'Sigh No More, No More'

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Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More

Serve God, love me and mend
This is not the end
Lived unbruised, we are friends
And I'm sorry
I'm sorry

Sigh no more, no more
One foot in sea, one on shore
My heart was never pure
You know me
You know me

But man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing

Love; it will not betray you
Dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be

There is a design, an alignment to cry
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be

Love; it will not betray you
Dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be

There is a design, an alignment to cry
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be

Love; it will not betray you
Dismay or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be

And there is a design, an alignment to cry
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be

 

 

 

 

Balthasar (Much Ado About Nothing)- Sigh No More

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more;

Men were deceivers ever:

One foot in sea, and one foot in shore,

To one thing constant never.

Then sigh not so, but let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into 'Hey nonny, nonny'.

 

Sing no more, ditties, sing no moe

Of dumps so dull and heavy:

The fraud of men was ever so,

Since summer first was leavy.

Then sigh not so, but let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into 'Hey nonny, nonny'.

 

'That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore...'

COMEDY DOESN'T HAVE TO BE COMICAL...

'Old Comedy' BC Old

• Greek
• Bawdy - Sexual comedy, Extreme
• Set Pieces and Sketches
• Included fecal matter and immature jokes

'New Comedy' BC Old

• Greek
• Romance
• Reuniting
• Plot
• Happy Endings
• Fast Paced
• Witty

Characters

• Love Struck Man
• Cunning yet cowardly slave
• Angry Father
• Bragging Soldier
• Kind Hearted Prostitute

Shakespearean Comedy 1580 Onwards

• Young Love > Difficulty
• Marriages solve everything
• Doesnt have to be funny
• Mixed bawdy slapstick with more serious wit

Much Ado About Nothing - Questions

Is 'come hither, Leonato' meant for Benedick's ears, or is it meant as a signal to begin the gulling?

Out of the two possibilities, we could suggest both gulling and a message for Benedick's ears.  The message could only be Don Pedro asking Leonato to move closer, but it is most likely to be a signal of the initiation of gulling; as they are gulling they talk louder than needed so Benedick will hear, therefore Leonato does not need to be close.

 

What was it you told me of to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with Signior Benedick? Does Benedick react? If so, how, and how much of a reaction?

He would react with shock, his reaction would be large because of course he thinks she hates him, she previously described him as the 'Princes jester'. He may look towards the audience when he reacts.

Is this a moment for audience contact? If so, where does Benedick need to be in order to make the contact? Does he need to move during the previous lines, from one hiding space to another?

Benedick would need to slowly and hesitantly creep towards the conversation as he hears certain words that catch his attention. He should be hesitant as he feels he really shouldnt be listening in on the private conversation however can do nothing to prevent himself from getting drawn into eaves dropping the conversation.

What are Eight 'graces' which Benedick believes a hypotgetical woman must have before he would even consider to marry her? What is the one quality that he is flexible upon?

Rich

Wise

Virtuous

Fair

Mild

Noble

Well Spoken

Musician

Flexible on 'her hair shall be of what colour it please God'.

What one element of the 'gulling scene' seems to convince Benedick that it is no trick?

Leonato is involved. Benedick describes the 'conference' as 'sadly borne' meaning conducted in a serious manner, he also believes they have facts from Hero.

What effect does the news of Beatrice's possible suicide have on Benedick?

He feels it is his duty to requite her love to save her, he realises his love for her and is willing to endure 'wit broken on' him for her.

What is Beatrice's meaning in the message she delivers to Benedick between lines 243-252? What does Benedick think she means?

Beatrice asks him to dinner, she tells him that it isn't a hard task or she wouldn't have done it. Benedick thinks that she means she wanted to speak to him and that she would endure all the pain in the world for him, he now thinks back to everything she's ever said to him looking for new meaning.

Act 3 Sc 1

How does the form of the language is this gulling scene differ from that used in the scene with Benedick? Why the Difference?

