Outlander Book Club: Voyager Chapter 11 breakdown

Foreshadowing in the Outlander chapter

As the conversation goes on, Voyager Chapter 11 continues to foreshadow this developing bond between the two men. It looks like it’s over at the end of the chapter, but we know there’s more to come. Lord John Grey is not going away!

However, the actual foreshadowing is in Jamie’s discussion about the nights before Prestonpans. He talks about how honorable John is, and it foreshadows a request Jamie will make in the future. He needs someone to look out for Willie in the way a father should, and he can only ask John to do that. After all, nobody else knows Willie is Jamie’s son.

There isn’t too much in the form of foreshadowing. After all, a lot of the chapter is focused on the past; of Jamie’s thoughts about John. However, it’s clear that there is more to come from this bond.

Adapting the Voyager chapter

Of course, there was no way the series would get away with not adapting the chapter. This chapter was merged with others that all take place in John’s quarters at the prison for Outlander Season 3. The most important parts of the conversations are used, helping to tell enough of the story to make sense later.

This chapter is heavily used, though. It has to be, but in a slightly different way.

Jamie doesn’t have this conversation in the room. It’s a conversation on the island when Jamie has been recaptured. Well, when Jamie lets himself be caught.

Jamie points out that he knows who Jamie is and knows that John had one final promise: to kill Jamie the next time he saw him. It was time for John to fulfill that promise. It’s something not raised in the chapter, but in the show, it continues to show the type of man that John is. While he should keep his word, he doesn’t want to kill Jamie. He’s come to understand Jamie more up to this point, and he wouldn’t exactly get away with it anyway.

We did get John opening up to Jamie and we got the moment where John touched Jamie stirring old memories. They are important to understand John and to continue this back and forth between them as Jamie isn’t 100% comfortable around John just yet.

Overall, the changes didn’t disrupt the overall story. It was just right to mix John’s time at Ardumsuir with Claire’s time in the 1960s.

What did you get from reading Outlander Book 2, Chapter 11? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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