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Date Posted: 06:06:21 08/27/09 Thu
Author: Carla
Subject: Chapter 59: Nuala


Pamela and Casey get caught out in a terrible storm and take refuge in the cottage of an old woman, Nuala, whose husband and three sons all drowned at sea. She is waiting for them to come back to her and in the meantime talks to them as if they’re still there. She even has the skulls of two of her sons on the mantelpiece. She tells the story of their lives and deaths and then goes out into the storm to watch for their return.

Pamela and Casey bed down at the cottage and awake in the early hours to a waning storm and Nuala sleeping on the floor. She’d come back in the night and told Casey Sean wasn’t coming tonight, but would be soon. Casey and Pamela leave, needing to be alone. They talk about what they would do should one of them die.

I wondered, reading about Nuala, why she simply didn’t follow her men into the ocean. The loss of her family has obviously been too much for her mind to handle, so why not take the final step and join them? Is there a lesson for Casey and Pamela in Nuala’s story?

Chapter 60: All that You Can’t Leave Behind

Casey goes to get supplies from the boat and comes back with the news of a massacre in Derry and the surety that Pat was there. He announces that they must leave so he can find out if Pat is okay. Casey says he’s willing to risk being recaptured for the sake of finding out how Pat is. They spend the day in a tense silence, waiting for the boat that will bring them back to the mainland.

I did wonder why they couldn’t simply contact Jamie and find out what was happening with Pat, rather than risk Casey being captured. If you were in that situation, could you accept news from a third party or would you need to see for yourself? Is it worth the risk of Casey being picked up again?

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