Please simplify this sentence for me.
The image was in stark contrast to Hollis ' first sight of her, face frozen with rigor mortis, pinkish foam oozing from her blue lips.
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Hi Moseen I guess that the character has seen the dead body of a woman and that he is then looking at a photo of her, when she was alive. The last dozen words describe how she looked when she was dead. We aren't told how she looked before, but we can infer that she was once a happy, perhaps beautiful, person - stark = severe, sudden, shocking, unpleasant, brutal - contrast = when two things are put close together, in the mind or in reality, and you realise how different they are Regards, Dave
- Hi Moseen I guess that the character has seen the dead body of a woman and that he is then looking at a photo of her, when she was alive.
- The last dozen words describe how she looked when she was dead.
- We aren't told how she looked before, but we can infer that she was once a happy, perhaps beautiful, person - stark = severe, sudden, shocking, unpleasant, brutal - contrast = when two things are put close together, in the mind or in reality, and you realise how different they are Regards, Dave
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Hi Moseen
I guess that the character has seen the dead body of a woman and that he is then looking at a photo of her, when she was alive. The last dozen words describe how she looked when she was dead. We aren't told how she looked before, but we can infer that she was once a happy, perhaps beautiful, person
- stark = severe, sudden, shocking, unpleasant, brutal
- contrast
0Hi Moseen
I'm not a pathologist but I believe that, if the lungs have been damaged then a mixture of blood, mucus and air will tend to appear on the lips as a pinkish foam
The lips will be blue because the blood will no longer be oxygenated - it will be like the blue of your veins
Not a happy subject!
Hope this helps, Dave
0Lungs or airway, I should have said. Maybe I am a pathologist: is it evidence of strangulation?
Dave
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