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The Attack on Geraldine Coutts, The Round House by Louise Erdrich - Coggle…
The Attack on Geraldine Coutts
Smell of Gasoline
Joe:
"Gasoline, I said, I smelled it. Why did she smell like gas?"
(p.15)
Geraldine:
"He poured more gasoline over her and splashed gas on me, too, but not the baby"
(p.160)
Emotional Phone Call
Joe:
"There has been a call and the sound of her voice answering the call. And then she'd walk around, cleaning things, clattering dishes"
(p.79)
Potential Link to Suspect
Bazil:
"The matches were from the golf course"
(p.27)
Geraldine:
"Mayla asked to meet me at the round house. She had no car. She said her life depended on it, so I went there"
(p. 158)
Joe:
“I’ve seen him before, I said. Linden Lark. He bought gas at Whitey’s.”
(p. 210)
Possible Evidence Left Behind
Joe:
"Angus called out that he'd found two six-packs of beer, still cold in a plastic bag"
(p.86)
Geraldine:
"It was a pillowcase, a plain pink one"
(p. 160)
Joe:
“I knew it was Mayla’s car. From what Mom had said, I knew that her attacker had sent it to the bottom of the lake”
(p. 198)
Possible Motivation?
Joe:
He finds a doll in the lake that stuffed with money: "The doll’s head was stuffed with neatly rolled-up bills"
(p.135)
Geraldine: "I need that file she said. My life depends on that file, she said." (p. 160
Bazil:
“Is it Mayla’s baby? My father nodded.”
(p. 212)
Suspicious Consumer
Joe
and
friends:
They suspect Father Travis but learn of a condition he received on deployment. "I was at the U.S. Embassy in ’83 and got lucky. I’m here, right? The spigot works. I have to take extremely good care of it. Otherwise, infections.
(p.107)
Geraldine's Reclusiveness
Joe:
"the bedroom had taken on a fusty odor. The air was heavy with her breath, as if she’d sucked out the oxygen"
(p.86)
Spiritual Signs
Mooshum:
Joe asks Mooshum about the ghost that had visited himself and Randall. "Someone’s throwing their spirit at you. Somebody that you’ll see."
(p.132)
The Suspect
Bazil:
“Lark committed the crime”
(p. 197)
Joe:
“Unless they found Mayla dead, or she showed up alive and filed a kidnapping charge”
(p. 264)
Revenge
Joe:
"Linda never asked questions. She just watched me"
(p. 310)
Joe:
"We got rid of the clothes. We were quiet. We said nothing."
(p.307)
Joe:
"I pulled the trigger. He jerked back and his body folded"
(p.305)
Finale
Joe:
"I would always be the one who killed him"
(p.311)
Intense Emotions
Joe:
“I imagined myself killing him over and over.”
(p. 249)
Joe and Bazil:
“My father threw the cream, surged forward, and grabbed Lark by the shoulders.”
(p. 243)
Coming to Terms
Joe:
"We stayed away from the fact of Lark's existence"
(p.239)
The Round House by Louise Erdrich