Thread: Literary Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
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Old 06-27-2020, 02:01 AM   #5
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I'm not sure if anyone else is to this point yet, so I'll put it in spoilers though it's early-ish in the book yet, but
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I'm having a hard time imagining the scene of how Francie dies. It's described very quickly as if they're on a sort of hill and Francie trips and rolls down into the fire. It just seems difficult to imagine how that would kill her, unless the fall itself killed her with a broken neck or something but it seems to insinuate the fire kills her.

My other thought is that maybe instead of a hill, it's more an edge to a large pit (it does say a hollow) full of fire? But if so it seems odd she'd go anywhere near it.
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