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can anyone help me? And the girl on the altar? She was his, too, but not as much as the others he’d chosen, not with cops looking at her andtouching her and speculating. She should be in the stillness and the dark, and he hated what was happening behind the shards of stained glass: the bright lights and jaded cops, the medical examiner going about his dull, grim business. They would never grasp the reasons she’d died or why he’d chosen her or the incentive to let her be found. She was so much more than they could ever understand, not a woman or a body or a piece of some puzzle. In death, she was a child. At the end, they all were. . . . . what does "She was so much more than they could ever understand, not a woman or a body or a piece of some puzzle." mean? What does "In death, she was a child. At the end, they all were." mean?
2019년 5월 30일 오전 9:07
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The narrator is the murderer of a young woman so this: "She was so much more than they could ever understand, not a woman or a body or a piece of some puzzle." Is him saying how significant he considered the woman and how the police see her a victim/corpse (or a woman and a body as the murderer says) and, as this is what police do, they are concerned with figuring how her death happened (that's the puzzle part). This: "In death, she was a child. At the end, they all were." The murderer considers his adult victim a child - either because she was innocent, still young, or due to other features about herself. The second part is revealing two things. Firstly, he's killed more people. Secondly, that when someone is murdered, in their final moments they seem more like child (or at least, that's what I'm getting from the author using 'at the end' rather than 'in the end').
2019년 5월 30일
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It means that to him she was neither a woman nor a piece of a puzzle, she was to him a lot as a victim, more than the police could understand. In other words, the police could not understand his real, deepest reason/motives for killing her. he thinks, basically, that the police do not understand him. In death she was a child = he sees her like a defenceless victim, as he sees all victims: defenceless. "In the end they all are" - is a common enough phrase which means something like "generally speaking, they are all..".
2019년 5월 30일
hello
2019년 5월 30일
Yes
2019년 5월 30일
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