From the start, there's something not quite right about TillyTilly: she seems out of proportion. "Was she too tall and yet too ... small at the same time? Was her neck too long? Her fingers?” At first, she merely echoes Jess's words, but she soon develops into the friend and playmate Jess has never had. Together they have adventures: they manage to break into Jess's grandfather's locked study and then into an amusement park (also locked) where the gates magically swing open.
All too quickly, though, the family returns from exotic Nigeria to prosaic England, where Jess is surrounded once again by bullying schoolmates, a hostile teacher and her hateful, doll-like blond cousin, Dulcie. Then, to Jess's joy, TillyTilly reappears, simply knocking on her door. They play together, go on a picnic, write a poem. But TillyTilly also formulates a plan to "get" Jess's tormentors.
The reader suspects that TillyTilly is one of those imaginary friends so common to lonely childhoods, and that the strange and sinister events art happening only in Jess's imagination. But just as Jess herself begins to doubt whether TillyTilly is "really really" there, her playmate's malevolent magic begins to spread, infecting every corner of Jess's world.
TillyTilly's power, at least, is far from imaginary. She reveals that Jess had a twin who died at birth — and that she intends to act on that twin's behalf. No longer a girl but a hordfic primeval presence, she takes over Jess's beciroom, turning it from a safe haven into a place of terror. "Stop looking to belong, half-and-half child," TillyTilly intones, "Stop. There is nothing; there is only me, and I have caught you."
Oyeyemi brilliantly conjures up the raw emotions and playground banter of childhood, writing with the confidence and knowledge of one who has only recently left that state herself. Jess' s schoolmates, her therapist, the people she meets in Africa, even her parents, remain suitably shadowy figures, seen solely through the distorting lens of Jess's increasingly skewed perception.
"The Icarus Girl" explores the melding of cultures and the dream time of childhood, as well as the power of ancient lore to tint the everyday experiences of a susceptible little girl's seemingly protected life. Deserving of all its praise, this is a masterly first novel — and a nightmarish story that will haunt Oyeyemi's readers for months to come.
Jessamy Harrison is a girl who______.
A.is a native British girl
B.is out of her mind
C.is a born in a poor family
D.has trouble in controlling her temper
第1题
患者突然扑向正在疾驰的汽车轮胎下面,表示要投胎。此症状是
A.病理性象征性思维
B.逻辑倒错性思维
C.诡辩症
D.思维松弛
E.思维云集
第3题
患者,男性,21岁。2个月来多次撞向汽车轮胎,他解释说这样做是为了投胎,重做新人。此患者的症状属于
A.幻想
B.迷信
C.夸大妄想
D.特殊意义妄想
E.病理性象征性思维
第4题
A.自罪妄想
B.夸大妄想
C.强迫思维
D.病理象征性思维
E.迷信观念
第5题
A.思维贫乏
B. 罪恶妄想
C. 象征性思维
D. 被害妄想
E. 逻辑倒错性思维
第6题
A.思维贫乏
B.罪恶妄想
C.象征性思维
D.被害妄想
E.逻辑倒错性思维
第8题
患者男性,21岁,2月来多次撞向汽车轮胎,并解释说是为了投胎,重新做人,该患者的症状属于
A. 幻想
B. 迷信
C. 夸大妄想
D. 特殊意义妄想
E. 病理性象征性思维
第9题
患者男性,21岁,2月来多次撞向汽车轮胎,并解释说是为了投胎,重新做人,该患者的症状属于
A.幻想
B.迷信
C.夸大妄想
D.特殊意义妄想
E.病理性象征性思维
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