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Dramatic Irony
3. Darl
Explanation and Analysis—Darl's Water:
In Chapter 3, Darl explores water as a symbol for possibility in a flashback memory:
When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket [...]
I used to lie on the pallet in the hall, waiting until I could hear them all asleep, so I could get up and go back to the bucket. It would be black [...] before I stirred it awake with the dipper I could see maybe a star or two in the bucket, and maybe in the dipper a star or two before I drank.
39. Cora
Explanation and Analysis—Favoring Jewel:
In a flashback in Chapter 39, Cora recounts a prior conversation she had with Addie about her affection for Jewel:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Then I realised that she did not mean God. I realised that out of the vanity of her heart she had spoken sacrilege. And I went down on my knees right there. I begged her to kneel and open her heart and cast from it the devil of vanity and cast herself upon the mercy of the Lord. But she wouldn’t. wouldn’t. She just sat there, lost in her vanity and her pride, that had closed her heart to God and set that selfish mortal boy in His place.
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