Notes:

• Word version of painting
• Fruit symbolizes passion; it kills you
• Sensual poem
• Girls are checking out men – bad to look at them
• Laura can’t resist; gives a lack of her hair – piece of herself – for the fruit; sign of losing virginity
• Men now have power over her
• She is hooked on fruit and can’t give it up; metaphor for drugs
• Laura longs for the night, but she can no longer hear the goblin call
• Fruits – Tree of Life – Laura needs it to live
• Line 290 – Laura sees a mirage, she’s beginning to die
• Lizzie decides to save her; searches out the goblins
• They tempt her
• She resists so they become violent and try to force the fruit into her mouth
• Squishes it all over her face (Metaphor for Rape)
• She runs back home to Laura who kisses her and sucks the juices
• Cures her because after the second taste you couldn’t stand it – Homeopathic therapy –
• takes same thing to cure it (Allopathic – cure with something else)