The Cone Gatherers - The Student Room.
Lady Runcie Campbell Challenge. Lady Runcie Campbell is one of the most interesting characters in the novel as her decisions impact massively on the events and on the other characters in the book. Your poster should include: Six key quotes. that analyse Lady Runcie Campbell's characteristics and which demonstrate her 'inner turmoil' between her need to carry out her duties as an upper class.Essentially Lady Runcie-Campbell is a weak character, who makes several misjudgements - she places her trust in Duror, ignoring his ever-increasing unsettling behaviour and she casts aside the.Lady Runcie-Campbell describes the cone gatherers, “as discreet as squirrels” p.46. After Duror has began to plot the cone gatherers demise by setting up the deer drive and spreading the lie about Calum, “the dogs, so innocent of lust or hate or cunning, followed him like guardians.”p.51.
Despite Lady Runcie Campbell originally doing to let the cone gatherers stay in the beach hut she changes her mind because of Duror. However, layer in the book when she finds then at the beach hut she disapproves. When Mr Tulloch tells Lady Runcie Campbell that Calum has a love of nature and sensitivity, she dismisses it as childishness. After.In this extract, Roderick, the son of Lady Runcie-Campbell, has become stuck, while climbing a fir tree. As Lady Runcie-Campbell runs for help, a shot rings out. .. From the silver fir to the Point took ten minutes; during them she seemed to travel to the furthest limits of her being, there to be baulked by not finding what she had hoped to find.
What effective imagery is used to describe how Duror feels while planning to involve lady Runcie Campbell in his scheme? What important theme is conveyed at this point and how? When Lady Runcie Campbell speaks to Mr Tulloch, how and why does her attitude change during the second phone call? What important theme is being conveyed here and how?
