyptic World

ETA 4

• “We had buried Dad in the backyard, and neither of us could bring ourselves to leave him.”

• Techniques: Symbol

• Analysis: Finn clinging to his father’s grave shows that routine without future purpose keeps people chained to trauma, proving that mere physical endurance leads to emotional paralysis.

ETA 5

• “You’re not alone here, Finn. Stella and me will stick up for all of you… bringing that baby into the world safely.”

• Techniques: Protective tone, inclusive dialogue

• Analysis: Harry and Stella including Finn in their shelter transforms solitary survival into shared duty, showing that collective responsibility gives people a vital reason to endure adversity.
  

ETA 6

• “For the first time in weeks… the events of the last month… are all washed clean.”

• Liminal imagery(of ocean), metaphor, symbol(surfing)

• Analysis:Finn surfing the ocean provides psychological release, revealing that surviving trauma requires moments of passion and renewal rather than just endless suffering.

BP 3: Humanity and Codes of Morality: Social and Personal

ETA 7

• “High fences, barbed wire along the top. Big gates… Kids whose parents just died…empty chaff bags thrown over us for warmth.”

• Techniques: Tricolon, symbol of control, juxtaposition

• Analysis: Describing Ramage’s compound reveals how lawlessness creates brutal systems of control, proving that without ethical codes, the strong will always exploit the weak.

ETA 8

• “but even though I feel that he doesn’t deserve to live, I can't bring myself to do it…something deep inside me..

• Techniques: Juxtaposition, metaphor.

• Analysis: Finn’s refusal to kill Ramage contrasts vengeful anger with moral restraint, demonstrating that an internal conscience stops traumatised survivors from becoming as monstrous as their oppressors.

ETA 9

• ”Warda, is my Siley…” contrasted to “Rose”

• Techniques: Objectifying possessive noun, Contrast

• Analysis:Juxtaposes Ramage owning Rose as a "Siley" like property ,with Finn honouring her real name shows that moral resistance begins with restoring another person’s dignity and autonomy.