How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Eye fainted again when they went up in the elevator. Arm felt queasy from his friend's fear. He and Ear dragged their comrade to a couch outside the Starlight Room. Down the hall they saw an immense, nail-studded door and five villainous-looking guards with weapons. (35.32)
Fear of heights is pretty common, but that doesn't make it any less scary. Eye can see every specific detail, so being way up high is terrifying for him. His fear is actually disabling. He can't function because he's too scared to look around while in the glass elevator. And you thought you were afraid of heights…
Quote #8
The men were brutish, but the spirits that flitted about them were far worse. They were bloated with cruel animal sacrifices. Rage and cringing fear had created these monsters. All the noble aspects of the sacrificial animals had gone, with their deaths, into Mwari's country. Only the evil was left, like a twisted natural force. (37.27)
Okay, we're officially afraid. We hate the idea of rage and fear somehow creating a monster—it seems incredibly threatening. The way the Mask spirits are described fills us with panic, as though we are there in the room, experiencing them just like Tendai is. Eek.
Quote #9
Before he could despair at this turn of events, something happened inside his chest. The heat spread out from the ndoro a hundred, a thousand times stronger than before. The strength of it frightened him, but it was a clean fear such as one might have before a magnificent force of nature—a volcano, for example. (39.5)
There are different types of fear in the novel. There's the kind that leaves you running for the door (like the detectives at Resthaven) or shutting down (like Eye on the glass elevator). Then there's a more intellectual kind that frightens you when you think about it. That's the kind that Tendai goes through here. He's not panicking, but when he thinks about how powerful the spirits are, he feels a mix of awe, wonder, and fear.