SUMMARY:
The Story of Lucy Gault was written by William Trevor. The story starts out in the middle of the scene where Captain Everard Gault was in a war. He shot a young boy and wounded him and Captain Gault felt guilty. He tried to ask for forgiveness from the boy's family. Father Morrissey suggested him to write a letter to the family and Captain Gault did ask he said. He waited for awhile for a reply but he didn't get a reply. His wife, Heloise feared that the boy's family would want revenge. She knew for sure that there wouldn't be a peaceful result. One day Captain Gault saw the boy and his family when the family offered him tea. At that point, Captain Gault thought he was being forgived but he wasn't. When Captain Gault tried to explain to the family of how he felt and why the event happened as it did, the family didn't feel the same way. Especially the boy, he sat there and didn't say a word to the Captain.
After the visit, Captain Gault admitted to his wife, saying that he thinks she is right. He tried his best in making peace and he tried to seek for forgiveness. By failing the attempt, he thought about what his wife, Heoise said, which was to move before any revenge is taken on them. That is when Lucy Gault, their daughter over heard them talking about moving out of Lahardane. Lucy grew up in Lahardane so she can't picture living anywhere else. Her parents explained to her how sometimes things needed to happen due to another event. In the beginning of the book, she loved her parents and would listen and do as they told. After hearing about the chance of moving, she starts to blame her parents. She ran off into the forest and went to the shore where she hurt herself.
QUOTE:
This was when Lucy first heard about the moving, "Listening in the hall, Lucy heard her mama suggest that maybe they should go, that maybe they had no choice"(Trevor 9).
REACTION:
The quote above was when Lucy stood outside her parents room and over heard the conversation about moving away from Lahardane to England. At first Lucy didn't understand what they were talking about but after when she listen to the conversation more, she understood. Lucy felt really upset which is also the point where she started changing physically and mentally. She blamed her parents for the choice of moving out to England, her mom's hometown. Also she injured herself, breaking her leg because she ran off by herself in the forest/shore. This is starting to change Lucy's life as she thought about staying in Lahardane forever until now.
I notice that the author used many figure of speeches and just different ways to express a basic sentence. For example when the author described a man, "Paddy Lindon used to come out of the woods like a wild man, his eye's bloodshot, hair that had never known a comb"(Trevor 10). William Trevor didn't just say, Paddy Lindon's hair was a mess, instead he said that his hair never known a comb.
Also in this book, the quotations for the characters when they speak, the author didn't use "...................................." instead he used '...........................'. Why is that?
