How does fire play a key role in Jeannette's life and how does it positively and or negatively have an influence on her life?
by ryan maslow
1. "I felt a blaze of heat on my right side" page 9
1.1. This is a large fire because it changes her life drastically. After this incident she becomes obsessed with fire. She also gains strong views on fire and It also seriously harms her.
2. "Brian and I were knocked to our feet. When we stood up, one of the walls was on fire." page 61
2.1. "One night a few days later, I suddenly woke up. The air was hot and stifling" page 33
3. "I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the kind of knowledge that kept you on your toes" page 34
4. "I lit a match and held it close to Tinkerbell's face" page 16
5. "He studied the sculpture, then suddenly reached and smeared off Shakespeare's mouth with his thumb" page 226
6. I was on fire. It's my earliest memory" page 9
7. "I lit pieces of paper" page 15
8. "I lit a match and held it close to Tinkerbell's face" page 16
9. Not all of the fire where the same.
9.1. Not all of the fires in Jeannette"s life are large and they do not all play a big role in the novel.
10. How Jeannette controls fire versus loses control.
10.1. Jeannette struggles to control fire. Out of all of the times she controls a fire only one of those times she is truly able to maintain control of it.
10.2. When Jeannette is young she is not able to control fire and this causes her to be very cautious about what she does because she fears a fire she can not control.
11. Fire symbolizes her childhood and disappointments.
11.1. Fire was always present in her childhood along with disappointments brought by her father. When she is no longer a child these problems begin to disappear along with her fire encounters.
11.1.1. This is one of the many times where something positive happens and her father lets them all down.
11.1.2. Many of her childhood memories have to do with fires and she remembers them all very well.
12. http://fc.gsacrd.ab.ca/~jennifer_willows/FOV2-0007255C/FOV2-000768CD/S022D06EA-022D06EA.0/Metaphors:Symbols:Themes.pdf
13. "One night a few days later, I suddenly woke up. The air was hot and stifling" page 33
14. "Let's really light up this christmas" page 115
15. These fires would not have happened if her father hid his matches or tell them not to touch them and did not put her in a vulnerable to a fire.
16. "Brian and I were knocked to our feet. When we stood up, one of the walls was on fire." page 61
17. "Let's really light up Christmas" page 115
18. "but when Dad set their room on fire by falling asleep with a burning cigarette" page 253
19. "One night a few days later, I suddenly woke up. The air was hot and stifling" page 33
20. "I was always on the lookout for bigger fires.Whenever neighbors burned trash, I ran over and watched the blaze trying to escape the garbage can." page 15
21. "he showed me how to pass my finger through a candle flame. I did it over and over, slowing my finger with each pass, watching the way is seemed to cut the flame in half" page 15
22. "i'd inch closer and closer, feeling the heat against my face until i got so near that it became unbearable" page 15
23. How are Jeannette's fire incidents connected to other people in her life.
23.1. Most of the fires in the novel are created by Jeannette and affect her but, she could only create them because of what her father does.
23.2. Jeannette's father his at fault for a couple of fires and both of them do not affect him.
24. Jeannette is obsessed with fire.
24.1. Jeannette is amazed by all of the properties of fire which causes her to be obsessed with it.
24.1.1. She loves how it looks
24.1.2. She loves how it acts
24.1.3. She loves the heat it gives off