The Stone Angel Chapter One Answers

what do we learn about the narrator's mother in the opening of the novel?

We learn that the narrators mother died, when she was young, and that Hagar does not really think all to highly of her.

 

Where does

The narrator grew up in Manawaka.

 you describe Hagar as she explains what she's like at ninety (pp. 5-6)-

How would

 

What

Hagar's relationship with her fatheris she is alot like him, and he seems to favor her over the two boys.

 what we learn about Mr- currie and Hagar from the foot ruler incident-

Explain

Mr.Currie and Hagar are both very alike. They are both very stubborn people. Hagar trys not to cry in front of her father, even though she is hurting.

 

Where

The Curries come from their native land in Scottland.

 

what

We learn that Mr. Currie gave money to help the church simply to have people think highly for him. Simply for his repuation.

 do you account for Mr. Currie's remark "Consumption? That's contagious, isn't it? Well, the Lord works in wondrous ways His willto perform..

How

Consumption is contagious, but Mr. Currie remembers the situation in the cemetery, and believes it was gods work, so he did not come down with the deciece.

 

why

Mr.Currie does not want his son running around with 'half-breeds'

 does Dan die and what do we learn about Hagar by her refusal to put on the old plaid

shawl

Dan is dying, and Hagar refuses to put the shawl on her brother because Dan is calling out for his mother, and Hagar believes her mother was weak, and she doe not want to show weakness, by stepping into the role of her mother.

What is Lottie able to do that Hagar is not, in the town dump?

At the town dump Lottie was able to crush the eggshell skulls, and Hagar could not.

and comfort Dan?

How

won't Matt's father allow him to go hunting with Jules Tonnerre?

do we learn about Mr. currie from his involvement with rhe new church?

do the Curries come from?

kind of a relationship did she have with her father?

the narrator grow up?