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Terry is Karamat’s wife and Eamonn and Emily’s mother. Terry is Irish-American and independently wealthy as an interior designer. Karamat’s marriage to her is seen by many as a way for him to both “integrate” into white British society and get funding for his political ambitions. Eamonn notes that Terry believes one should find meaning in more than just work and paychecks, and for this reason she helps fund his time off of work—something for which Eamonn is grateful, but which also adds to his feelings of being inadequate in his father’s eyes. Terry is also a stand-in for the character Tiresias the prophet in Sophocles’s Antigone, although the parallel is somewhat less direct than the other parallels between the novel and the play. In the play, Tiresias is a blind man who foretells Haemon’s death to his father, King Creon, and convinces Creon (too late) not to have Antigone killed.
Terry Lone Quotes in Home Fire
The Home Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Terry Lone or refer to Terry Lone. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2 – Isma
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All the old muck. He meant the picture of Karamat Lone entering a mosque that had been in the news for its “hate preacher.” LONE WOLF’S PACK REVEALED, the headlines screamed when a tabloid got hold of it, near the end of his first term as an MP. The Lone Wolf's response had been to point out that the picture was several years old, he had been there only for his uncle’s funeral prayers and would otherwise never enter a gender-segregated space. This was followed by pictures of him and his wife walking hand in hand into a church.
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Chapter 8 – Karamat
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“Please don’t try to develop a spine. You weren’t built for it. Did she give you your first really great blow job, Eamonn? Is that what this is about? Because trust me, there are better ones out there.”
A pause, and then his son’s voice at its most cuttingly posh: “I think we’re done here, Father.”
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Terry Lone Quotes in Home Fire
The Home Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Terry Lone or refer to Terry Lone. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2 – Isma
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All the old muck. He meant the picture of Karamat Lone entering a mosque that had been in the news for its “hate preacher.” LONE WOLF’S PACK REVEALED, the headlines screamed when a tabloid got hold of it, near the end of his first term as an MP. The Lone Wolf's response had been to point out that the picture was several years old, he had been there only for his uncle’s funeral prayers and would otherwise never enter a gender-segregated space. This was followed by pictures of him and his wife walking hand in hand into a church.
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Chapter 8 – Karamat
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“Please don’t try to develop a spine. You weren’t built for it. Did she give you your first really great blow job, Eamonn? Is that what this is about? Because trust me, there are better ones out there.”
A pause, and then his son’s voice at its most cuttingly posh: “I think we’re done here, Father.”
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