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Hold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pass - Coggle Diagram
Hold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pass
Plot
Chronological
The narrator tells the story of Hazel's trip to Scotland to find out more about her husband Jack's past.
The narrator does not hop back and forth between time frames, but instead refers to events from the past, while staying in the same time frame.
Conflicts
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Hazel vs. Margaret
Margaret Dobie doesn't fit the expectations either, even denies ever having known Jack.
Style & Structure
Room for interpretation
Writer lets us decide, what caused the death of Jack? was it the war? or was it everything else in his life?
Focus changes halfway
The focus changes from Hazel wanting to know more about her husband in a positive way to learning about her own life and thoughts and learning about what made her husband feel so miserable.
Setting
Time
1980s
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"Hazel was fifteen when the war ended" tells us that it should be approximately 35 years or over later than 1945.
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Figurative Language
"Whiskey'll do it"
The Canadian Hazel orders 'Scotch', which sounds odd for the Scottish Dudley
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Themes
War
And the impact it has on everybody involved, actively or indirectly.
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Trust
who can you trust? Is something every really true, or is there always another side to a story?
Reader's response
I could really relate to the fact that war isn't something that wears off of people after a while. It sticks with you and makes you the person you are today. As a soldier myself I have many colleagues who have experienced this and still experience this today, and I actually feel that people who have never felt or seen the impact of a war on a person often downscale the effect it can actually have.