SWTWC: Notes Chapters 4 -14

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SWTWC Notes Chapters 4 -14

• Describe the storm what is coming?
• What do people sense about it?
• Why do people keep thinking about boyhood/youth?
• Tetley cigar store owner
• Crosetti barber
• Christmas song incongruous (explain)
• The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
• GOOD and EVIL - - - -which shall win?
• Cooger and Darks Pandemonium Shadow Show
• pandemonium a place marked by choas and
  disorder
• shadow a second image of something/shaded/undef
  ined
• dark cloaked and scary/without goodness and
  light
• Constant images shadow and dark
• Mr. Dark The Illustrated Man

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• The most beautiful Woman in the world
• -first carnival image of temptation
• -woman in ice represents temptation/sin
• wanting what you can not have DESIRE
• Who sees the block of ice?
• Charles Halloway
• Tom Fury
• Iron pieces- signs and symbols throughout history
  that made people believe that they are safe
• Halloway Family not very close, but they seem
  content and complete
• mother happy and caring
• father dissatisfied and unhappy at home at
  the library???
• Nightshade Family just Jim and his mother
• mother sad and has had a tough life/worries
  about Jim leaving
• father took off and is not around
• siblings - died

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• Carnival three inconsistencies with the
  carnival
• Oct 24th (usually end after Labor Day)
• 3 AM - calliope music at night (usually arrive
  at dawn)
• bodys at low tide
• soul is out
• blood moves slow nearest death youll ever be
  save dying (hospitals)
• silence (usually noisy hustle and bustle)
• (personification skeleton canvas skinhuman
  strength/(its alive)
• Balloon!?!? Mirror maze - waiting
• Train whistle protests of a billion people
  dead or dying
• -calliope church music, no one playing
• -BALLOON??
• -imagery spider, water

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• women versus men sin/temptation
• - Who is more likely to give in and be tempted?
• She is immortal. She has a son. ch14
• -mothers live on, bind eternity with their
  children (live forever)
• Character Development
• Roles Charles insightful advisor
• Will protector and bodyguard
• Jim risk-taker