Rachel, Isaac, Jasmine And JONATHAN Chapter 14 Rachel, Isaac, Jasmine And JONATHAN

Summary and significance to the whole text Kingshaw meets Fielding. brings hope that Kingshaw might learn how to cope with Hooper Contrast of ‘normal’(Fielding) and ‘abnormal’(Kingshaw and Warings) is shown

Settings Warings The hospital isolation The hospital Outside Warings (the church, Fielding’s house) Kingshaw’s escape contrasts with Warings

Narrative voice Kingshaw Mrs Kingshaw Hooper flashback shows Kingshaw’s uncertainty begins before he arrives at Warings wants to appear tough and strong Mrs Kingshaw emphasizes on her selfishness and ignorance Hooper possessive and spiteful

Characterisation Kingshaw is finally safe from Hooper (for a while) Happy Fielding - carefree - willing to help - confident -seems unaffected by Hooper Possessive Hooper “She would rather be with me than with him”pg 172 Kingshaw “Fielding is mine, this is all mine, mine”pg 183 Slight insanity (abnormality) ((for an eleven year old)) ”it will be all right” pg 183 the way he comforts himself throughout whole book how “children will always get along” does not work for Hooper and Kingshaw

Language “Slithering” - used quite a lot for describing “snake-shaped” -suggest sinister tone - reminds reader that this is not a book where ‘happy endings’ exist

Themes Isolation Possession “please make her go away now” “we might as well be on the moon” “Warings, surrounded by the high hedge, dark and inaccessible” Possession “Fielding is mine, this is all mine, mine” “He was pleased, even though he did not much like her.” Contrast - mostly about death or something morbid (even the way it is narrated is carries a heavy atmosphere ) strongly with everything at Warings, Hang Wood and Kingshaw’s thoughts

Symbolism Water Animals Farm duality, meaning life and death -links to the prominent ‘death’ theme at Warings and at the farm where the cow gives birth and later about the turkeys Animals cow - Life ‘create new or start a new’ turkey - narrated in a somewhat aloof manner suggesting that it is natural for everything to die Farm complete opposite of Warings “ surrounded by the high hedge, dark and inaccessible” pg 175 it seems as though readers can get a breath of fresh air from the morbidness of Warings farm is like a place where everything should be natural and an escape for Kingshaw

Contribution to ending forebodes Kingshaw’s death “Kingshaw kept remembering it, thinking about the darkness and coldness” “We found a stream.” the stream under the bridge