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Sylvia Lee - "Wait" (Negative (Other (Cultural (Loss of…
Sylvia Lee - "Wait"
Negative
Other
Cultural
There was very little for a young girl to do in Ayemenem other than to WAIT for marriage proposals while she helped her mother with the housework
The teacher's husband still WAITING for his Saudi visa. The teacher's husband's sisters WAITING for their dowries
Loss of tradition
But if he had a fleet of makeup men WAITING in the wings, a contract, a percentage of the profits - what then would he be?
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Death
That was Rahel being Sydney Carton being Charles Darnay, as he stood on the steps, WAITING to be guillotined, in the Classics Illustrated comic's version of A Tale of Two Cities
Ignorance
Perhaps he was a little too young to know that the Atmosphere in the WAITING Room, plus Screams from Behind the Curtain, ought to logically add up to a Healthy Fear of Dr. V.V.
Natural World
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The Antly Church would be empty and the Antly Bishop would WAIT in his funny Antly Bishop clothes, swinging Frankincense in a silver pot. And nobody would arrive
After he had WAITED for a reasonably Antly amount of time, he would get a funny Antly Bishop frown on his forehead, and shake his head sadly
There was a diagonal slash across the mottled bark of each tree through which milky rubber seeped like white blood from a wound, and dripped into the WAITING half of a coconut shell that had been tied to the tree
Dreams
Foreshadowing
Unclouded by passion or desire - that pair of dogs that sleep so soundly inside children, WAITING for them to grow up
Foreshadowing
Empty, WAITING for the lovers to return. For hours it WAITED.
Ammu
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Dread
Dreaming
It was a smile that gave no indication that the person who belonged to it was a bomb WAITING to go off
Rahel
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Boredom
Somehow, not wholly unaware of the hint of doom and all that WAITED in the wings for them
When they grew tired of WAITING, the dinner smells climbed over the curtains and drifted through the Sea Queen windows to dance the night away on the dinner-smelling sea
Death
That's how long Chacko and Rahel had to WAIT for the pink receipt that would entitle them to collect Ammu's remains
Dealing with Rejection
Comrade Estha would find the flag (that Baby Kochamma had been forced to wave), and WAIT for her by the river, and there they would: (b) Prepare to prepare to be prepared
Family matters
She sensed her children's faces hanging over her dream, worried moons, WAITING to be let in
Fear
A pair of damp dwarfs, numb with fear, WAITING for the world to end
Kochu Maria
Malicious
Kochu Maria was sure that Et tu was an obscenity in English an was WAITING for a suitable opportunity to complain about Estha to Mammachi
She bided her time, WAITING for a suitable opportunity to complain about him
"What did you say?" Kochu Maria said threateningly. "Don't tell me, I know, I heard, I'll tell Mammachi. Just WAIT!"
