"You don't want them to get hurt," Arnold Friend went on. "Now, get up, honey. Getup all by yourself."
That moment troubles me a lot because I linked Arnold Friend to Lucifer. This is not only my intuition, but also supported by evidence in the text. He is threatening Connie while pretending to care for her family, which is a manipulative way to control her. The mixture of sweetness and violence makes him feel like an evil figure.
"Aunt Tillie's. Right now they're uh—they're drinking. Sitting around," he saidvaguely, squinting as if he were staring all the way to town and over to Aunt Tillie's backyard. Then the vision seemed to get clear and he nodded energetically.
The stutter gave it away that he's attempting to fabricate a lie. Or that he really had seen them before. It's vaguely put. Either way, it's extremely alarming.
She stood
In two words, it shows the eventual submission, a quiet sacrifice. Extremely powerful.
He looked at her. He took off the sunglasses and she saw how pale the skin around hiseyes was, like holes that were not in shadow but instead in light. His eyes were like chipsof broken glass that catch the light in an amiable way.
The sharp contrast between his skin suggests he had been chronically predatory.
Who were your teachers, your classmates?What did you wear? Who and what were you jealous of?
I think that if we can also recall classmates in elementary school maybe we can't remember all my classmates.