• The men make frequent sexual references throughout e.g. 'Between the sheets'
• Very Critical of Beatrice
• Seems almost rehearsed, or at least a similar scene before. (Although, might just be my opinion)

What are three elements found in common in the gulling of both Benedick and Beatrice?

• Fear of rejection
• Incapability of finding their love
• The love is there, self perception

What is unusual about the form of the language of last ten lines in this scene? Why does Shakespeare have Beatrice speak like this?

The structure of the lines is similar to the sonnet form, as it is about love and romance. Beaturice has been enlightened and had a epithany, filled with realisation of her true love for Benedick.

Roll The Titles...

Much Ado About Nothing:

Nothing - Nothing

Nothing - Noting - Music

Nothing - Noting - Well... 'Male Genitalia'

 

 

The Importance of Being Earnest:

The pun is within the word Earnest, which links to the character Ernest, whose real name isn't only Ernest but is also Jack, confusing I know...

 

Falling of the Road - Its better than it sounds!

NEW TOPIC!!!

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING!!!

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST!!!

I have reached the end of The Road, and glad to see the end of it...

 

The Novel analysed by last years class Pages 29-49 "Where once he'd watched trout swaying in the current"- (page 30) References to time before (flashbacks) "Tomorrow came and went" (page 33) Telescoping through time. "Where he stood once with his own father in a winter long ago"-(page 34) References to a time before (flashbacks). Passage of the days: "In the evening" pg 92 "In the morning" pg 93 "Eternal blackness" pg 101 ‘In the night’ – p121 ‘it was almost light enough to see’ – 123 ‘Afternoon... evening...light draw down over the world’ – in one paragraph p131 ‘He was gone longer than he’d meant to be’ – gives an indication of time flying p130 Markers in the year: "It could be November" pg 93 Telescoped time: "In the evening... tomorrow... dark of night" pg 92 - all in one paragraph "They might have covered three miles" pg 107 "They'd had no food and little sleep in five days" pg 111 Time expands: ‘nothing in his memory anywhere of anything so good’ – p130Abstract references ‘When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time.’ – p120 ‘Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing from their sleep’ – p122Other ‘He would have ample time later to think about that’ – shows there are no deadlines/rushing p113 ‘No time to look’ – contrasts to above quote, shows how we perceive time differs depending on our situation p117 ‘stopping to rest each fifty counted steps’ – shows a new way of making references to time; whereas we might say every 5 minutes, the man uses steps as an indication of passing time p123 Pages 155-175 'They spent the day eating and sleeping' (Page 164) - Telescoping through time 'Impossible to tell what time of the day he was looking at' (Page 164) - Abstract reference to time 'The day was brief, hardly a day at all' (Page 164) - Telescoping through time.'They followed him for a while' (Page 171) - Expanding time Suspended time: "The snow fell nor did it cease to fall" pg 101 Other: "In time to wink out forever" pg 93 "It takes a long time" pg 106 "In the early dawn at latest. Running the road in the night" pg 108 "We probably don't have much time" pg 109 ‘When did you eat last?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘You don’t remember.’ This shows the reader that there is no reason for people on the road to remember when they have eaten as they have no reason to plan meals. We only plan meals today because our day follows a set routine and we eat to keep up with this. On the road however, day and night have almost become one due to the ash and dust that falls, blocking out the sun. They have no concept of time and no reason for it so all they can really distinguish between is day and night so it is easy to imagine how a person could lose track of the days as they are all the same; as long as they are alive, they have no reason to remember when or what they eat. ‘How old are you?’ Similarly to the food, the old man is unable to truthfully recall his age as there is no reason for him to know it and no reminder of the date. Time and day are hypothetical things created by humans to gain a routine in life. However, mankind is dying out and everybody lives in the moment and has no cause to plan ahead, unless people meticulously count each day then it would be impossible to tell precisely when a year has passed and even if someone did work it out, what would be the point? It’s hardly like they’re going to celebrate. McCarthy uses the old man as an example to show that in the novel, the reader can never be certain as to how much time has passed, as the characters have no idea either. ‘How long have you been on the road?’ ‘I’ve always been on the road.’ Once again, in this section, McCarthy uses the dialogue between two characters to make the reader question the necessity of time; the fact that the man can’t actually remember how long he has been on the road for suggests that time is insignificant. The way that the man says he has always been on the road would suggest that time is standing still for these people. McCarthy handles time simply by putting a halt to it to show that it is just another thing on the road which is dying. ‘People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them.’ This quote is suggesting that for all the care we take over time, it doesn’t care about us. It is telling the reader that all the worry we have over keeping to a schedule is ridiculous because time is a made up thing and isn’t going to alter itself to suit us. All the people who worried and invested plans in the future, ironically, weren’t actually as prepared for the next day as they could have been where as those who take each day as it comes are surviving still as they had no expectations and don’t need time to rule their lives. ‘In the morning the stood in the road’ McCarthy gives the reader absolutely no idea what time in the morning they are talking about to once again highlight the lack of importance time holds for people on the road. All they have to go by is the road; they walk along it when it is light enough and sleep when it isn’t, to them it is completely irrelevant what time it is as they have no goals in life other than to get to the sea as quickly as possible with no real aim when they get there, meaning that they can take as long as they need to. ‘In the early afternoon’McCarthy uses slightly more detail in this section. This could be because this is the first time phrase used since they left the old man alone in the road so the man and they boy are paying more attention to time as they are feeling guilty, wondering where the old man is and how long he has been left on his own for. ‘In the night he woke in the cold dark’ McCarthy uses this phrase to lead onto ‘coughing and he coughed till his chest was raw’ to fit in with the image that cold dark night quite often symbolise death, something that we know is imminent for the man but the way the author associates it with time suggests that his time is running out quickly. ‘You said it would last a few weeks’ ‘I know.’ ‘But it’s just been a few days.’ This back up the previous quote in suggesting that time is speeding up and things are going a lot quicker than the man and the boy expected them to. ‘He’d slept little in weeks.’ This shows McCarthy skipping through time to move the novel on but also showing the rapid declination of the man’s health, he gets several weeks worse in the few seconds it takes the reader to read it, to emphasize the pint. Pages 197-217 References to the passage of the day: 'Early the day following' Markers in the year: 'Three days. Four.' Passages in which narrative time is telescoped: 'The following day' Points at which narrative time expands: P.g. 197- 'When three men stepped from behind a truck'- time expands because there is suddenly a lot more detail than the narrator usually gives; this is because it's a tense, potentially dangerous situation but also could be because it's a break from their monotonous daily lives, so every moment is taken in. References to before: P.g. 199- The man dreams of the past in which he visited a half destoyed library. Points at which time is suspended: During the mans dreams on p.g. 199. Abstract references to time: 'They had not gone far'- The novel's characters use distance instead of time as a way to measure their progress, since time is now meaningless but their journey is vital to their survival. Handling of time pg 218-238 Page 226: 'They stayed in the house for four days eating and sleeping'. Time is contracted into a short paragraph. Page 229: 'Long days.' Time has suddenly moved on, we cannot tell whether it is days or weeks. Page 230: 'An hour later...' Chronological order. Page 233: 'With dark they built a fire.' Shows the turning of day to night. Page 235: 'In the morning...' Chronological order. Page 219-224: Several pages devoted to a short time, less than half an hour. Every little detail is told. Page 228-229: