11. The setting of Chain of Hearts helps reinforce
the idea that I can be hard to escape the past. Discuss. The setting in Chain of Hearts tells us that
it can be hard to escape your past. This is shown mainly through the characters
of Sophie and Fran. Throughout the story, Sophie and Fran are put in many
situations that take them back to things that have happened in there past and
these situations remind them of times in their life, some good and some bad. In
the story Sophie is taken back to her aunts house and while she is there she
meets lots of different people from her aunt Fran and her mother Geraldine’s
younger years. This reminds Fran about the times when she was younger and the
stories that Fran tells Sophie remind her of things that have gone on when she
was younger. This story really represents the idea that its hard to escape from
your past.
22. The language choices that Maureen McCarthy
makes throughout her novel, Chain of Hearts, help the reader to understand the
emotions of the characters. Discuss. There are many language choices that Maureen McCarthy makes to show
that the characters in the novel Chain of Hearts are being emotive. This is
shown a lot when Sophie is telling Fran about when she was involved in the car
crash that killed Mai, she uses emotive language to describe the fact that
Sophie is very emotional when remembering this time. She describes Sophie
crying, to show her emotions. Maureen McCarthy uses statements like “her voice dropped
away” and “she turned her head slightly so that I couldn’t see her face”. This
gives us an image in our head that Sophie is upset about the incident that
happened with Mai.
3. The relationships between the characters in
Maureen McCarthy’s novel, Chain of Hearts are reinforced to the reader by using
of multiple voices. Discuss. In the novel Chain of Hearts Maureen McCarthy
uses multiple voices for the Characters. This gives the readers a sense of the
different emotions and feelings that the characters have. It also lets us see
the situation from a different point of view when a different character is
talking. In the novel the start of the new chapter is a new characters voice,
this gives us a clear idea of whose point of view we are hearing at the time.
This is also good as it gives the readers a different prospective of the
situation that is being spoken about in the novel.
