STONE ANGEL CHAPTER 1

1) What do we learn about the narrator's mother in the opening of the novel?

The narrator`s (Hagar) mother had died in childbirth. Her tombstone is a stone angel with big wings, in the winter that are pitted by the snow, and in summer by the blown grit.

2) Where does the narrator grow up?

The narrator grows up in Manawaka, Manitoba. It is a fictional town used in a lot of Margaret Laurence novels.

3) How would you describe Hagar as she explains what she's like at ninety (pp.

5-6)

At the age of ninety, Hagar has an good memory for her age. She also smokes. Her son Marvin, and daughter Doris take care of her. She is not aloud to have a lock on her door, they have probably had incedents where they have had to get to her quickly. She is extremely judgmental. She is very similar with her father, very smart, strong willed, witty, and their is some resentment.

4) What kind of a relationship did she have with her father?

Her father wishes her brothers were as smart as her, or that she was male, because in this time males were dominant and could do more.

5) Explain what we learn about Mr. Currie and Hagar from the foot ruler incident.

She is very stubborn and wins the foot ruler incident. GET MORE INFO ON THIS QUESTION.

6) Where do the Curries come from?

The father is from Scotland, they are Scottish. Scottish people are very strong willed and the wealthy people think they are much better.

7) What do we learn about Mr. Currie from his involvement with the new church?

We learn that Mr. Currie was a main big donation of the church. He said that they said his and ... name's first, because they must have donated the most. He also likes to be proud.

8) How do you explain Mr. Currie's remark "Consumption? That's contagious, isn't

it? Well, the Lord works in wondrous ways His will to perform. "

Mr. Currie does not care about her dying, he is thinking "wow, if we had actually spent time together, maybe I could have been affected too." Thus she was unwilling, so he did not get shot down in his own mind and it saved him from a nasty contagious death.

9) Why won't Matt's father allow him to go hunting with Jules Tonnerre?

He is not aloud to go because he thinks he will get hurt, Jules Tonnerre is not as rich and has some native blood in him. He is half Nattee. Racism is another flaw in Mr. Currie's character.

10) How does Dan die and what do we learn about Hagar by her refusal to put on

the old plaid shawl and comfort Dan?

Dan becomes gravely ill with pneumonia, Hagar and Matt know he will not survive that much lover. She refuses to put on the shawl to pretend to be the mother he calls, is because she says, " I'm not a bit like her" because her Mom was weak and she does not want to be like her. Matt ends up getting the job done.

11) What is Lottie able to do that Hagar is not, in the town dump?

Partly hatched little baby chicks, half broken. Lottie then kills them, which Hagar can not do. She basically Euthanize's them. Hagar will not go near them though.

12) Which characters do you associate with Hagar's past and which do you associate with

her present?

The characters I see are Jason, Matt, Dan, her father, Auntie Doll, Lottie, Charolette. In the future, Marvin, Doris.