Quotations:
1. Importance of Place
"Our village never seemed to me to be like that. It was more varied in what it offered to the observer than people from bigger and more sophisticated places generally think, and if it had sins and follies and roughness, it also had much to show of virtue, dignity, and even of nobility." (P 9)
2.Relationship Between Two Characters
"I am able to date the occasion with complete certainity because that afternoon I had been sledding with my lifeling friend and enemy Percy Boyd Staunton, and we had quarrelled, because his fine new Christmas sled would not go as far as my old one." (P 1)
3. Metaphor
"She hovered over the baby, and as he changed from a raw monster to a small but recognizably Christian-looking infant she was as delight as a little girl with a doll. (P 20)
4. Quote of The Novel
“A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtues, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also schemer, self-seeker, traitors, Judas, crook, and villain – in short, a man.” (P 8)
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