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The Story
The Story
The Characters
Environment
Vocabulary
100
What feelings has the narrator for Marie?
He loves her.
100
Where does the story begin according to the narrator?
The story begins with Marie in her room.
100
What was the father’s occupation in 1948?
Sheriff of Mercer County
100
What is the name of the county where they live?
Mercer County
100
What means "prejudice" (sb.)?
Fordom
200
Why did the family hire Marie?
To be the housekeeper and to look after Davy.
200
Why did Marie come to Bentrock?
Because her mother married a Canadian who owned a bar called in Bentrock called Frenchy’s.
200
What did the mother want the father to be in his occupation?
An attourney (=lawyer)
200
What is the name of the town?
Bentrock
200
What means "relief"?
Lettelse, befrielse
300
Why doesn’t Marie want a doctor according to the father?
He thinks it’s superstition. She has never been to anyone but the tribal medicine man.
300
How does the narrator want to grow up?
Wild – getting out of town and into the country. ”Out of town he could be. He could feel himself.”
300
Why wasn’t the father in combat in the war?
Because of his leg. He walked with a permanent limp.
300
What is in the basement of the courthouse?
The jail and the father’s office
300
What means tranquility?
Ro, stilhed
400
Why did the father become sheriff?
Because his father turned the post over to him to retain the power in Mercer County.
400
Why is it only the boy’s story to tell when he isn’t the only witness?
There might be someone in that small Montana town who remembers those events as well as him, but no one knew all three of those people better than him; And no one loved them more.
400
What is the mother’s religious conviction?
Lutheran (=Christian)
400
Why didn’t Ronnie go to college?
Because college was not for Indians.
400
What means "frugality"?
Beskedenhed
500
Which four words does the father use to describe the Indians?
Ignorant, lazy, supertitious and irresponsible.
500
Why does the mother want to leave Montana? (2 reasons)
Because she wanted her husband to be merely himself and not a Hayden, and because she feared for David’s soul and was concerned about his values.
500
What is the name of the son and mother?
Gail and David
500
How many years after 1948 does the narrator tell this story?
He tells the story fourty years after.
500
What is "a dweller" in danish?
En beboer