Emily of New Moon (Emily Part 1) (Emily Starr Trilogy)

by L.M. Montgomery

the rest of the poem went. It had been disgraced—degraded—it must be blotted out of existence.

Perry Miller

"Don't touch them—you have no right!" gasped Emily frantically.

Teddy Kent,

Haha - a carikachure no doubt.

UNFAIR. Another August Wilson moment.

HORRIBLE

"You shall not burn them—you shall not have them," gasped Emily.

a kind of calm rage.

You are an unjust, tyrannical person."

Emily was at first too much excited over saving her precious poetry to pay much heed to this threat.

Haha

Emily shrank from the impending ordeal with all the dread of a sensitive, fine strung nature facing humiliation.

she knew at the bar of Aunt Elizabeth and Miss Brownell she would not have justice.

UNFAIR

a dreamland scene that would ordinarily have delighted her.

Simile

The big black-raftered kitchen looked spookish and weird,

Cousin Jimmy,

looking more gnome-like than ever.

Now that the crisis had come she found herself able to confront it coolly—nay,

producing a rather skeletonic effect.

Telling what is the truth is impertinent to the object if the truth. Cf. Critical race theory, or other facets of American history that make one uncomfortable. The overwhelming reaction is to try and silence the speaker.

Angry with a little smugness - neither is being “sorry.”

UNFAIR.

"You heard a pack of lies," said Perry,

poor Elizabeth Murray,

Haha narrator’s faux sympathy

There was a chuckle as mirthful and malicious as an owl's

Simile

HORRIBLE.

Never again, Miss Brownell felt, would Emily be able to look levelly at her with those dauntless eyes that bespoke a soul untamable and free, no matter what punishment might be inflicted upon body or mind.

"A human being should not kneel to any one but God," said Cousin Jimmy,

Yes! Presbyterians won’t even keel in church! Haha but what about due process? Is there something in the Canadian constitution about that? Question

A sudden strange change came over Elizabeth Murray's proud, angry face. She stood very still, looking at Cousin Jimmy—stood

But she had escaped the unbearable, and things might be worse.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) is a narrative poem in six cantos with copious antiquarian notes by Walter Scott. Set in the Scottish Borders in the mid-16th century, it is represented within the work as being sung by a minstrel late in the 1600s. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lay_of_the_Last_Minstrel

That’s a long read! Question

the light that never was on land or sea in her young eyes.

fount of Castaly?

Castilian Spting? Roman poets regarded it as a source of poetic inspiration. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castalian_Spring Or a weird book by someone called “Gordon”? (At Amazon but not at the Internet Archive) Question

"you can talk to me all you want to.

The White Lady,

Haha

Jennie

Frank Barker.

Ilse says she is going to call God Alla after this.

HORRIBLE response to Emily’s enthusiasm.

once Uncle Wallace smiled right at me. I did not think him so ugly when he smiled.

Haha

Ilse

Cousin...

Aunt Laura

kept things pleasant. She is good at making things pleasant.

my old account-book that Aunt Elizabeth burned, because it seemed just like a person to me.

I didn't feel like a stranger among the Murrays any more.

'Your mother and I used to stand like this long ago, Emily, to watch the Christmas guests go away.'