Hold me fast, don't let me pass Alice Munro 
Plot: Hazel is a middle-aged woman who has travelled to Scotland with a mission.
She wants to find out more about Jack's past
and she wants to see for herself the people Jack talked about and maybe they will tell her about him.
She hopes they satisfy some unanswered questions she has
She wants to know why she is there:
She thinks she is there to pay a visit to Margareth Dobie and she wants to find Antoinette.
She is going to find out:
It was the war that killed Jack and not really his desire for Antoinette, not the homeland and not the fact Hazel has lost her beauty.
If you survive a war, nothing can match the intensity of a war, What is life after war??
Sequence: Chronological with flashbacks
Climax:
Hazel realises that the thing that happened to Jack in WOII, wasn’t Antoinette, wasn’t his second cousin Margaret, WOII happened to Jack, with all its grandeur and all its brotherhood, all its adventures and all its intensity.
And ultimately, what happened to Jack was the immensity of war: its death, confusion and mystery.
• It was the war that killed him, not really his desire for Antoinette, not the homeland and not the fact that Hazel had lost her beauty.
• If you survive a war, nothing can match the intensity of a war, What is life after war?
,• If you survive a war, nothing can match the intensity of a war, What is life after war?
Conflict: Individual vs individual
Point of view:
Third person narrative
Figurative language
Metaphor: poem
Metaphor: weather
Repetition poems
Themes
Relationships
Lies
Isolation
Mental breakdown
Style & Structure:
• Middle-aged woman looking back at her past and the past of her late husband
• Framing structure
• Memories
• Reader left to make own conclusions
• Ambiguity
• Changing focus
Setting:
• Selkirk, the Scottish town she’s visiting
• Boat from Canada to Scotland
• Time: ?
Symbols & Motifs:
Characterisation:
Hazel Curtis: ROUND:
In her fifties, widow with three grown children, biology teacher
Jack Curtis: FLAT;
deceased husband Hazel, A handsome bomber pilot in WOII,
Had three women who loved him; Hazel, Antoinette and Margaret Dobie
Antoinette: ROUND;
Blond bundle, daughter of the proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Love affair with Jack during WOII, denies she’d ever met Jack, Loves Dudly, jealous with Judy
Margaret Dobie: ROUND;
Relative of Jack, whom which he stayed with when he was on leave, denies she ever knew Jack
Dudly:FLAT;
Attractive Scottis man, Also has secrets, He is assigned the role, by Antoinette and Munro, to entertain Hazel and draw her out, Hazel is also an object of his interest, relationship with Antoinette and also with Judy
Judy: FLAT:
Margareth Doby’s housekeeper, single mum, Relation with Dudly
Change of perspective, Stories, Alcohol, hair