Time goes very fast, one second they are at the abandoned house and in the next paragraph they are standing in a supermarket. Then it skips to 'Long days' and we cannot tell whether is has been days or weeks or months. Page 234: Flashback, 'he remembered walking once on such a night...' he is comparing his old beach memories to his experiences on the beach now. He is remembering a better time. This is significant because flashbacks occur throughout the novel as a running theme. Time- Pages 260-280 References to the passage of Time... 1) "He fixed dinner" could suggest evening time p. 261 2) "He loaded the flarepistol and as soon as it was dark" p.262 3) "In the morning" p.263 4) "He held him all night" p.265 5) "In the evening he opened a can of soup" p. 266 6) "...the fire had died down almost to ash and it was a black night" p.266 7) "The boy slept all day" p.267 8) "He tried to stay awake all night" p.267 9) "It rained briefly in the night" p. 268 10) "When he woke again" "Grey daylight" p.268 11) "In two days time" p.270 12) "They went on. It was already late in the day and it wa another hour and deep into the long dusk" P. 273 13) " ...stood there in the cold and gathering dark" p. 278 14) "In the morning" p.279 15) "he woke that night" p.279 16) "In three days" p.280 Markers in the year... 1) "The wintery dawn was coming" p. 266- This suggests that the months are later in the year. We depend on hints like the weather and how McCarthy describes the sceneary to establish/ estimate what time of the year it is. 2) "The earth itself contracting with the cold" p.279 This tells us that it is winter time or maybe the Earths condidtion is just becoming even worse so it is getting colder. Either suggestion could tell us that the novel has moved to the winter months of the year. 3) "What time of year?" p.279 This contradicts the hints of what time of year it is, because the man and the boy do not even know, so it is impossible to be certain what time of year it is. Narrative time is telescoped... 1) "In three days they came to a small port town"- This passage of time has no mention of what may have happened within those three days,which creates confusion as the reader wonders why this passage of time has gone quicker than others as McCarthy often describes the days/nights events. 2) "In two days' time they were walking the beach as far as the headland and back"- Again time has passed quickly as we do not get any description of what has happened within those two days. Points at which Narrative time expands... The shooting of the Road Rat and the stealing of their possessions is an example of Narrative time expanding. This is too build up the tension of what The man will do to him. Also the narrative time could be expanded to show the true character of The man, and how The boy reacts to his fathers actions. The event goes for seven pages. McCarthy may have done this to show the raw emotions of the boy and how his fathers action have shaped and changed his view of him. Points at which time seems to be suspended... When The boy and The man are looking for their stolen cart, time seems to be suspended "They went on. It was already late in the day and it was another hour into the long dusk" the words "Another" and "long" create a sense of time going slowly. This creates tension as the reader wonders if they will find their cart as time seems to be running out for them before it starts to get dark. McCarthy suspends time here to build up tension, "They went on." makes it seem like they have been searching of their cart for a long time. This suspends time because we as the readers want them to get their belongings back, but it appears to be taking a while to find the thief so we start to doubt id they will find it. When the boy becomes ill, time seems susupended. ""You have to stay near, he said. You have to be quick. So you can be with him. Hold him close. Last day of the earth" Time appears to be suspended becasue the we can sense that the man is worried for the boy, and it seems like he is getting worse so time has slowed down and is hanging on to this tense moment. The mans speech also creates suspended time as it appears like he is trying to prepare himself for the worst, which creates more tension. Pages 302-307 Reference to before-'Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains' page 306 Time seems to be suspended and more abstract view of time- 'On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming' page 307 Time is telescoped 'He cried for a long time' page 306 Time seems suspended 'You could see them standing in

