kil·lick also kil·lock (k l k)n. A small anchor, especially one made of a stone in a wooden frame. [Origin unknown.] |
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Her first vision as she imagines life with Killicks is of the pear tree "desecrated"; then to her, Killicks's house seems "a lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been" (20). Similarly, when, in a discussion of the way that Nanny speaks about Logan in Their Eyes Were Watching God, we are told that by replacing her earlier terms of address, Brother Logan Killicks, with epithets about his being grass-gutted and liver-lipped, Nanny is violating his "original subject position . As family connections and stories can be a link to the past for children, so can relics: quilts, killicks, war medals - the objects that survive us. |
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