IRIS KISSED WEST VICOUSLY, AS IF SHE NEEDED HIM TO EXIST. He wrapped his arms around her tightly, holding each other, to the point where Jane had to shake herself awake, so that she wouldn’t be ill from the rage filling inside her, brewing in her, so merciless, so potent, watching them kiss, after a few hours ago his lips were on hers. Jane bit her tongue, afraid she might collapse from sickness as she gasped for air and then grabbed the side of the boat to steady herself. She adjusted the sheath belt with her sword, inhaling uneasily, watching West and Iris with such jealousy that she was afraid it would erupt from her throat. The anger at West consumed her; the secret thought that he loved Iris more. She grinded her teeth and turned her …show more content…
West reached for her hand and held it. “Jane,” he hesitated, like his words were broken and not easy to say. He opened his lips, with so much hope in his voice, almost pleading, as if he were afraid to lose her permanently. Mr. Winooski signaled to them. “Hey, let’s get going.” West stiffened and looked at her hand like it didn’t belong. They hurried as he took a step toward Iris, and Jane slumped behind them, trying to extinguish the raging flames in her eyes. Their back was to Wolverton, the remains of the devastation whirling in the wind. They peered through the grasses that lined either side as if it were a thorn-linked fence. Jane’s hands were covered in small cuts, and prickly vines kept catching on her wings, tangling and yanking her long hair in its knot. Colt was alive, she repeated in her head when she felt her fear tremble her hands like they typically do when she’s anxious or worried. Something was closing in on them, movement that was crouching low and behind the tall grass. There were others gathering behind them, screeching furiously, the heavy breathing of hunters watchfully making a plan in their
The sound of crunchy leaves and twigs breaking. Whitney grabbed his rifle and held it in the direction from where the noise was coming from. Then the noise had stopped but they still couldn’t see whom or what it was. After a few in silence they began to do what they were doing before the noises started to happen. They walked off into the woods after they’ve gotten done finishing cooking.
I make a fire’... I set out on my search.” As you can tell, she is taking charge and trying to make the best out of the situation. She had to leave the city and her sick mother. Her grandfather and her were booted off the carriage that would take them to
Additionally, the hunted had refused to back down and continued to the death, “Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!” (14). Even while they were being slaughter by “wolves” and in a sealed
These qualities are what tempts the narrator as he watches over a hedge bordering Sheila’s
I can’t believe how much damage there is. I think about the kind of rage it would take to sustain this much damage. I think about the damage the fire caused Joan’s house. I feel very tired.”
Red and orange flames burnt everything to ashes, and thick clouds of smoke filled the air, turning the sky black. Fear filled Sarah’s mind and she felt the chill of death hovering in the atmosphere. The gunfire continued. She continued to rock back and forth as she sat curled up in a tight ball in the corner of her room.
“So she left that tree, and had to go through a barbed-wire fence.” (pg. 48) She physically had to go through a fence to carry on with her quest. Many things happened to her where she had to put herself in danger in order to keep going. “Over she went in the ditch, like a little puff of milkweed.”
Jane’s ability to undergo an atrocious youth allowed her to gain her tenacity. Though she does question herself, ultimately, Jane pursues her own individuality and self-respect. Jane’s pursuit complicates itself when she encounters Mr.
The creature sprang near an area of grass nearby the bush. It began circling the bush as Jonathan attempted to shield his mouth from making more sound. Jonathan bolted out of the bush running quickly, attempting to push sticks in the way of the creature. He caught his leg on a stick he was trying to push into the way and fell. Silence fell as Jonathan looked around Terrified.
Accordingly, these desires also show the motifs of secrecy and nature: “fervent longing . . . of nature” (36). On the other hand, Elizabeth’s calmness is inferior to Victor’s thirst for knowledge, which shows Victor’s sexist, male point-of-view: “Elizabeth was . .
She held him a little tighter seeing in her minds eye how she would feel if someone stole her beloved family
When I’m out there, I stay as close as I can to the sand, because at least then I know where it ends.” She didn’t speak for a while, just continued walking a little bit ahead of him. Maybe she was thinking about fire, the thing she had told him she most feared. Marcus had never seen so much as a picture of her father, but he imagined that he had been a fearsome man with a scar covering one whole side of his face.
Anna and Jane would go on to have an oil and water type of relationship. They would have pointless fights full of self-righteousness, on Anna’s part. These fights with Anna made Jane realize she didn 't want to inflict pain on
The setting is so elaborately constructed that the reader can sense everything around Jane, and occasionally, even feel her pain; thus tracing back to Lau’s description of her