Meet Jangles
What kind of fish is Jangles?
A trout.
What is the name of the lake where Jangles lives?
Big Lake.
What time of day is the boy fishing?
Dusk.
What can Jangles do that real fish cannot?
Talk.
What does the boy do to Jangles back at the boat?
He tricks and traps him.
How big is Jangles compared to other fish people had seen?
He is the biggest fish anyone had ever seen.
Who wanted to catch Jangles?
Everyone at Big Lake (all the fishermen).
Who is telling this story to his son?
The narrator's father, telling about his own boyhood.
What does Jangles share with the boy in the cave?
Stories and secrets, including secrets from the beginning of time.
What does Jangles say he is more than?
A fish.
What is covering Jangles' huge, crooked jaw?
Shiny metal lures and rusty old fishhooks of all shapes and sizes.
What did the legend say Jangles ate from the trees hanging over the lake?
Eagles.
What does the boy feel on his fishing line?
A tug.
How does the boy feel after a while in the cave?
Sleepy.
What two things does Jangles say he is?
A storyteller and a story.
Why is Jangles' jaw covered with lures and fishhooks?
He broke so many fishing lines.
What were the full-grown beavers doing when Jangles ate them?
Straying too far from home.
What does Jangles do with the boy's lure?
He swallows it.
What does Jangles say when it is time to leave?
"Time to go."
What does the boy think about doing to Jangles?
Frying him up (cooking him).
What sound do the lures and hooks make when Jangles swims, and how does that give him his name?
They clinked and clattered, so he was called Jangles.
What did some people swear Jangles once did for a baby?
He saved her from drowning (the baby had fallen in the lake).
Where does Jangles take the boy?
To his cave at the bottom (deepest part) of the lake.
Where does Jangles take the boy after he leaves the cave?
Back to the boy's boat.
What does the boy finally decide to do with Jangles?
The right thing, which is letting Jangles go.