![]() ![]() Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. ![]() Read Chapter 56 again (below.) What strikes you as syntactically significant? Respond by copying and pasting two quotations from the text and by commenting in at least 100 words for EACH quotation. It turned-turned-turned full round-till he was looking straight at me.Ģ. He looked beyond the gunnel at the open seas. The rolling of the boat, though gentle, was visibly not to his liking. He placed his forepaws on the stern bench and lifted himself. He raised his head high and smelled the air. He was panting, his tongue hanging from his mouth. But a quiet growl, private and half-hearted, it seemed. There was a noise of organic crunching as windpipe and spinal cord were crushed. Richard Parker’s jaws closed on the side of the hyena’s neck. Instead it shrank to the floor, lifting a forepaw in a futile gesture of defence. The hyena was leaning against the stern bench, behind the zebra’s carcass, transfixed. The flame-coloured carnivore emerged from beneath the tarpaulin and made for the hyena. The hyena died neither whining nor whimpering, and Richard Parker killed without a sound. My brief experience with the relations of unconfined wildĪnimals in lifeboats had made me expect great noise and protest when the time came for bloodshed. I stood rooted to the spot,paralyzed, in thrall to the action before my eyes. Oh, the size of him! The hyena’s end had come, and mine. I saw a sight that will stay with me for the rest of my days. What’s lost and what’s gained by the adaption from novel to film? Watch the scene above and then read the excerpt below detailing the death of the hyena. ![]()
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