How we cite our quotes: Chapter.Paragraph
Quote #1
"It's not that," Becca said, trying to explain. "I mean, it's not that I believe it. Or even that she does. It's like the story is…like a metaphor…." (2.57)
Becca, who always understood Gemma best, understands that her grandmother is trying to communicate something important with her Briar Rose fixation. Helpful hint: the phrase "like a metaphor" will get you bonus points in English class.
Quote #2
Gemma's story never ended happily ever after except for the princess Briar Rose and her own little girl. There had always been something decidedly odd about the whole telling. Only now was Becca able to admit it. (6.17)
Have you ever had that experience where you realize that something you that you never thought to question when you were a kid was actually totally, totally weird? Well, that's what Becca's figuring out here.
Quote #3
"When Briar Rose was seventeen, one day and without further warning…a mist covered the entire kingdom.…And everyone in it—the good people and the not-so-good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell asleep." (7.14, 7.16, and 7.18)
By now you know that Gemma's story was an allegory for what happened to her during the war. "Translate" this passage.