The House Without Windows · Chapter
Endnotes explained
The endnotes provide supplementary details, including a description of the cordary berry and a note on the author's favorite childhood books.
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The endnotes provide supplementary details, including a description of the cordary berry and a note on the author's favorite childhood books.
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Breaking point
This is the dramatic climax because Eepersip reaches her emotional and psychological peak of desperate longing…
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- Barbara Newhall Follett
Referenced as the author whose childhood reading included The Three Mulla-Mulgars, A Little Boy Lost, and The Princess and the Goblin.
Key passages
“The cordary berry grows during the winter and is at its best at New Year. The seeds have sweet meats. The berries are bright red, and the seeds dark purple, running over inside with sweet juice which keeps the kernel moist.”
The cordary berry ripens in winter, peaking at New Year, with bright red berries and dark purple seeds filled with sweet juice that preserves the kernel.
Clarifies the description of the cordary berry.
“No books meant more to her, between the ages of six and ten, than The Three Mulla-Mulgars , A Little Boy Lost , and The Princess and the Goblin .”
Her most cherished books from ages six to ten were The Three Mulla-Mulgars, A Little Boy Lost, and The Princess and the Goblin.
Highlights the author's early literary influences.
