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Post by Abaratian on Feb 26, 2009 6:08:36 GMT -5
BEGINS: FEB 4
CHAPTER: 4 - "Street Ends"
I am posting this thread to make all aware that on Wed February 25, 2009 you all can begin discussing in this thread anything that has to do with the fourth chapter of the Abarat.
If any one discussion point comes up that seems really interesting and others want to go further it with it let me suggest the starter of the topic begin a new thread for it so it doesn't congest this thread. I can't wait to hear all the points you want to bring up that you liked, dislikes, thought was interesting or whatnot. Thanks.
NEXT WEEK: MARCH 4
CHAPTER: 5 - A Shore Without a Sea
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Post by THE LADY OF MIDNIGHT on Mar 19, 2009 19:23:28 GMT -5
What I want to know is how foul does the town smell? I mean it comes up several times.. the awful foul smell but you'd think that if they lived there they would be used to the stench. I'm just being overly analytical I suppose. I love this chapter because this is where we learn a bit about Lavinia White or the Old Widow White and her pinwheels. What a site that would be. It they ever made a movie I think I'd be fascinated with a shot of the house and the pinwheels spinning in the wind and the others littering the lawn with her peering out at Candy as she passes by. This chapter always reminds me of that poem by Shel Silverstein called "Where the Sidewalk Ends" www.milechai.com/product2/children_hebrew/sidewalk.htmI'm sure why.. maybe just because the sign "Street Ends" seems so important to this chapter. |
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Post by Abaratian on Mar 19, 2009 21:30:58 GMT -5
About an hour away from where I live is the "chicken capital of the world" - Gainesville, Georgia (I live in Atlanta). Gainesville has a smaller population than Chickentown, but it's also right on Lake Lanier, where loads of people go for short vacations. There's like a water park up there, fishing and boating... me and my friends have gone camping there before. And I honestly couldn't smell a thing at all. Maybe right around the farm it smells, and if there's a big wind you could get a whiff of it, but I think if you're a good mile or so away it would be hardly noticable.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2009 2:23:57 GMT -5
That is strange. I wonder what Clive Barker thought of as he wrote that, then. I mean, I've never been to a chicken factory (or a Chicken Capital for that matter!) but we had chickens when I was a kid and the smelled. Not particularly bad, I guess, they just... smelled. And when I read that Chickentown smelled bad I sort of could imagine it. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of chickens is bound to stink it up, I thought. But really, I have no idea. It should smell inside and around the factory but in the whole town? I've never given it much thought, but I think you're right, Abaratian: it shouldn't smell that bad in town.
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Post by RedStockings on Apr 16, 2009 10:10:54 GMT -5
I liked the Widow White. I thought prehaps out of everyone, she's the most likely to know about the Abarat. Maybe the windmills are there to show her when the wind changes, as Candy notices the wind starts to blow from the North the further she walks into the feild. A breeze from the Abarat?
I agree, the garden would make a striking scene in the film, all run down and weird.
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