Jamaica Inn Answer Key - Sukey Tawdry's Kettle Hole
Jamaica Inn Answer Key
(...) Cornwall, with its bleak, treacherous coastline and wild weather was for much of its history a law unto itself. Jamaica Inn may now be a tourist trap reduced to kitsch(1) by the publicity of minor(2) literary fame, but when du Maurier would have first seen it, in the 1920s, it would no(3) doubt have been a more(4) desolate place which, with the right imagination, could easily be transformed into Robert Louis Stevenson territory and the heart of a smuggling(5) ring that not only hides(6) the booty but runs a gang of wreckers who lure the ships onto the rocks(7) to drown their crew and steal their cargo. (...) Once you(8) get past the second chapter(9) it’s almost impossible to read Jamaica Inn slowly. It is the burden of thriller writers to have the reader tell them(10) admiringly how fast they read your books. ‘I couldn’t put(11) it down’ is both the greatest compliment and the cruelest(12) cut of all, since it almost certainly means that a reader’s greed to get to the end of the book(13) will have made them careless(14) with some of the best(15) writing on the way. (...) There is virtually no spare action(16) here. It would be invidious to give away the last(17) twist, and while there will be those who see it coming, foresight doesn’t rob it of its elegant baroque menace(18), with more than a touch(19) of the Hannibal Lecter/Clarice Starling relationship(20) thrown into the dark mix. Mary Yellan sups with many devils in this book and by the end there is not even a long spoon between them.
|1.KITSCH |5.SMUGGLING |9.CHAPTER |13.BOOK |17.LAST |
|2.MINOR |6.HIDES |10.THEM |14.CARELESS |18.MENACE |
|3.NO |7.ROCKS |11.PUT |15.BEST |19.TOUCH |
|4.MORE |8.YOU |12.CRUELEST |16.ACTION |20.RELATIONSHIP |
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