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Part a)
The narrator describes the farm, her father’s workplace, as being tidy and ingenious. She seems to be very observant of every little detail and inventive thing her father had put together to make the place look this way. She shows enthusiasm and interest in what he does. His jobs were “ritualistically important” and although he would not speak to her, unless it was regarding the job, she looked up to him and felt a sense of pride working under his eyes. In the description of her mother’s workplace, the kitchen, she explains as being hot and dark. The work her mother does, making jelly and peeling potatoes, she believes is “endless and dreary and peculiarly depressing”. This particular binary is interesting because the narrator describes the outdoors this time of year with the cold, windy weather and a swamp that gave off a “chorus of threats and misery”. However, they are not afraid of the outdoors. She describes the indoors, more specifically downstairs, being warm, lit and giving off the “smell of oranges and pine needles”. This gives the illusion of a safe place in comparison to the outdoors, yet the children are afraid of the indoors. As she goes on to describe the area where they sleep, she explains it as being unfinished and almost gloomy. She explains the rules they've created to keep safe while in their room. With the lights on they were only safe when standing on the square of carpet and with lights out only their beds were safe. I believe this idea illustrates a binary in the story because as a reader we might assume that the indoors is a safer place than outside by the description the narrator gives us. However this misconception is untrue because the children in fact feel safer outside than they do inside.
Part b)
Looking at the character Eustacia Vye, who is hateful of where she lives, falls into a marriage with a man named Clym. They both misunderstand each other’s motives. It appears that she dies due to drowning but it’s not clear whether it was accidental or suicide. In Moby Dick there are 2 boats that are hunting one whale, the Rachel and the Pequod. The captain of the Pequod seems to be somewhat similar to Eustacia’s character as he is resilient to help when asked and he himself dies in a shipwreck due to his stubbornness and obsession with catching the whale. Ham Peggoty, in David Copperfield, lives in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England and he dies drowning while trying to save Steerforth, the man his fiancé Emily left him for, from a shipwreck.
The narrator describes the farm, her father’s workplace, as being tidy and ingenious. She seems to be very observant of every little detail and inventive thing her father had put together to make the place look this way. She shows enthusiasm and interest in what he does. His jobs were “ritualistically important” and although he would not speak to her, unless it was regarding the job, she looked up to him and felt a sense of pride working under his eyes. In the description of her mother’s workplace, the kitchen, she explains as being hot and dark. The work her mother does, making jelly and peeling potatoes, she believes is “endless and dreary and peculiarly depressing”. This particular binary is interesting because the narrator describes the outdoors this time of year with the cold, windy weather and a swamp that gave off a “chorus of threats and misery”. However, they are not afraid of the outdoors. She describes the indoors, more specifically downstairs, being warm, lit and giving off the “smell of oranges and pine needles”. This gives the illusion of a safe place in comparison to the outdoors, yet the children are afraid of the indoors. As she goes on to describe the area where they sleep, she explains it as being unfinished and almost gloomy. She explains the rules they've created to keep safe while in their room. With the lights on they were only safe when standing on the square of carpet and with lights out only their beds were safe. I believe this idea illustrates a binary in the story because as a reader we might assume that the indoors is a safer place than outside by the description the narrator gives us. However this misconception is untrue because the children in fact feel safer outside than they do inside.
Part b)
Looking at the character Eustacia Vye, who is hateful of where she lives, falls into a marriage with a man named Clym. They both misunderstand each other’s motives. It appears that she dies due to drowning but it’s not clear whether it was accidental or suicide. In Moby Dick there are 2 boats that are hunting one whale, the Rachel and the Pequod. The captain of the Pequod seems to be somewhat similar to Eustacia’s character as he is resilient to help when asked and he himself dies in a shipwreck due to his stubbornness and obsession with catching the whale. Ham Peggoty, in David Copperfield, lives in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England and he dies drowning while trying to save Steerforth, the man his fiancé Emily left him for, from a shipwreck.