The Novel analysed by last years class

Pages 29-49

"Where once he'd watched trout swaying in the current"- (page 30) References to time before (flashbacks)
"Tomorrow came and went" (page 33) Telescoping through time.
"Where he stood once with his own father in a winter long ago"-(page 34) References to a time before (flashbacks).

 

Passage of the days:

"In the evening" pg 92
"In the morning" pg 93
"Eternal blackness" pg 101

‘In the night’ – p121
‘it was almost light enough to see’ – 123
‘Afternoon... evening...light draw down over the world’ – in one paragraph p131
‘He was gone longer than he’d meant to be’ – gives an indication of time flying p130

 

Markers in the year:

"It could be November" pg 93

 

Telescoped time:

"In the evening... tomorrow... dark of night" pg 92 - all in one paragraph
"They might have covered three miles" pg 107
"They'd had no food and little sleep in five days" pg 111

Time expands:

‘nothing in his memory anywhere of anything so good’ – p130Abstract references
‘When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time.’ – p120
‘Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing from their sleep’ – p122Other
‘He would have ample time later to think about that’ – shows there are no deadlines/rushing p113
‘No time to look’ – contrasts to above quote, shows how we perceive time differs depending on our situation p117

‘stopping to rest each fifty counted steps’ – shows a new way of making references to time; whereas we might say every 5 minutes, the man uses steps as an indication of passing time p123
Pages 155-175
'They spent the day eating and sleeping' (Page 164) - Telescoping through time
'Impossible to tell what time of the day he was looking at' (Page 164) - Abstract reference to time
'The day was brief, hardly a day at all' (Page 164) - Telescoping through time.
'They followed him for a while' (Page 171) - Expanding time

Suspended time:

"The snow fell nor did it cease to fall" pg 101

Other:
"In time to wink out forever" pg 93
"It takes a long time" pg 106
"In the early dawn at latest. Running the road in the night" pg 108
"We probably don't have much time" pg 109


‘When did you eat last?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘You don’t remember.’
This shows the reader that there is no reason for people on the road to remember when they have eaten as they have no reason to plan meals. We only plan meals today because our day follows a set routine and we eat to keep up with this. On the road however, day and night have almost become one due to the ash and dust that falls, blocking out the sun. They have no concept of time and no reason for it so all they can really distinguish between is day and night so it is easy to imagine how a person could lose track of the days as they are all the same; as long as they are alive, they have no reason to remember when or what they eat.

‘How old are you?’
Similarly to the food, the old man is unable to truthfully recall his age as there is no reason for him to know it and no reminder of the date. Time and day are hypothetical things created by humans to gain a routine in life. However, mankind is dying out and everybody lives in the moment and has no cause to plan ahead, unless people meticulously count each day then it would be impossible to tell precisely when a year has passed and even if someone did work it out, what would be the point? It’s hardly like they’re going to celebrate. McCarthy uses the old man as an example to show that in the novel, the reader can never be certain as to how much time has passed, as the characters have no idea either.

‘How long have you been on the road?’ ‘I’ve always been on the road.’
Once again, in this section, McCarthy uses the dialogue between two characters to make the reader question the necessity of time; the fact that the man can’t actually remember how long he has been on the road for suggests that time is insignificant. The way that the man says he has always been on the road would suggest that time is standing still for these people. McCarthy handles time simply by putting a halt to it to show that it is just another thing on the road which is dying.

‘People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them.’
This quote is suggesting that for all the care we take over time, it doesn’t care about us. It is telling the reader that all the worry we have over keeping to a schedule is ridiculous because time is a made up thing and isn’t going to alter itself to suit us. All the people who worried and invested plans in the future, ironically, weren’t actually as prepared for the next day as they could have been where as those who take each day as it comes are surviving still as they had no expectations and don’t need time to rule their lives.

‘In the morning the stood in the road’
McCarthy gives the reader absolutely no idea what time in the morning they are talking about to once again highlight the lack of importance time holds for people on the road. All they have to go by is the road; they walk along it when it is light enough and sleep when it isn’t, to them it is completely irrelevant what time it is as they have no goals in life other than to get to the sea as quickly as possible with no real aim when they get there, meaning that they can take as long as they need to.
‘In the early afternoon’McCarthy uses slightly more detail in this section. This could be because this is the first time phrase used since they left the old man alone in the road so the man and they boy are paying more attention to time as they are feeling guilty, wondering where the old man is and how long he has been left on his own for.

