EN107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Parapet, Divine Right Of Kings, Tyrant
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The ilm"s representaion of theo vs. the novel"s representaion of him. P. 238: theo heard xan"s bullet hiss harmlessly through the sleeve of his jacket. He knew that in that half-second he couldn"t have seen what aterwards he so clearly remembered: xan"s face transigured with joy and triumph; couldn"t have heard his great shout of airmaion, like the shout on the bridge at woolcombe. But it was with that remembered shout in his ears that he shot xan through the heart. P. 18-19: i discovered that a skirmish had been fought on that bridge in the civil war when ive young cavaliers had held the bridge against the roundheads unil all of them had fallen. Even their names were set out, a roll-call of romanic courage: ormerod, freemantle, cole, We went to the bridge at sunset with a botle of his father"s claret, the two pistols, my arms illed with lowers from the walled garden.
