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Dawn is the infant child of Lesley who dies of what seems to be sudden infant death syndrome while several characters (including Dawn’s likely father, Sick Boy) are high on heroin. The incident weighs heavily on all of the characters, causing several of them to make pledges to give up their addictions, although many of these lofty plans fall through. Dawn’s death represents the death of innocence, partly due to addiction, but perhaps even more due to random chance, providing evidence for the bleak and pessimistic worldview that many characters like Rent Boy share in the story.
Dawn Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Dawn or refer to Dawn . 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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Ah never wanted anything mair in ma life than fir her tae stoap screamin.— The bairn’s away . . . the bairn’s away. . . Dawn. . . oh my god. . . oh fuckin god, wis aboot aw ah could pick ootay the horrible sound. She collapses oantae the threadbare couch.
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Dawn Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Dawn or refer to Dawn . 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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Ah never wanted anything mair in ma life than fir her tae stoap screamin.— The bairn’s away . . . the bairn’s away. . . Dawn. . . oh my god. . . oh fuckin god, wis aboot aw ah could pick ootay the horrible sound. She collapses oantae the threadbare couch.
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