1. Compare And Contrast
It is symbolic of risk, achievement and imperfection; it brings together the gap between the river, which represents the unknown, and the bridge one stands on, the tangible world where the boys feel secure. Lawrence, like Leper who will be discussed later, ".merely inhabited the nether world of the unregarded, where no one bothered him or bothered about him." (A Turn with the Sun:13). Lawrence is not in fact so much despised as viewed with disdain.
Lawrence wishes both to fit in and have his schoolmates admire him as an individual. This desire leads to his death, ".in the river which winds between the playing fields." (A Turn with the Sun:28) Knowles foreshadows Lawrence's demise when, "He had felt he was still in the air as he walked from the gym back to his room that afternoon, still spinning down upon his own bright image in the murky water."(A Turn with the Sun) Knowles uses the word "bright" to convey the sense of hope Lawrence has for the future, and represent his potential for a bright future. Unfortunately, the water is "murky" which points out that the future Lawrence is jumping into is an ambiguous one. Inadequacy, failure, and death, are all possibilities in the murky waters of his future, hidden by his bright image and ambitions.
They play down Lawrence's death at the end, "I don't think he cared," Bruce remarked suddenly. The headmaster straightened sharply. "What do you mean?" Bruce's thoughts doubled over this instinctive statement, to censor it or deny it." (A Turn with the Sun:30) Not well liked, ".he marveled again at his own failure, after seven months, to win a single close friend." (A Turn with the Sun:12), Lawrence is quickly transformed from someone they reproach, ".he threw his small steamer trunk, filled with shoes and books, down the long flight of stairs under which the housemaster lived.they concluded that he was strange." (A Turn with the Sun:20) to someone they have forgotten.
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