Post by Emma Kaer on Aug 28, 2017 3:05:58 GMT -5
Early on in the book, on page 132, There's a quote about ice skaters, "They stop at the edge of an irrigation canal. In winters past, Werner used to two her in their wagon to this very spot, and they would watch skaters race along the frozen canal, farmers with blades fixed to their feet and frost caked in their beards, five or six rushing by all at once tightly packed, in the midst of an eight- to nine-mile race between towns. The look in the skaters' eyes was of horses who have run a long way, and it was always exciting for Werner to see them, to feel the air disturbed by their speed, to hear their skates lapping along, the fading--- a sensation as if his soul might tear free of his body and go sparking off with them. But as soon as they'd continued around the bend and left behind only the white etchings of their skates in the ice the thrill would fade, and he'd tow Jutta back to Children's House feeling lonely and forsaken and more trapped in his life than before.
'He says, "No skaters came last winter,'
His sister gazes into the ditch. Her eyes mauve. Her hair is snarled and untamable and perhaps even whiter than his. Schnee.
She says'No One'll come this year either.'" I believe this is an instant of foreshadowing. The ice skaters that once made him so happy, made him feel so alive are gone. And as Jutta says will most likely not be coming back. I feel like this is a simple way of the author showing that everything was changing, and not for the better.
'He says, "No skaters came last winter,'
His sister gazes into the ditch. Her eyes mauve. Her hair is snarled and untamable and perhaps even whiter than his. Schnee.
She says'No One'll come this year either.'" I believe this is an instant of foreshadowing. The ice skaters that once made him so happy, made him feel so alive are gone. And as Jutta says will most likely not be coming back. I feel like this is a simple way of the author showing that everything was changing, and not for the better.