Flashbacks

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead: Flashbacks 1 key example

Chapter 41
Explanation and Analysis—Demon's Injury:

Demon recounts a life-changing injury received while playing for his high school football team in the form of a flashback: 

I recall trying to watch the game, losing focus. The ringing in my ears. Pain is a sound, a pull. It’s fire. Then I’m at the house, at the bottom of the stairs looking up. Coach bracing me up on one side, Angus the other. Those stairs. Me bottoming out in a helpless bawl. Coach almost falling apart too, saying not to worry, Dr. Watts would come in the morning and he’d get me right. Angus quietly making up Mr. Dick’s downstairs sofa bed for me. The cripple bed.