Enduring love

The passage evolves around a picnic, which is disturbed by an event, in which 'a shout is heard'. This is significant within the novel as it is the moment where everything changes for the narrator.

The event occurs whilst the couple, 'Clarissa' and the narrator, are having a picnic. I can see this as they are 'sitting under a 'turkey oak', and she 'passes him the bottle'. They then 'heard a man's shout', which he 'was running towards'. Later on we find out that they are all running after a 'balloon'.

The fact that the narrator keeps referring to 'I' and 'we', it is almost as if he feels the need to talk about his exact actions. Giving the reader specific details, 'turkey oak', he is very observative of his surroundings.
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The genre of this novel from the beginning seems like a thriller, the way it is building up to discuss an event, 'this was the pinprick on the time map'. Yet, has elements of romance within him and his wife, 'the ways our love was different from and superior to any that had ever existed'.

It hooks the reader by the series by giving us clues along the way, 'the beginning is simple to mark' suggesting though it is easy to understand now it will get harder. This keeps the audience waiting and desperate to know ...

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