exposition
rising action
climax
falling action/resolution
100
What is a jetty?
jetty, N.: wall or barrier built into a body of water to protect a harbor.
100
What is the place that the narrator was christened and received and had sung in the junior choir?
Her church.
100
What is the fear that the narrator feels when she comes to the jetty?
Slipping between the boards of the jetty.
100
What is the last sign of love that the mother and father give to the narrator on their way to the ship?
a kiss on the forehead from dad and a kiss on the mouth from mom.
200
how old is the narrator when her mother sends her to the chemist's shop alone?
5 years old
200
What is the reason the narrator had to visit her friend against her mother's will?
Her friend had the mumps.
200
What is the reason that the narrator would walk to the jetty in the evenings?
Her father's stomach went bad. The doctor recommended a walk after dinner. The narrator sometimes went along with him.
200
What does the narrator see on the shore as she is taken out to the ship on the launch?
The run-down houses where only poor people lived.
300
In the beginning of the book the narrator is preparing to...
leave the island of her childhood.
300
Why did the narrator go to the eye-doctor?
Supposedly her eye's felt weak, but she really just wanted horn-rimmed glasses like the girl in a book she read.
300
What is the climax of the story?
The narrator thinks "I shall never see this again" and is both glad and afraid.
300
What is the resolution of the story
The narrator decides she is not a child any longer and boards the ship.
400
Who made the narrator mad with "a wave of bad feelings”
Miss Dulcie
400
What is the item that was imported from England, which Annie sat in front of every time they visited the store where the item stayed? What was it made out of?
a large porcelain dog.
400
Where is the narrator going and why?
To England to live and work with relatives there.
400
The narrator notices beautiful things about her home: the seagull with the silver fish, the smell of the sea, the greetings of the fishermen, the blue sky, the white sand; but also ugly things: the rubbish floating in the water, the hot sun, the run-down houses. How does that relate to her "bobbing" feeling of "I shall never see this again"?
She is happy and sad to be leaving, and noticing things both good and bad about her home.
500
What is the color and printed scenes on Annie john's dress, when she was 5 years old, walking on the road that she took to go everywhere?
the dress was yellow with acrobats flying through the air and swinging on a trapeze.
500
Who is the book about that the narrator's mother read to her in the library? What did the narrator's mom do to her milk from then on?
Louis Pasteur, inventor of the technique called Pasteurisation. She boiled the milk to purify it.
500
What does it mean that the narrator describes the words "I shall never see this again" as "bobbing up and down inside me?
She keeps alternating from positive to negative feelings about the idea.
500
How does the narrator think her parents will react to her gripping their hands?
She thinks they will disapprove.
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