‘In the night he woke in the cold dark’
McCarthy uses this phrase to lead onto ‘coughing and he coughed till his chest was raw’ to fit in with the image that cold dark night quite often symbolise death, something that we know is imminent for the man but the way the author associates it with time suggests that his time is running out quickly.

‘You said it would last a few weeks’ ‘I know.’ ‘But it’s just been a few days.’
This back up the previous quote in suggesting that time is speeding up and things are going a lot quicker than the man and the boy expected them to.

‘He’d slept little in weeks.’
This shows McCarthy skipping through time to move the novel on but also showing the rapid declination of the man’s health, he gets several weeks worse in the few seconds it takes the reader to read it, to emphasize the pint.

Pages 197-217
References to the passage of the day:
'Early the day following'

Markers in the year:
'Three days. Four.'

Passages in which narrative time is telescoped:
'The following day'

Points at which narrative time expands:
P.g. 197- 'When three men stepped from behind a truck'- time expands because there is suddenly a lot more detail than the narrator usually gives; this is because it's a tense, potentially dangerous situation but also could be because it's a break from their monotonous daily lives, so every moment is taken in.

References to before:
P.g. 199- The man dreams of the past in which he visited a half destoyed library.

Points at which time is suspended:
During the mans dreams on p.g. 199.

Abstract references to time:
'They had not gone far'- The novel's characters use distance instead of time as a way to measure their progress, since time is now meaningless but their journey is vital to their survival.

Handling of time pg 218-238
Page 226: 'They stayed in the house for four days eating and sleeping'. Time is contracted into a short paragraph.

Page 229: 'Long days.' Time has suddenly moved on, we cannot tell whether it is days or weeks.

Page 230: 'An hour later...' Chronological order.

Page 233: 'With dark they built a fire.' Shows the turning of day to night.

Page 235: 'In the morning...' Chronological order.

Page 219-224: Several pages devoted to a short time, less than half an hour. Every little detail is told.

Page 228-229: Time goes very fast, one second they are at the abandoned house and in the next paragraph they are standing in a supermarket. Then it skips to 'Long days' and we cannot tell whether is has been days or weeks or months.

Page 234: Flashback, 'he remembered walking once on such a night...' he is comparing his old beach memories to his experiences on the beach now. He is remembering a better time. This is significant because flashbacks occur throughout the novel as a running theme.

Time- Pages 260-280

References to the passage of Time...

1) "He fixed dinner" could suggest evening time p. 261
2) "He loaded the flarepistol and as soon as it was dark" p.262
3) "In the morning" p.263
4) "He held him all night" p.265
5) "In the evening he opened a can of soup" p. 266
6) "...the fire had died down almost to ash and it was a black night" p.266
7) "The boy slept all day" p.267
8) "He tried to stay awake all night" p.267
9) "It rained briefly in the night" p. 268
10) "When he woke again" "Grey daylight" p.268
11) "In two days time" p.270
12) "They went on. It was already late in the day and it wa another hour and deep into the long dusk" P. 273
13) " ...stood there in the cold and gathering dark" p. 278
14) "In the morning" p.279
15) "he woke that night" p.279
16) "In three days" p.280

Markers in the year...

1) "The wintery dawn was coming" p. 266- This suggests that the months are later in the year. We depend on hints like the weather and how McCarthy describes the sceneary to establish/ estimate what time of the year it is.

2) "The earth itself contracting with the cold" p.279 This tells us that it is winter time or maybe the Earths condidtion is just becoming even worse so it is getting colder. Either suggestion could tell us that the novel has moved to the winter months of the year.

3) "What time of year?" p.279 This contradicts the hints of what time of year it is, because the man and the boy do not even know, so it is impossible to be certain what time of year it is.

Narrative time is telescoped...

1) "In three days they came to a small port town"- This passage of time has no mention of what may have happened within those three days,which creates confusion as the reader wonders why this passage of time has gone quicker than others as McCarthy often describes the days/nights events.

