Both Uses of
propel
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Phoebe's thin wails rose in the darkness, propelling Caroline across the asphalt and past the wide blank squares of light, to the automatic doors of the grocery store.†
p. 53.2 *propelling = causing something to move forward
- For the rest of his life, he realized, he would be torn like this, aware of Phoebe's awkwardness, the difficulties she encountered in the world simply by being different, and yet propelled beyond all this by her direct and guileless love.†
p. 401.2propelled = caused something to move forward
Definition:
cause to move forward (to push or encourage)