Zusammenfassung der Ressource
BIRDSONG THEMES (3)
- Fate and Freewill
- ''What is waiting for you can't be changed, but
if you hesitate you will needlessly endanger
the lives of others.''-p373
- ''...it struck all the men: that there was no way back.''-p376
- ''A promise..made by my grandfather.''p502
- ''...bodies stacked like sandbags one on another. It was not what he had
chosen, but it was all that was left to them.''-p380
- ''I don't want to fight the French...I must do my duty.''-p464
- ''...he would complete what no enemy had managed.''-p450
- Rememberence
- ''...restore poor Brennan's life or take away the pity of
the past.''-p405
- ''When it's over you can
remember them.''-p369
- ''It mattered because her own grandfather
had been here...her own flesh and
blood.''-p369
- Masculinity and Feminity
- ''Azaire who saw his duty as a
councillor to lie with the men of
Amiens...''-p332
- ''I never think of women. They belong
to a different existance.''-p151
- ''...they had all become expert with needle and thread.''-p205
- Berard and the little
boat -p42
- Religion
- ''He prayed for a moment and tried to find some thought or prayer...'-p462
- Birds and their significance
- '''The little man in the wheelchair was like a bird...''-p402
- ''...with the birds singing and the gentle clouds
above them.''-p437. Prior entering the tunnel.
- ''Anything was bearable provided
that he did not have to come too
close to that bird.''-p302
- ''A lark was singing in the unharmed air above him.''-p485