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sunset song notes
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She is reeling from an argument with
Ewan, and also discovering she is pregnant and not reacting well
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Due to
being around the land, Chris naturally started to unwind and relax
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We learn that John’s demands of her daughter have became almost unbearable for
Chris to put up with
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We are very quickly to realise that despite Guthrie being a good heroic man (risking
his life for others on multiple occasions), his love for his daughter has became dark,
twisted and corrupt
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(“You’re my
flesh and blood, I can do with you what I will, come to me, Chris do you hear?”
“whispering and whispering at her, the harvest in his blood”)
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(“They’d done it in the Old
Testament times”)
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Chris begins to fear her father, and even starts to hallucinate impossible situations
such as her father climbing out of his bed and coming for her while she sleeps,

although he is paralysed
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Despite this fear, she knows her father loves
her and is only acting this way because of the harvest madness
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Chris discovers her father has died overnight when she checks on him one
morning
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This is the being of the illusion of freedom Chris has installed
in her mind
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(“She could sleep as she chose now” “she was free
at last”)
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They want to
take over the farm and land belonging to her father, but Chris does not want other
people making decisions for her anymore so she refuses to make plans until the will
arrives
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She doesn’t respect
the position of the minister or the person and she also doesn’t care about his work
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Guthrie is a complete
polar opposite to Gibbon, and Gibbon has been rumoured to have been drinking a
lot - this shows how superficial he is
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(“It was
what he was paid for, she neither listened nor cared”)
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She refers to him as “it” when thinking about him in the next
few paragraphs
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This illusion of
Chris being free is exaggerated by repeated the word “free” three times
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As they approach the churchyard, Gibbon symbolises corruption by describing the
sun disappearing and the sky going dark
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(“It was dark under the yews” - yews symbol
death, sorrow and sadness)
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(“it had
blackened over” “suddenly began to quiver”)
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She finally cries for her dead father, and also
cries because of his change over the years
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Chris also remembers what he used to be like before he was
corrupted by the church
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Chris grieves for the real John Guthrie and she “wept softly for the father she’s
never helped and forgot to love”
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(“she was free and free”)
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Chris has a sudden realisation and understanding of the lands true presence and
that although we all might be dead, the land would still be here and was here
forever
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The thought process of her realising all of this
begins when she realises that the decision to either leave the land and become a
teacher or stay was never her decision
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(“you were close to it and it
to you”)
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This isn’t sentimental
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She knows it is going to be rough and
constant work and it won’t be a pleasurable relationship whatsoever but she is
stunned with the idea of leaving the land
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The reality is also shown through rough stereotypical Scottish weather
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She is very taken aback about the realisation that she notices it is barely a choice in
the first place
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(“acid” horrible smell and taste)
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(“She could
no more teach a school than fly”)
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She gets her first sense of independence after kicking out her Aunt and Uncle for
trying to take over everything she was doing
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She knows it would be the easy option to go and live with the up in Aberdeen now
that her father is dead but she doesn’t want that
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When Chris arrives in Stonehaven, we know there is utterly no corruption
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She describes the streets as being
“choc-a-bloc with sheep” showing us that the land has taken over everywhere and
the old way of life was invading the town
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Ewan’s innocence is shown, referring to him as “shylike” and “blushing”
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There is no sign of corruption as the two young adults are simply mucking around
and falling in love which is completely natural
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Ewan is very
sensually described as eating an orange - this is not an apple because that would
link in to being evil and the garden of Eden
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He gets angry but they quickly move on
from that
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Chris and Ewan kiss later on in the chapter, which seals their love and there is
again no corruption here because it is a natural thing
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The two get carried away but Chris has no shame - another sign she is not
corrupted
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She understands that the best part of
something is the anticipation that builds up to it
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Ewan is the only main character who isn’t very spaced out and doesn’t have much
of a personality unlike folk along the lines of Chae or Long Rob
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Chris understands and accepts that married life will no be as easy as life as a
single woman will be but she gets married anyway
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While Chris is getting ready for her wedding, she has a moment to cry and really
miss her mother
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She
realises she is being silly, laughs at herself and shakes it off
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Long Rob saves a hen and he is compared to a “viking out of the picture books”
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Long Rob
however, makes a more realistic speech and shares his love for horses
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(“The
big curly was kissing the quean like a dog lapping up its porridge”)
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The other two are the
garden incident and the train station disaster
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Ewan is also shown as being connected to the land, being the first person to plough
the land that year
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(“Spring
had come and was singing and rilling all over the fields”)
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Ewans temper goes again and he is compared to being “foreign”
and “spitting like a cat”
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(“Queer and sorry”)
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Chris tries to share her philosophical thoughts with Ewan but he doesn’t understand
and is confused
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This is a realistic relationship where not everything is perfect but also suggests that
Chris may have been expecting too much
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(“Buried in the grass”)
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However, due to Chris’ links with nature we expect Chris to accept her pregnancy
but she does not
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Chris links her pregnancy to severe tortue and destruction
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She doesn’t tell Ewan she is pregnant for weeks, and is worried about telling him
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It reaches almost
6 months and Chris still hasn’t informed Ewan they are with child
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However, after Ewan makes a comment, Chris
gets angry and hits Ewan
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She runs away to the moor and is back to where she was at the start of the
paragraph
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she decides he would “take heed”
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