| Quote #4 Rainsford had fought his way through the bush for two hours. "I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve," he said through tight teeth. (2.1) |
Rainsford has to keep his game face on here. Do you think he keeps it together?
| Quote #5 The general was playing with him! The general was saving him for another day's sport! The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror. (2.10) |
That general finds amusement in the strangest ways. It’s when Rainsford realizes that the general is actually enjoying torturing him that he faces his greatest fear.
| Quote #6 "I will not lose my nerve. I will not." (2.10) |
Rainsford has to give himself a little pep talk. Why does Connell have him speak out loud and not just think these things to himself? After all, we do have an omniscient narrator.