ENG353Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nice Ltd., Apotheosis
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Second part: discovers, with time on her hands, relics of her parents life in the house. Mother"s albums of photographs/scrapbook of her own and her brother"s childhood. Triggers memories: inexplicably intolerant of her most recent memories. Crude drawings of anthropoids and strange creatures with strange comments. Looking for will, looks again at the drawings. Then, finds a letter which indicates he"s been transcribing rock drawings onto paper, engaging in research. Compelled by morbid curiosity to follow map to the source of the drawings. Finds the body of her father under the water, who has drowned, weighed down by a heavy camera. Not the realization of her father"s death that startles her: it"s the memory of her aborted child that comes back to her. (coerced into abortion, never actually married. ) This was the real reason she refused to talk to her parents, had this cool distant persona.
