John Burnside Quotes

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John Burnside crafts Michael Gardiners’ character for him to appear pure and fragile in relation to an antagonist who’s capable of constantly tormenting an innocent. Malcolm has the skill to detect any action Michael may be planning on taking through reading his eyes and as a result strategically preventing his escape. For example, Michael expresses what occurs in Malcolm’s devious mind when he states, “He could see it in my eyes what I was going to do before I did it; he could see, at the very moment, that I was thinking of running, and his tongue flickered between his lips in soft appraisal, as if he too were working out the odds that were going through my head” (43). Malcolm’s shrewd, and cunning mind recognizes the skill required to make

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