Quotes
"STELL-AHHHHH!"
Who is Stanley after the poker game during which he hits Stella?
What is the Kanun?
What is a code of customary Law
What is the setting of the novella?
What is Tokyo
This author wrote A Streetcar Named Desire in 1945.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
"Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable."
Who is Mikage (Kitchen) P82. This quote sums up Mikage's attitude toward life. Even though she has lost her entire family and the nurturing Eriko, she displays an innate strength and will to continue living.
What is the Bessa?
The pledged word, faith, truce
Why are people at university gossiping about Mikage, according to Sotaro?
What is because they think she is in a relationship with Yuichi
This is what Blanche uses to cover the light bulb in scene 3 and which could symbolize her aversion (dislike) for realism or hard truth.
What is a Chinese paper lantern?
"If a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is."
Kitchen, Eriko P41
What is the surname of Bessian and Diana?
What is Vorpsi
What concern does Eriko have about Yuichi’s temperament?
What is he’s too distant with people.
"I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be truth."
Who is Blanche to Mitch after he confronts her with what Stanley told him?
He could not put out of mind that icy morning in January when his father had called him to the great room on the upper storey of the house so that they could talk privately. The day was particularly bright, the sky and the new-fallen snow were dazzling, the world shone like glass, and with a kind of crystal madness.
What is Broken April. A pivotal memory for Gjorg is the morning he is told to avenge his brother’s death. Kadare fills the passage with vivid imagery. The sky and snow dazzle, glasslike, fragile, and beautiful. Then, Gjorg crosses a threshold, the delicate morning breaks, and he enters a world of blood and revenge.
What is a Tower of Refuge?
A tower with out windows where a man who has killed someone can seek refuge
Why is the loss of her grandmother a catalyst for a theme of survival in this story?
With her grandmother, the only person in her family left in here life, it really just hits her that she is the only one still alive
When this type of music is playing in the play, it expresses the theme of Blanche's loss of innocence and eventual loss of grip on reality.
What is the Varsouviana polka?
"I -- just told her that --we'd make arrangements for her to rest in the country. She's got it mixed in her mind with Shep Huntleigh."
Who is Stella to Eunice in scene 11 (final scene)?
What does the quote suggest about life in the text: "However, the rules of the blood feud were only a small part of the Code, just a chapter...Gjorg came to understand that the other part, which was concerned with everyday living and was not drenched with blood, was inextricably bound to the bloody part, so much so that no one could really tell where one part left off and the other began."
What is the impact and danger of normalized violence. While the blood feud makes up a small part of the Kanun, it nevertheless dominates the entire belief system.
What does Katsudon represent at the end of the story?
What it represents is healing, Mikage gives some to Yuichi at the end of the story.
This name, Blanche's last streetcar stop in New Orleans, is the land of the dead in Greek mythology.
What is Elysian Fields?