The Cone Gatherers Key Quotes

‘The Cone Gatherers’ – Key Quotes

This is NOT an exhaustive list of quotes for this novel - there are LOADS. However it does provide a starting point and quote a few of them are suitable for more than one type of question.

Quote Good For “It was a good tree by the sea loch, with Key character many cones and much sunshine; it was Nature Q homely too, with rests among its topmost Good V’s Evil branches as comfortable as chairs.” Conflict/confrontation Setting Re Calum - “For Calum the tree-top was Key character interest enough; in it he was as Nature Q indigenous as squirrel or bird. Good V’s Evil Conflict/confrontation Setting Re Calum - “His face was chuckling to Conflict/confrontation them and his sunburnt face was alert and Key Character beautiful with trust” p1 Good V’s Evil

Neil - “We’re human beings just like Conflict/confrontation them. We need space to live and breathe Class Structure in.”p3 “Calum shivered: he knew and feared Conflict/confrontation death” p4 Key Character “Calum, demoralised as always by Conflict/confrontation hatred, had cowered against the hut, Key Character hiding his face.” P 5 “Calum represented, pity so meek as to Conflict/confrontation be paralysed by the suffering that Key Character provoked it, ought to be regretted but never despised.” P7 “in an icy sweat of hatred, with his gun Lots! aimed all the time at the feeble minded Key character hunchback grovelling over the rabbit. To Symbolism pull the trigger, requiring far less force Conflict/confrontation than to break the rabbit’s neck, and then (BREAK THIS QUOTE DOWN IF to hear simultaneously the clean report of USING) the gun and the last obscene squeal of the killed dwarf would have been for him, he thought, release too, from the noose of disgust and despair drawn, these past few days, so much tighter.” P 9

“He could have named, item by item, leaf Symbolism and fruit and branch, the overspreading Good V’s Evil tree of revulsion in him; but he could not Key Character tell the force which made it grow.” P 9

“Since childhood Duror had been Key Character repelled by anything living that had an imperfection or deformity or lack: a cat with three legs had roused pity in other, in him an ungovernable disgust.” P 10/11 “what Duror heard was a roaring within Symbolism him, as if that tree of hatred and revulsion Key Character was being tossed by a gale.” P 11 Good V’s Evil “those two sub-humans” p13 Good V’s Evil

“To look after his brother, he had never Responsibility got married, though once he had come very near it: that memory often revived to turn his heart melancholy.” P 4 “without seeing them…had issued an Responsibility order…that they were to be treated with Class structure sympathy” p 10 (LRC) “in a hut as small as a rabbit hutch” Responsibility Class structure “Do you really, he thought, see this tree Symbolism growing and spreading in my mind? And Key Character its fruit madness?” Good V’s Evil “It astonished Duror that she, so Good V’s Evil genuinely good, should be helping him in Key character his evil plan.”P49 “they seemed to be plucking nuts of Setting sunshine” P52 Good V’s Evil Confrontation/conflict “The constant sight of the mansion house Class structure chimneys, reminding him of their hut, which to him remained a symbol of humiliation.” P52 “he still whimpered and cowered…” P55 Good V’s Evil (Calum as Duror comes to tree) “Maybe he’ll shoot at us” P56 Presentiment/Foreshadowing Good V’s Evil “He was like a tree, still showing green Symbolism leaves; but underground death was Key Character creeping along the roots.” P59 Good V’s Evil “Calum no longer was one of the beaters; Key scene he too was a dear hunted by remorseless Conflict/confrontation men. Moaning and gasping, he fled after Key character them, with no hope of saving them from slaughter.” P69 “Screaming in sympathy, heedless of the Key scene danger of being shot, Calum flung Conflict/confrontation himself upon the deer, clasped it round Key character the neck, and tried to comfort it.” P70 Good V’s Evil “rushing upon the stricken deer and the Key scene frantic hunchback, he threw the latter off Conflict/confrontation with furious force, and then, seizing the Key character/development former’s head with one hand cut its throat Good V’s Evil savagely with the other. Blood spouted.” P70

“…there by the dead deer he Conflict/confrontation understood…why he hated the hunchback Key character/development so profoundly and yet was so fascinated Good V’s Evil by him. For many years his life had been stunted, mishappen, obscene, and hideous; and this misbegotten creature was its personification. P73 “But the hunchback in some dreadful way Conflict/confrontation had become necessary to him…His going Key character/development therefore had to become a destruction, an Good V’s Evil agony, a crucifixion.” P78 Symbolism “We didn’t treat them fairly” P85 Class Structure Conflict/confrontation (Roderick/LRC) “this is no time for playing Sir Galahad” Class Structure P 93 Conflict/confrontation (Roderick/LRC) “Human beings are more important than Class Structure dogs” P 93 Conflict/confrontation (Roderick/LRC) “You see, I know that the little one is an Class Structure evil person” P 94 (LRC repeating D lies) Conflict/confrontation (Roderick/LRC) “The result was a revulsion against the Key Character Dr’s reiterated philosophy of Good V’s Evil endurance…he felt in a mood for murder, conflict rape, or suicide’ P104 “the most evil presence of all” Good V’s Evil

“Duror was a barrier he could not pass” P118 “Roderick knew that the struggle between Key Character/development good and evil never rested: in the world, Good V’s Evil and in every human being, it went on. The war was an enormous example. Good did not always win.” P119 “Black cloud were now overhead. Setting Thunder snarled. Colour faded from the Symbolism (pathetic fallacy) wood.” “Haven’t we got the right to keep Class structure ourselves alive? Is the Lady like the rain, and the thunder and lightning…” “What is the meaning of this?” her voice Class structure was “far more appalling to the two men Conflict/confrontation (LRC/Roderick) than any thunder.” P129 “A lifetime of frightened submissiveness Class structure held it down.” P129 “this sinister transformation in Duror, Symbolism itself an episode from a macabre fairy Good V’s Evil tale, suddenly in the wood the straight Key character development stalwart immaculate ash tree turning into a squat warty bush swarming with worms. P 146 “…the gamekeeper was unkempt, with Key character development the neck of his shirt grubby. His tie askew with the knot low, as if, choking, he had wrenched it loose.” P156 “Duror and Calum were human; and at Good V’s Evil that very moment, in different parts of the Conflict/confrontation (wider context) earth, men were blowing one another to pieces without personal bias or hatred.” P160 “We could have perished in the storm for Class all she cared. Was that not murder? P173 “His arms were loose and dangled in Symbolism macabre gestures of supplication. Though Good V’s Evil he smiled, he was dead.” P180 Key character “From his bag dropped a cone, and then Symbolism another…other drops, also singly, but Good V’s Evil faster, distracted her: these were of blood” P180/181 “she knew that somewhere, on her Setting beloved promontory, Duror, with his face Good V’s Evil shattered and bloody, lay dead.” P181 Character development (LRC) Class “as she wept pity, and purified hope, and Good V’s Evil joy, welled up in my heart.” P181 Character development (LRC) Class