Characters
What is Dolores and Matilda's last name?
Laimo.
What is described as the "one of the most fertile places on earth"?
Bougainville.
Who is this about: "We did not know anymore if she was black or white."?
Grace Watts.
One of the main ideas in the novel is the importance of storytelling, but when does storytelling become a bad thing?
When it is a single narrative that is not collaborative e.g. Matilda keeping "Great Expectations" from her mother and the Red Skins solider stuck in his own violent narrative.
Name the novel AND its author, that runs parallel and is referenced throughout "Mr. Pip". This is also a symbol.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
What is Grace Watts' birth name?
Sheba.
What decade do the events in "Mr. Pip" take place in?
1990s.
What is the verb that Matilda repeatedly uses when saying they were re-writing "Great Expectations" after the original copy was destroyed?
Retrieve.
How is guilt a theme that occurs within "Mr. Pip"?
Matilda feels guilt for surviving after seeing what her mother goes through to protect her.
Name THREE of the four narrative structures used in "Mr. Pip".
1. Bildungsroman
2. Simple Sentences.
3. First Person Narration (past tense) - Matilda
4. Lack of chapters - recounting one long story.
What does Joseph Laimo give Matilda to make up for not seeing her for four years?
Four birthday cakes.
In what object does Dolores hide "The Great Expectations" novel?
In a sleeping mat.
What does Dolores compare faith to (through a simile)?
Faith is like oxygen.
What does Matilda compare collaborate storytelling to?
The village's collaborative fishing practices. Both give the village life and sustenance.
How is foreshadowing seen in "Mr. Pip"?
1. Early violence like the dog being killed that highlights the gruesome nature of the war that is about to get worse.
2. The setting often described with aspects of the war e.g. the navy boats patrolling out at sea.
3. Grace Watts and her move overseas filled with trauma, foreshadows what happens to Matilda.
What makes Matilda heal from her resentment of her father leaving for Townsville to work in the mines?
She realises that like Pip in "Great Expectations", he needed to choose his own path.
What is the cause of the Bougainville civil war?
The start up of mines in Bougainville, owned by Australia and run by the government of Papua New Guinea.
Finish this quote (Matilda describing a Red Skin officer): "He was tired of being who he was: tired of his job, tired of this island..."
"He was tired of being who he was: tired of his job, tired of this island, of us, and of the responsibility he carried.”
What are the two missing words in this quote? "By now it was also clear that the _______ had forgotten us."
Dolores says this.
"By now it was also clear that the white world had forgotten us."
Who is the fish and the shark Matilda is talking about when using this metaphor?
"We were that shoal of petrified fish that a shark circles."
Fish: the kids at the school
Shark: Dolores talking to the kids about religion and faith.
Who is Sam?
The young boy who is a rebel soldier. He finds safety in hiding in the village when he is very sick and hurt from the war. Gilbert's father however, takes him out to sea and comes back without him, perhaps to protect the village from what would happen if the Red Skins found him hiding there.
When the black dog is killed in the village, what TWO elements of the setting does the narrator personify to emphasise the shock?
The sun and the palm trees.
Complete the next sentence in this quote by Matilda: "I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories like these. It feels wrong to want to forget..."
"I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories like these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps that is why we write things down, so we can move on.”
What is the highest point of Maslow's Hierarchy called? Remember, this is something that the rebels and red skins would struggle to get to as their basic needs are so lacking.
Self-actualization. The desire to become the most that one could be.
Why is it ironic (IRONY) that the villagers see Mr. Watts as different to them?
He chooses to stay when the other white people leave the island. He does not use his white privilege to escape as the other white people on the island do as the island is his home and he chooses to be a part of the village.