It's Apple Island! It is Apple Island!
-- Patience (Part I)

Importance: At the start of Part I, Esther Honey relays the story of her grand-grandparents' experiences during a flood roughly 100 years prior. Although the flood threatens to destroy the entirety of their life on the island, Patience Honey refuses to give up hope. Even after the flood kills some of their family members and many of Benjamin's orchards, Patience urges her husband not to give up. In this moment, she is insisting that Apple Island is still Apple Island in spite of what they have lost and how the flood has changed it. The moment underscores the islanders' attachment to the land, and the ways in which their descendants will define their sense of home by it.

Esther Honey neither liked nor trusted Matthew Diamond.
-- Narrator (Part I)

Importance: When the narrator first introduces Matthew Diamond's character, they reveal Esther Honey's negative regard for him. Although Matthew has...