chapter 1 Night

• chap 1 'Night'

  • introduced nameless narrator held captive gymnasium: opening page Olfactory imagery (smell) sweat,chewing hum and perfume which remian 'like an afterimage' from girls who atteneded dances previously: sense longing/nostalgia. Females 'Alma.Janine.Dolores.Moira.June. sense threat builds aunts 'patroling' with 'cattle-prods' ie survaliance/violence imagery BUT foreshadowment defiance as females 'learned to whisper almost without a sound. In the semi darkeness... hands across space'