Flight of the Heron read-along: Part IV chapters 3-4

[regshoe]

Farewell even to our Scottish name, so famed in martial story...

Another pivotal set of chapters. It's all coming together now...

Next week we'll read Part IV chapters 5 and 6.

Comments

[regshoe]

It is all brilliant, isn't it...

very early on Broster mentions that Keith is a fundamentally passionate and impulsive, and here we get to see him in all his glory

Haha, that's very true!

Yes, definitely agree about the importance to Ewen of thinking Keith had betrayed him. That Night in the Hut clearly means a very great deal to him, both at first and after he learns that Keith didn't betray him after all—I certainly think the dashed hope in between must have been equally meaningful in the other direction.

I find Ewen at the end of his tether to be quite fascinating: with his gentle spirit broken he will lash out at Keith but he is never cruel

Good point! Yeah, the polish of courtesy is gone but his fundamental decency is not.

I love how quickly they move past their upset to focus on each other again.

:D