Journey+-+Important+Quotes

Here are the notes we created in class. There are some good comments about theme at the end of them. These notes are arranged in sections about character, change, theme and what this story is about. “They think he’s deaf. And old. Putting more money in his pocket and wishing his coat needed buttoning.” P140 “coming up the steps on to the platform he could feel the quick huffs of his breathing and that annoyed him, he wanted to swipe at the huffs with this hand.” P142 “Good idea coming on his own, he didn’t want anyone fussing round looking after his ticket, seeing if he’s warm and saying things twice.” P142 ”...and by Jove he’s got a few things to say to those people and he wasn’t forgetting. He’d tell them, yes.” P146 “Pigeons, he didn’t like pigeons, they’d learned to behave like people, eat your feet off if you give them half a chance.” P146 “-there are my brother’s children, my sister’s children and me. It doesn’t matter about me because I’m on the way out, but before I go I want it all done.” P147 “Sir. Kept calling him sir, and the way he said is didn’t sound so well, but it was difficult to be sure at first.” P147 “But where was the sense in that, there was no equal land. If it’s your stamping ground and you have your ties there, then there’s no land equal, surely that wasn’t hard to understand.” P149 “On further, it’s the same – houses, houses – but people have to have houses. Two or three farms once, on the cold hills...” “Funny people putting their trains across the sea. Funny people making land and putting pictures and stories about it in the papers as thought it’s something spectacular.” P143 “When I go you’re not to put me in the ground, do you hear. He was an old man and his foot was giving him hell, and he was shouting at them while they sat hurting. Burn me up, I tell you, it’s not safe in the ground, you’ll know all about it if you put me in the ground. Do you hear me?” P153  “...their eyes stood out watching for the tunnels mouth, waiting to pass out through the great mouth of the tunnel. And probably the whole of life was like that, sitting in the dark watching and waiting. Sometimes it happened that you came out into the light, but mostly it only happened in tunnels.” P144 “Funny people these Pakehas, had to chop up everything...couldn’t go round only through. Couldn’t give life, only death.” “And anyway, who was right up there helping the Pakeha to get rid of things – the Maori of course.” P144 <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> A defeated old man who struggles with change but doesn’t complete misunderstand it. He knows there is a need for change but wonders why the things that are important to him must change. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">“And then coming out of the second tunnel that’s when you really had to hand it to the Pakeha, because there was a sight.” P145 <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">“He was filled with admiration. Filled with admiration...” P145 He is defeated because he cannot explain to the Pakeha man why his land needs to be retained by the family. Defeated because he wanted things sorted for his brother’s and sister’s children before he dies and he hasn’t been able to do it. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">“-there are my brother’s children, my sister’s children and me. It doesn’t matter about me because I’m on the way out, but before I go I want it all done.” P147 He tries to understand. Tries to reason with the way things are now but still struggles. He repeats himself often...sometimes as if to talk himself into his meeting...as a way of psyching himself up for meeting with the council and talking about his whanau’s land. He keeps saying “people need houses”, <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">“He agreed. Of course he agreed. People needed houses” He is sceptical of the Pakeha but also admires them. He is realistic about the world as he finds it now. He understands that the young Maori of today are right there beside the Pakeha helping the change, destroy everything. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Short Story - Journey
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">About Character __**
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">About Change __**
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Big, important quotes about theme __**
 * __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;">This story is about __**