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James Gadd
Harry Gadd is the ten-year-old grandson of James Gadd and the child whose imperilment begins the novel. Trapped in the basket of a wind-tossed hot-air balloon, Harry must be rescued before the balloon can be blown into nearby power lines. Once John Logan falls to his death and Harry realizes that he is on his own, he slowly lets air out of the balloon and returns to the ground safely.
Harry Gadd Quotes in Enduring Love
The Enduring Love quotes below are all either spoken by Harry Gadd or refer to Harry Gadd. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes
Every fraction of a second that passed increased the drop, and the point must come when to let go would be impossible or fatal. And compared with me, Harry was safe, curled up in the basket. The balloon might well come down safely at the bottom of the hill. And perhaps my impulse to hang on was nothing more than a continuation of what I had been attempting moments before, simply a failure to adjust quickly.
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Joe describes in this passage his moment of decision as he hangs in the air, slowly losing his grip on one of the hot-air balloon’s ropes. He understands that he has a duty to be loyal to the group’s attempted rescue—a matter of simple human decency—but he knows, as well, that the men holding on to the balloon’s other ropes may themselves let go at any moment. Thus, Joe is hopelessly torn between altruism and self-preservation: he wants to be loyal, but he understands that loyalty may have too steep a cost. As somebody who analyzes even the smiles of Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui a
Chapter 3 Quotes
I said, “We tried to help and we failed.”
She smiled and shook her head. I went and stood by her chair and put my arms around her and protectively kissed the top of her head. With a sigh she pressed her face against my shirt and looped her arms around my waist. Her voice was muffled. “You’re such a dope. You’re so rational sometimes you’re like a child.”
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After leaving the scene of the ballooning accident and returning to their apartment, Joe and Clarissa discuss at length the events of the afternoon, attempting to comfort each other and to determine who is to blame for John Logan’s death. As a more intuitive character than Joe, Clarissa has another goal, as well: she wants to wring some meaning from what has happened, and she is playfully frustrated by Joe’s unwillingness to do so. For Clarissa, the truth of the accident cannot be as simple as Joe’s conclusion that they “tried to help and . . . failed.” To speak Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delect
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Harry Gadd Character Timeline in Enduring Love
The timeline below shows where the character Harry Gadd appears in Enduring Love. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...what the characters are running toward: a massive hot-air balloon in whose basket a boy, Harry Gadd, is trapped. Joe describes the balloon as a “furnace in whose heat identities and...
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...man attempts to tell the others what to do. Making matters worse, the endangered child, Harry Gadd, has ceased to respond to instructions and has instead entered “a state known as...
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...plans.” Joe explains that while he, Joseph Lacey, and Toby Greene are trying to pull Harry Gadd from the basket, James Gadd is trying to climb over them, and Jed Parry...
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Chapter 2
...next to Joe, and James Gadd is a few steps away, shouting about his grandson, Harry, who is still in the balloon’s basket. Clarissa has stepped toward Joe and put her...
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Chapter 3
...reader that the balloon eventually came down safely on its own and that the child, Harry Gadd, is unharmed. Neither Joe nor Clarissa wants to believe that John Logan “died for...
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