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DEATH
“If we are spared today, we may well be felled by the plague on the morrow”
“Small will to live” “Two thirds of those faces were gone-buried”
“Before you have mourned one person that you love, another is ill in your arms”
“The grieving and the guilty” “My tom died as babies do”“Why was I not one of the many in the chamber of death”
FAITH/RELIGION
“Puritan in her ways” “Grievous self -punishment” “God will find you”“ At that time…we all of us believed that God listened to such prayers.”
“…Jamie suffered for five days before God saw fit to take him”
LOSS OF FAITH
“Simply a thing of nature” “ Untrue in one thing, untrue in everything”
“…and now it seems there is no God, and I was wrong.”
“I can not say that I have faith anymore”
HOPE
“away from death and towards life” “precious little girl”
“living my life amongst wonders” “in that season of death, we celebrated life”
“I will raise her with love”
PLAGUE
“plague tokens” “venom in the blood” “Plague seeds”
“wealth and connection are no shield against Plague” “wide green prison”
“the plague will make heroes of us all whether we will or no”“Burn it, Burn it all” “A woman from the plague village, Beware!”
“The plague does not distinguish between man and woman”
BROOKS
FORESHADOWING
“Playing with these loathsome pests as if they were poppets”-
“the fleas feasted on my tender children”- death of the children
“She looks like a bride” “but funerals too have flowers, and winding sheets are
white” – Forewarning Elinor’s deathFire-“resembled the voids in a skull”- Faiths skull- catalyst for Elinor’s death
FEAR
“nowhere else to go” “ fear will be your only companion”
“I fear the line between myself and madness”
“I know it is unseemly to fear death, but I do fear it”“we were all of us like wounded animals”
“We fear this disease and the death it brings”“the fear that the gentle weather would yield to an increase in disease”
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ANNA FRITH
“Loved to learn” “hunger to learn” “thirst for knowledge”
“from birth to birth” “widow at eighteen” “timid girl”
“I am loathe to judge others” “timid girl” “cowardice shamed her”
“ a woman who had faced more terrors than many warriors”
“for I was not Elinor after all, but Anna “
MICHAEL MOMPELLION
“light and dark” “intoxicated” “cadenced as a poem”“and so he launched into the sermon which sealed our fates”
“My whole life has been based on a lie” “drawn and haggard”
“while I am spared no one in this village will face their death alone”
“I never lay with Elinor” “so pinched and exhausted”
ELINOR
“gentle voice” “counseled the troubled and visited the sick”“a sinewy mind, capable of violent enthusiasms”“driving energy to make and do” “she was my friend and I loved her”
“for as I loved to learn, so she loved to teach”
ANYS
“Quick of mind” “Swift of tongue” “I’m not made to be any man’s chattel”
“She was a rare creature” “mutterings of a priest”
“It takes a kind of courage to case so little for what people whisper”
“Consorting with the devil spawn who brought the plague here”
APHRA
“Shrewd woman” “superstitious fantasies”“Harbored a wealth of superstitions”
“an instant’s work, to take two lives and leave another ruined”
JOSIAH
“ too ill or weak to bury their dead” “High fee” “thieving price”
“Sour and menacing creature” “committed an act so vile”
“he loved a pot better than he love his children”“sting of his fist and the stink of his breath”
SYMBOLISM
Death- “Apple picking time” “Scent of rotting apple” “rotten fruit”Death toll- “There were so few people to do the picking”
Fire- symbolic of rebirth – “A great burning”
DARK AND LIGHT
“That was how I had been taught to view the world”
“Godly and right, or satanic and evil”
“Light and dark”
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