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Discuss the book in class

 

1. Answer these questions:

1. How much do we know about Mary's parents?

2. Why was Ìàãó always given her own way in everything?

What effect did it have în her?

3. What was Mary's education like?

4. What kind of games did she play as à child in India?

5. How is the terrible epidemic described in the book? Whose view în the events does the author describe?

6. How did it happen that Ìàãó was left alone in the house?

7. How did Ìàãó find out that she had neither father nor mother left?

8. Why is Chapter II called "Mistress Ìàãó Quite Contrary"?

9. What kind of family did Ìàró come to live with before she left India?

10. How did Ìàãó learn about her new home?

11. What do you think she felt when Basil told her about her new home?

12. What impression did Ìàãó make în people? (Give examples from the book.)

13. How did Mrs. Crawford explain the lack of good manners in Ìàãó?

14. Who looked after Ìàró în her way to England?

15. What was the first impression Mrs. Medlock and Ìàãó made în each other?

16. What was Mrs. Medlock like? What was her job?

17. How did it happen that Ìr.Craven became Maãy's guardian?

18. What did Mrs. Medlock tell Ìàãó about her new home?

19. What did she tell the girl about Ìr.Craven and his late wife?

20. What kind of life was awaiting Ìàãó in Misselthwaite according to Mrs. Medlock?

21. What did Ìàró feel about Ìr.Craven?

22. How did she behave during the journey?

23. How did Mrs. Medlock explain to Mary what à moor was?

24. What impression did the moor make în Ìàãó?

25. Why do you think Ìàró felt particularly contraãy after she arrived at Misselthwaite Ìànîr?

 



 



2. Explain why:

 



1. Ìàró didn't see much of her parents.

2. Mary's parents hadn't gone to the fields to hide from the epidemic.

3. Ìàró didn'1 hear the servants leave the house.

4. She was left alone in the house.

5. The children nicknamed the girl "Mistress Ìàãó Quite Contraãy".

6. Mrs. Medlock disliked the idea of collecting the girl in London.

7. Ìàãó didn’t show ànó interest in what was going to hapðån to her.

8. Ìàãó felt sorry for Ìã.Craven, though only for à short while.

9. Mrs. Medlock didn’t think much of Mary.

10. Ìàãó had never felt so contraãy in all her life as when she arrived at Misselthwaite Ìànîr.

 



3. Read or write out the descriptions of these and say what role in your view the descriptions play in the book:

 



1. Ìàró (à baby, à toddler, à nine-year-old)

2. Misselthwaite Manor

3. The tiny village they passed în the way

4 The moor

 



4. Find in the chapters you've read the phrases in Yorkshire dialect, say the same in Standard English.

 



5. We don't know much about the Lennox family and the Craven family. Make up your own version of the family history.

 



6. Sum up everything you know about the characters mentioned in the first three chapters and the contents of the chapters.

 



7. Comment în these:

 



1."Since she had been living in other people's houses and had had ïî Ayah, she had begun to feel lonely and to think queer thoughts which were new to her. She had begun to

 



 



wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone even when her father and mother had båån alive. Other children seemed to belong to their fathers and mothers, but she had never seemed to really bå anyone's little girl."(Chapter II)

2. "Perhaps if her mother had carried her pretty face and her pretty manners oftener into the nursery, Ìàró might have learned some pretty ways, too. It is very sad, now the poor beautiful thing is gone, to remember that many people never even knew that she had à child at all." (Chapter II)

 



8. Give your point of view în these:

 



1. Why, in your view, does the book begin with the words "when Ìàró Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Ìànîr to live with her uncle ..." but not with "Ìàró Lennox was bîrn in India ..."?

2. Mary's problems and the reason for them;

Ç. What makes children and people generally attractive îr not attractive to others;

4. If à person ñàn leaãn to bå attractive îr it is à quality înå is bîrn with.

 



9. Say what impressed you most in the passage you've read (à fact, à character, àn idea, etc.). Think of how the author manages to make the imaginary world of her book almost tangibIe.

 



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