Stone Angel, Chapter 1
1) What do we learn about the narrator's mother in the opening of the novel?
After giving birth the mother died.
After giving birth the mother died.
2) Where does the narrator grow up?
Manawaka
3) How would you describe Hagar as she explains what she's like at ninety (pp.
5-6)
rampant with memort and smokes cigarettes.
rampant with memort and smokes cigarettes.
4) What kind of a relationship did she have with her father?
They were both very similar to eachother.
5) Explain what we learn about Mr. Currie and Hagar from the foot ruler incident.
We learned that Hagar takes after her dad as they are both stubborn.
6) Where do the Curries come from?
They came from scotland. Scottish ancestry.
7) What do we learn about Mr. Currie from his involvement with the new church?
We learned that Mr.Currie contributes a lot to his church, and never missesa sunday service and fears god.
8) How do you explain Mr. Currie's remark "Consumption? That's contagious, isn't
it? Well, the Lord works in wondrous ways His will to perform. "
Mr. Currie's remark consumption by making himself feel better because he got turn down lotie droiser's mother.
9) Why won't Matt's father allow him to go hunting with Jules Tonnerre?
he believes Matt will blow his foot off or get hurt.
10) How does Dan die and what do we learn about Hagar by her refusal to put on
the old plaid shawl and comfort Dan?
Dan dies from getting Pneumonia from falling in a hole on the ice in Wachaka River.
11) What is Lottie able to do that Hagar is not, in the town dump?
She found a broken chicklets and killed them.
12) Which characters do you associate with Hagar's past and which do you associate with
her present?
Lottie, Her father,brother, and Aunty Doll. Which were associate with her present.
Lottie, Her father,brother, and Aunty Doll. Which were associate with her present.
