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Symbols
Characters
Style
Plot
Miscellaneous
100
Fur coat, The bear, The Great Bear Lake
What are some symbols of grandfather Connor?
100
Edna's old boyfriend, came from Winnepeg, works in loan company.
Who is Jimmy Lorimer?
100
The author put the stories in ________ order.
What is Chronological?
100
Standing outside without his fur coat, sobs against Vanessa's cheek.
What did grandfather do after he knew grandmother was dead?
100
Grandmother's favorite pet.
What is the canary?
200
security and safety, or caging from exploring the outside world.
What is the brick house symbolize for?
200
Quiet, religious, and angel
Who is grandmother Connor?
200
Most of the allusions refer to ___________.
What is The Bible?
200
Grandfather picked Vanessa up in the ice rink, Vanessa talks about her stories
What is the exposition?
200
Jimmy's line of work.
What is Reliable Loan Company?
300
Her tenderness, attentive, so familiar with everyone's feeling
How does angel symbolize grandmother?
300
The writer of The Pillars of the Nation and The Silver Sphinx.
Who is Vanessa?
300
"It was the way he would stalk around the Brick house as though it were a cage. "
What is a simile?
300
Vanessa overheard the conversation between Edna and Jimmy through ________.
What is the stove-pipe leading up from the kitchen?
300
"You're an awful _________, Vanessa." said Grandfather Connor.
What is dawdler?
400
Surliness, impatient, unsympathetic, hardworking
How does bear and the fur coat symbolize grandfather?
400
carved face and untouchable
Who is Grandfather Connor?
400
Very calm because Vanessa doesn’t seem to perceive the concept of death or is trying to understand it at this age.
What is the tone?
400
Jimmy came over to have dinner with the Connors, argue with Edna
What are the rising actions?
400
Uncle Terence lived in _____________.
What is Toronto?
500
The canary became a replacement of grandmother for grandfather
How does the symbol "bird" associate with this chapter?
500
Believes everyone has their own shield in the Connors family.
Who is Uncle Terence?
500
Very formal, occasionally, hard to understand
What is the style of the dialogues in the story?
500
The climax of the this chapter.
What is grandmother's death?
500
The Pillars of the Nation is about ______________.
What is a pioneer?