how i live 5-8

pg 163

#5 Quote

   " Each time my heart would race at the smallest suggestion that we had company, usually it was a moth thudding against a window , or mice or nothing at all"

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when you have done something in a while you tend to forget how to do it when it comes back around . Since war was on and no one was really out it was awkward to hear noises. It would catch you by surprise and make you a little frightened.

Analysis

   Being in an area where its quite all the time seems sad. It seems as if Elizabeth is looking forward to noise , for some excitement , just something in stead of being bored and doing nothing but reading the same books all the time.

pg 167

Quote #6

  "I ended up in a hospital, where they kept me for months after i arrived back in New York, staring at a wall, stunned silent frozen rigid with anger and grief. my willingness to eat confused and annoyed and the staff , confounding their effort to understand what i was doing there.... eventually they were forced to release me, still unable to diagnose the obvious..... I was in the hospital because it was convenient. It was the only way to get me out of England.

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   Elizabeth gave up , she was not fit to stay in England because that's something she really isn't use to. No one could every imagine someone Else's sufferings unless they're there to witness the struggle just to stay alive at least to get to the next night.

Analysis

Its pretty clear she didn't want to be out through starvation , the killing , slashing, depriving , she felt it would be punishing herself. she went to England somewhat by choice , so she chose to find her way out.

pg 169

Quote #7

  " it took all this time for the war to end .... The occupation itself lasted only nine months; by Christmas that first year it was over. By then i was back in New York City, not because i wanted to be but because i was half dragged and half deported and the final half was blackmail, and after all the rest of the things i managed to resist , i didn't have the strength left for that particular fight"

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i would never think of of that would of happened just for her to get back to New York . i fell as if its kind of selfish of her to give up and leave her cousins behind. Her cousins cant just walk away , so i feel she should of stuck by their sides.

Analysis

In fact after all that she had been through , in the end the whole time her mind was focused on being away from Edmond. It hurt her not knowing what ever happened to him. but she didn't let that distract her from getting where she felt she belonged... which is HOME.

pg173

Quote #8

"the airport was unrecognizable from my last visit, completely overgrown with gorse and ivy and huge prehistoric-looking thistles. Just as Issac had predicated the landscape was happily romping away from civilization.

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its crazy how much a damage a war can cause and how long a war can last and still manage to damage things. but she was on her journey to the way home. As soon as she got the stamp on her passport she knew it had just began."

Analysis

She had left everything behind and shes heading for the bus that would soon take her home , 7 hours and 2 buses later she only had finished her journey to reach the outside of the village and it looks like it had be deserted for ages.