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

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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