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Orangedrink/Lemondrink
Malicious
Foreshadowing
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In the lobby, the orangedrinks were WAITING
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The man behind the Refreshments Center, who'd been asleep on a row of stools, WAITING for the interval, woke up
The MAN wiped his marble counter with a dirt colored rag. And he WAITED. And WAITING he wiped. And wiping he WAITED. And watched Estha sing
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Comrade Pilai
Opportunistic
Foreshadowing
Comrade Pillai stepped carefully around this wrinkle, WAITING fof a suitable opportunity to iron it out
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Estha
Boredom
Somehow, now wholly unaware of the hint of doom and all that WAITED in the wings for them
When they grew tired of WAITING, the dinner smells climbed over the curtains and drifted through the Sea Queen windows to dance the night away on the dinner-smelling sea
Dealing with Rejection
Comrade Estha would find the flag (that Baby Kochamma had been forced to wave), and WAIT for her by the river, and there they would: (b) Prepare to prepare to be prepared
Family Matters
She sensed her children's faces hanging over her dream, worried moons, WAITING to be let in
Fear
A pair of damp dwarfs, numb with fear, WAITING for the world to end
Waiting for Punishment
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He sat very straight, WAITING for the Inspection. He had finished the ironing
Estha, sitting very straight, WAITING to be arrested, takes his fingers to it
Vellya Paapen
Anxiety
Nor did he know that Vellya Paapen had been sitting for hours at the door of their hut, still drunk, his glass eye and the edge of his ax glittering int he lamplight, WAITING for Velutha to return
Baby Kochamma
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Uneasiness
Baby Kochamma settled back on her pillow and WAITED to hear Rahel come out of Estha's room. They had begun to make her uneasy, both of them
Inspector
He WAITED for Baby Kochamma to look at him. "Or I must charge you with lodging a false F.I.R. Criminal
Positive
Rahel
Body
Rahel's new teeth were WAITING inside her gums, like words in a pen
Anticipation
They would sit with him for hours, on their haunches-hunched punctuation marks in a pool of wood shavings and wonder how he always seemed to know what smooth shapes WAITED inside the wood for him
Estha
Anticipation
They would sit with him for hours, on their haunches-hunched punctuation marks in a pool of wood shavings and wonder how he always seemed to know what smooth shapes WAITED inside the wood for him
Lonliness
Estha WAITED in the dirty marble lobby with the lonely, watching mirrors till the red door took his sister away
Other
The train was gone so quickly that it was hard to imagine that everybody had WAITED so long for so little
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Ammu
Anticipation
As though she knew he would be there, WAITING. As though he knew she would come
Neutral
Other
From behind the line of WAITING, oncoming traffic, a column of men appeared, with red flags and banners and a hum that grew and grew
But when the man that manned the crossing came out of his booth, on this backwards-bending legs and signaled with his limp, flapping walk to the tea stall that they were in for a long WAIT, drivers switched off their engines and milled about, stretching their legs
A pile of folded, crumpled clothes WAITED to be ironed
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A rat with bristly shoulders made several busy journeys between the doctor's room and the bottom of the cupboard in the WAITING room
Natural World
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Anticipation
That afternoon - while in the bathoroom the fates conspired to horribly alter the course of their mysterious mother's road, while inVelutha's backyard an old boat waited for them, while in a yellow church a young bat WAITED
to be born - in their mother's bedroom, Estha stood on his head on Rahel's bum
That afternoon - while in the bathoroom the fates conspired to horribly alter the course of their mysterious mother's road, while inVelutha's backyard an old boat WAITED for them, while in a yellow church a young bat waited to be born - in their mother's bedroom, Estha stood on his head on Rahel's bum
Meanwhile, another customer (a regular) had arrived unnoticed, and WAITED to be served
Cultural
Caste system
He had a Touchable wife, two Touchable daughters - whole Touchable generations WAITING in their Touchable wombs...
"Comrades have presented Memorandum to Party High Command. Now let us see. We have only to WAIT and watch"
Baby Kochamma
Anticipation
She looked at Estha and Rahel, WAITING for them to say "Coo-coo." They didn't.
Ammu
("Tell her she'll need a cesarean!" a drunk gynecologist had said to her husband while they WAITED for their change at the gas station.)
She WAITED, under the skin of her dream, not wanting to let her children in
Estha
Outside, he WAITED for his mother, his sister and his baby grandaunt
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Estha WAITED until Rahel got in, then took his place, siting astride the little boat as though it were a seesaw
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Mammachi
As she spoke, the WAITING Melody that hung over her like a shimmering temple elephant's umbrella crumbled and gently fell about like dust
Margaret
Family Matters
He came and went in a trance, yearning from the moment he arrived to return to the long-backed white girl who WAITED for him
Comrade Pillai
Self-centered
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The more people that were seen WAITING to meet him, the busier he would appear, the better the impression he would make
And if the WAITING people say that the factory Modalali himself had come to see him, on his turf, he knew it would give off all sorts of useful signals