What would it be like to watch the bombing of Bedford on TV as we sat in our Bedford homes? Would we be like the characters in the book and stick it out? Go to coffee houses? I hope it never happens, but I wonder how we'd all react. Would we make signs of protest? Would we unite to save on of the stables full of horses in the area?
Disturbing images from Zora and the narrator's experiences in the hospital. How is it possible to deal with that level of destruction to the human body?
When telling of how crippled animals are treated in the United States, the narrator says, "They're self-righting." What does she mean by this statement?
On p. 283, the narrator pontificates about the differing natures of war. What might this reflect about the author's views of war?
Review the three sections where the narrator's grandfather starts his stories about the deathless man. Do the descriptions of the grandfather's actions as he begins each part of the story reveal anything?
On the bottom of p. 284, the grandfather tells about the religious differences between he and his wife. What point is he making here?
It just occurred to me to ask this, though I have wondered it throughout the story: why does the deathless man always ask for water?
What is narghile? tumbak?
Was the woman whom the deathless man was with the same woman who abandoned Luka on his wedding day?
Why do you think the deathless man's favorite story from
The Jungle Book is Rikki Tikki Tavi's story?
The deathless man says the grandfather will die with suddenness, but we know that he suffers for quite some time before his death. How does this make sense?
Is there any significance in the death of the zoo tiger?
What is the deathless man suggesting when he tells the narrator's grandfather to break the cup?
