But some of the same qualities that make the novel work so well are exactly the qualities that don't work in screenplays: most notably, that Carol herself is a ghostly character, the scant details of her life relayed to the reader in shards, through Therese's eyes — beautifully apt in the novel, so that the reader can visualize his or her own Carol.
One shard pierces through my neck and slices into my jugular, and blood is squirting through my fingers and pouring onto the floor.
He does not remember running toward the window, but he can recall kicking through the glass, the shards slicing through his legs before he landed in the courtyard three stories below.
Shards sliced through the bodies of pushcart vendors.
A curtain of green rippled overhead, the shards shot through with a faint purplish red.
Unlike colour blocking, which requires full commitment and various garments (the yellow blouse, the fuchsia trousers and the aqua satchel all at once), like a shard of light through the clouds it only takes a little rainbow to create something beautiful.
And this beautiful straw-coloured shard is cracked through an air bubble that has blown in the firing.
The Dayak tribesmen of Borneo passed a shard of bone through their glans for the opposite reason, to diminish their sexual activity.
When it works (which it generally has during this taut season), "The Walking Dead" gets in our heads like a shard of glass through an eye socket.
As she makes clear, no one is harder on the parents of a lost child than the parents themselves, who, with the hindsight bequeathed by their predicament, compulsively review every decision, second-guess every turn, pick through every shard of memory, looking for a clue: Why has this happened?
