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OPENING ONE THOUSAND HILLS - Coggle Diagram
OPENING ONE THOUSAND HILLS
Pascal provides an overview of all future events
Third person narration reveals characters' thoughts.
"There's the radio with its message that chilled the boy to the bone." (6)
Religion is important. The church is a prominent fixture. Seen by all.
It is another symbol described as a safe place. The bell signals both a beginning and the end.
"The beginning of it all and, in a way, the end of it all." (6)
The church "perched like heaven itself on top of the mist that lay heavy over the town." (10)
Pascal and Henri hide in the disused rusty water tank away from Mrs Turatsnze.
It establishes an important setting, one which Pascal will return to during the genocide to take cover from the Jolts. On both occasions it successfully "hides" them.
It was a tight squeeze for a small boy. No way a normal-sized adult could fit through there. (24)
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Jean-Baptiste takes over Nadine's game. Chasing Game vs People Game.
JB doesn't often do as he's told.
It foreshadows Pascal and Nadine's traumatic visions of dead people who'd been discovered hiding in the leaves. In reality both games play out - a combination of both plays out.
Nadine explains the People Game: "These are big leaves. And that's where they live. They live under the big leaves. " (28)
Upon hearing about the Chasing Game, Moises says "Killing isn't a game...neither is running for your life." (29)
"...between the bread fruit trees and vines, there were more splashes of colour...taken over by a dark, rust red." (201)
Pascal says of the dead, hidden bodies: "They're on our side...we have to let them keep on hiding." (201)
It appears to be typical brother/sister interaction.
Father discusses his carvings which are popular with the tourists
It is a symbol of tolerance. It discusses what the carvings are like on the outside and celebrates differences. Later M&Ms are a symbol of tolerance revealing that on the inside we are the same.
He tells Pascal [re his siblings] "you're not exactly the same as them are you?" (20). He goes on re tourist reaction to his carvings "I love how they're so different" (21)
Of M&Ms: "so many delicious colours" (105) Eating diff ones, they ask: "Different? Better? The same? Hard to know," (105)
"They're all the same flavour." (106)