How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
The freaks exhaled.
The old old man sighed.
Yes, Will thought, they're breathing for him, helping him, making him to live.
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale – yet it looked like an act. What could he say, or do? (24.106-24.109)
This scene reinforces the difficulty faced by the boys when it comes to the carnival. The carnival is meant to show crazy, supernatural things because it's all an act. Yet Will has witnessed events that were definitely not carnival acts, such as Mr. Cooger growing younger.
Quote #5
They knew that she was blind, but special blind. She could dip down her hands to feel the bumps of the world, touch house roofs, probe attic bins, reap dust, examine draughts that blew through halls and souls that blew through people, draughts vented from bellows to thump-wrist, to pound-temples, to pulse-throat, and back to bellows again. Just as they felt that balloon sift down like an autumn rain, so she could feel their souls disinhabit, reinhabit their tremulous nostrils. Each soul, a vast warm fingerprint, felt different, she could roil it in her hand like clay; smelled different, Will could hear her snuffing his life away; tasted different, she savored them with her raw-gummed mouth, her puff-adder tongue; sounded different, she stuffed their souls in one ear, tissued them out the other! (29.29)
This is definitely not natural. Given this description of the Witch's abilities, how might laughter or some other type of emotional response destroy her power?
Quote #6
For the Dwarf was looking down.
And in his eyes were the lost bits and fitful pieces of a man named Fury who had sold lightning rods how many days how many years ago in the long, the easy, the safe and wondrous time before this fright was born. (35.24-35.25)
Poor Tom Fury. This is a concrete observation about a real supernatural transformation in the novel. Think about where the narration is coming from at moments like these.