Plot
Larry
Characters
Quotes
Vocabulary
100

What is the event that starts the play? 

The breaking of the apple tree

100
Who is "Larry's girl" according to Kate ?
Ann
100
Why was George coming to see the Kellers?
To stop Ann from marrying Chris/To find out the truth
100
Who says these lines: "I was fast asleep, and remember the way he used to fly low past the house when he was in training? When we used to see his face in the cockpit going by? That's the way i saw him. Only high up. Way, way up, where the clouds are."
Kate Keller
100

accountability

לקיחת אחריות

200
Who is Steve Deever and why is he in jail?
Ann's father/selling cracked cylinder heads to the military
200
How does Larry die?
He crashed his plane/suicide
200
What are Jim Bayliss' feelings towards his wife?
He feels trapped/ with her out of obligation: "And now I live in the usual darkness; I can't find myself; it's even hard sometimes to remember the kind of man I wanted to be."
200
Who says this line: "He never flew a P-40, what's the matter with you?"
Joe Keller
200

compromise

להתפשר

300

What was Joe's excuse for not being at the plant the day of the shippment? 

He was sick

300
Why did Kate object to planting a tree for Larry?
She felt it was too soon
300

What is Joe's reason for doing what he did?

He did it for the sake of his family

300
Who says these lines: "You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that, you threw away your son because that's why he died."
Chris Keller
300

betrayal

בגידה

400

What is the climax of the story? What happens as a result?

The reveal of Larry's letter, and consequently Joe takes his own life 

400
Why does Larry kill himself?
Ashamed of what his father had done
400

What is Anne's motivation for revealing the letter?

So she and chris would be able to cut ties from the Keller's and carry on with their lives

400
Who says these lines: "Because certain things have to be, and certain things can never be. Like the sun has to rise, it has to be. That 's why there's god. Otherwise anything could happen. But there's god, so certain things can never happen."
Kate Keller
400

self righteous

צדקן

500

What is the turning point of the story, and how does it changes the plot?

The turning point is when slipps the truth about Joe not being sick that day, which demands the characters to favce the truth about Joe's guilt

500
Why does Kate believe Larry is alive?
From the text: "God does not let a son be killed by his father."
500

At the end of the story, what kind of change does Chris go through?

He changes from an idealist to pragmatic, understanding that his moral world has collapsed and he his complicit with his father's crime.

500
Who says these lines: "Everything was being destroyed, see, but it seemed to me that one new thing was made. A kind of - responsibility. Man for man. You understand me? – To show that, to bring that onto the earth again like some kind of monument and everyone would feel it standing there, behind him, and it would make a difference to him."
Chris Keller
500

conceal

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