2) "In two days' time they were walking the beach as far as the headland and back"- Again time has passed quickly as we do not get any description of what has happened within those two days.

Points at which Narrative time expands...

The shooting of the Road Rat and the stealing of their possessions is an example of Narrative time expanding. This is too build up the tension of what The man will do to him. Also the narrative time could be expanded to show the true character of The man, and how The boy reacts to his fathers actions. The event goes for seven pages. McCarthy may have done this to show the raw emotions of the boy and how his fathers action have shaped and changed his view of him.

Points at which time seems to be suspended...

When The boy and The man are looking for their stolen cart, time seems to be suspended "They went on. It was already late in the day and it was another hour into the long dusk" the words "Another" and "long" create a sense of time going slowly. This creates tension as the reader wonders if they will find their cart as time seems to be running out for them before it starts to get dark. McCarthy suspends time here to build up tension, "They went on." makes it seem like they have been searching of their cart for a long time. This suspends time because we as the readers want them to get their belongings back, but it appears to be taking a while to find the thief so we start to doubt id they will find it.

When the boy becomes ill, time seems susupended. ""You have to stay near, he said. You have to be quick. So you can be with him. Hold him close. Last day of the earth" Time appears to be suspended becasue the we can sense that the man is worried for the boy, and it seems like he is getting worse so time has slowed down and is hanging on to this tense moment. The mans speech also creates suspended time as it appears like he is trying to prepare himself for the worst, which creates more tension.
Pages 302-307

Reference to before-'Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains' page 306
Time seems to be suspended and more abstract view of time- 'On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming' page 307
Time is telescoped 'He cried for a long time' page 306
Time seems suspended 'You could see them standing in

Symbols & Metaphors

Water, Cleaning and Washing

• Cleanliness, washing away the worlds horrors, water could link to the boy being baptizied, drowning,
• Takes place a few times and these are when the father cleans the boy, the last time is in the bunker as this is the last time that they are safe.

The Sea

• Hope, saftey, food, water, blue, grey, dead fish,
• Throughout the book the sea is the place where man and boy are trying to get to when they get there they are dissapointed as the sea is just like everything else in the world.

The Colour Grey (Gray)

• Surroundings, everything, mirrors the value of people in the world, everything is grey other than the fathers memorys e.g. the memory of him and his wife in the theatre as the place is described as golden.

Ash

• Constant, covers everything, reminder of death

could be the ash of people for all things when burnt turn to ash, giving the lives of the boy and man trudging through human ash a bit more of an omnious feel.

Fire

• Heat, burn, destruction, death, hope, spirit, the two characters "carry the fire" but that is never truly defined as to what it is, could it be hope, strength, being a good guy? or could it really be something more sinister, like a weapon or chip embeded in them which could cause more distruction?
  
• Sight/sightlessness
  - the future, looking over the see there is nothing to be seen other than skeletons on the beach and a crashed boat, when the father shoots a flare into the sky they can see nothing, this is the point where the two realise there is no help, no sympathy in the world other than theirs.

Seeds

• Music/musical instruments - showing that there is still some beauty in the world, the father makes the boy an instument which he later throws away, music is shown to be the same as inocence, the boy becomes an adult thus losing that inocence and nolonger needing the music
• Rebirth, food, hope, the seeds being eaten by the man and boy are symbolic of nations taking things before they are ready, that things are not given time to establish and so are destroyed. they could also symbolise the fact that potential is still in the earth to reawaken from this death or sleep.

Animal Imagery

Imaginary, skeltons are found but nowhere in the book are there animals shown, they could either all be dead or in some other far off country, the boy however constantly wonders where any animals are.


Religious Imagery 

Hope for the father and son, anti-prophet Ely, the boy calls himself "the one" and his father asks Ely if he would believe that his son was a god.
The Coca Cola Can

How things used to be, the sweet in a sour world a very important symbol of american culture, a symbol of national unity in the second world war and the spirit of america in the present times.