Mother
why did mother smash her china plats?
Because she didn't want anyone else to have them.
What were Linas original thoughts of the bald man?
She thought that he was selfish.
What was Jonas fed after he got sick
canned tomatoes.
What book did Andruis give to Lina?
Domby and Son.
What camp was Linas father sent to?
Krasnoyarsk.
What is one essential thing Mother does to try and keep Lina and Jonas safe and alive during their journey and time in Siberia?
Mother sacrifices her well-being and possessions to get food and other necessities for her children.
What is one important thing Lina tries to do to help her little brother, Jonas, while they are in Siberia?
Lina tries very hard to protect Jonas and keep him alive, often sharing her meager food rations with him and comforting him when he is scared.
What does Jonas suffer from during much of his time in Siberia?
Screvy.
What dose Andruise give Lina as a token before she leaves to remember him by?
A rock.
What did everyone in Linas group do in order to reach there husbinds and fathers?
They wrote there mesiges on a stick and mailed it to them.
Despite immense cruelty, Mother often tries to maintain a sense of humanity for her children. How does this have a positive effect on them?
This has a positive effect on them because the mother's constantly being positive gives her children hope that they might one day escape.
How does Lina's strong will, her observational skills, and her deep love for her family help her to endure the immense suffering and loss she faces during the deportation?
Lina's strong will and love for her family help her with the suffering because she has people that she cares about with her, and her strong will helps her to never give up and always see hope.
How do Jonas's emotional struggles present significant challenges for Lina and Elena, and what do these challenges reveal about their bonds as a family in extreme circumstances?
This reveals that they have an extremely strong bond with each other; they go out of their way to help other sick family members, even if it means that they will get harmed in the process, and they know it.
How does Andrius's relationship with Lina provide a source of hope for both characters in the brutal realities of their Siberian imprisonment?
This provides hope for both of them because their being in a relationship during this hard time shows resiliency, which gives them hope.
The NKVD told the group members at the camps to sighn a paper, what would they have agreed to if they were to sighn the papers?
A declaration of guilt and a commitment to forced labor, they would be commicting themselves to 25 years in the labor camps.
Mother, gives up everything, even her own life to protect her children and others. how dose this show her love for her children?
This show's that she loves her children to an exrtrem level, to give up her own life and the torcher her self just to give her children a little more chance of survival.
How does Lina's passion for art, and her use of it as a coping mechanism and a form of documentation, both empower and endanger her during her deportation to Siberia?
This empowers her because she can document where she has gone and where she is going. However, this endangers her because if the NKVD were to find it, she would be in big trouble.
Jonas is the most vulnerable of the Vilkas family, How does his prolonged suffering show about the resilience of the human spirit.
It show's that jonas is willing to go through hell just to make it throught, this shows that his sprite is high and that is what drives him.
How does Andrius's background shape his adjustment to the harsh realities of deportation and later influence his unique approach to survival?
Andrus comes from lots of wealth, which likely means that he does not have any prior experience with manual labour; his approach to survival is to use his smarts to get around things.
Ulushka's character shifts dramatically from being damading and selfish, to helping Lina and her family. How does this transformation show that Mothers constent kindness had an effect on Ulushka?
This shows that mother's constent kindness not just to Ulushka, but everyone will rube off on them. This is clearly shown when before Mother, Lina and Jonas leave, Ulushka starts to give them all potatos, beets, and other verients food.
Lina and Jonas's mother often makes personal sacrifices to protect her children during their deportation. How do these actions both sustain and sometimes inadvertently burden her family, particularly Lina?
Mother makes sacrifices that will protect and help their family. When mother gives out food to people, this is her burden on her children and herself, but the reason for this to be done is to protect her family.
Lina was stripped of her home, family, and freedom, yet she consistently refuses to surrender. How does this act of resistance contribute to her survival?
How does Jonas's transformation from a vulnerable and often fearful young boy to a more resilient and proactive individual contribute to the survival and emotional well-being of Lina and their family throughout their deportation?
How does Andrius's resourcefulness and willingness to engage in "underground" activities, such as trading goods with the NKVD guards, impact the survival and morale of Lina and her family?
It hevaly impacts the survival of Lina, Mother and Jonas, this is because without all of the goods that they have gotten, they may have died.
In the horible environment of the Soviet labor camps, the small acts of kindness hold hope for the deportees, how do these minor gestures become crucial to the characters survival.
Acts of kindness become very crusial through out the story, this is becuase liveing in such harsh envoirments can lead to feeling helpless, and each act of kindness no matter how small, help everyone survive just a little longer.