Clara+Beck

The Invisible Man Silas Marner
 * "The poor soul's had an accident or an operation or something," said Mrs. Hall. What a turn them bandages did give me, to be sure!" || 03/1 || (P) This man covered in bandages must be the invisible man. It would make sense; cover himself in bandages so that you can't tell he's invisible. ||
 * The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief and relates that Gibbons... || 29/2 || (Q) It says on the cover of the book that what I'm reading is the unabridged version of the story. Knowing that, why did the author decide to do this; to make this chapter so brief and calling attention to the fact that it was done intentionally? ||
 * "Now in order to clearly understand what had happened in the inn, it is necessary to go back to the moment..." || 36/3 || (CL) At this point, I'm starting to realize that this narrator-like tone may just be the author's style of writing. I don't thing I've experienced it before except in scripts for plays, but it's quite interesting. ||
 * "//Get on!//" said the Voice. || 44/4 || (R) The description of the invisible man as, 'the Voice' gives an inhuman quality. This makes sense because we, as humans, have trouble personifying and believing in that which we cannot see. Calling it just 'the Voice' instead of 'the invisible man's voice' makes the invisible man less than human in a sense. ||
 * "Another one of those fools," said Doctor Kemp. ... "One might thing we were in the thirteenth century." || 49/5 || (P) The doctor clearly doesn't believe that the invisible man exists. I predict that soon, he will see that the invisible man really does exist. ||
 * Kemp made no answer for a space, simply stared at the bandage. "Invisible Man," he said. || 55/6 || (CL) The prediction that I made on page forty-nine was proven correct here. ||
 * "The things he may do! And he's upstairs free as the air. What on earth ought I to do?" || 62/7 || (E) Kemp is finally realizing that he has an invisible man in his house and that he could cause all sorts of damage and then just disappear into thin air at any time and he's kind of panicking. ||
 * "You don't mean to say there's an invisible cat at large!" said Kemp || 69/8 || (CL) Cue more sudden and startling realizations of what is actually happening and the possible consequences of everything that's happening. ||
 * "He's not breathing," || 108/ 09 || (E) The unknown is finally dead. The fear of the unknown is leaving now that the unknown is dead. ||
 * And none other will know of them until he dies. || 110/ 10 || (E) The landlord guards the secret so that all the anguish and chaos and fear and everything will hopefully not be repeated. The tone suggests that he bears the burden of guarding these secrets alone. ||
 * he invited no comer to step across his door-sill, and he never strolled through the village to drink a pint at the Rainbow or to gossip at the wheelwrights || 03/1 || (Q)Why was he such a loner? ||
 * "I'm always light in my weather" || 23/2 || (R) You can tell by this quote that this takes place a century or two ago.People don't usually say things like that anymore. ||
 * "And now that all the false hopes had vanished, and the first shock of certainty was past, the idea of a thief began to present itself || 34/3 || (C) The panic starts to set in. Like when you realize your phone isn't your pocket and you don't know where it is. ||
 * The next morning, the whole village was excited by the story of the robbery || 49/4 || (R) People back then didn't have much besides the town news and gossip to entertain themselves with. ||
 * "Come, Master Marner, why, you've no call to sit amoaning. You're a deal better off to ha' lost your money, nor to ha' kept it by foul means." || 64/5 || (E) I think that the author is saying that it's better to not have money than to have money for doing bad things (dirty money). ||
 * "No-no-I can't part with it, I can't let it go," said Silas, abruptly. "It's come to me-I've a right to keep it." || 96/6 || (CL) I would have thought that Eppie would have shown up sooner based on the synopsis on the back of the book. ||