How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
No one went hungry and that's a blessing to everybody. I am sure every table in our corner of Wisconsin held a pigeon pie (pigeons cooked in a broth, walnut catsup added, covered with a crust, and then baked twenty minutes). In addition, all those who kept their minds on working could make some money. (7.57)
This makes us want to try some pigeon pie. We're out of luck, though, because these particular pigeons are extinct. Probably because people ate too many pigeon pies.
Quote #8
I froze. My body did, anyway.
My mind, on the other hand, jumped over the moon and ran off with the spoon. It listed what it saw by every possible name. It thought the list forward: Catamount, cougar, American lion, painter, red tiger. It thought it backward: Red tiger, painter, American lion, cougar, catamount. My mind pinched the list in the middle, folded it over, and thought it again: Painter, cougar, catamount, red tiger, American lion. (9.1-2)
This is where the hunter becomes the hunted. Do you think Georgie's experience with the cougar contributes to her eventual decision to stop hunting? What evidence does the text provide for or against your position?
Quote #9
Agatha had not come home, so I told the air, the sky, the horizon (and, I suppose, Long Ears) what Agatha looked like when, parasol in hand, she spun under the pigeons: spring set free, a dance of heaven and earth, mankind and creation enjoying each other's company. (22.8)
Agatha spinning under those pigeons is probably the most powerful image in the novel. The central story is about Georgie's search for her sister, so why do you think the author places so much emphasis on Agatha's interest in pigeons? (Cough, "Symbols" section, cough.)