Stone Angel

The Stone Angel    Eng 4U

Literary Devices and Imagery: Group 1
attempt the dominant imagery and symbols in the novel, paying attention to how characters, events, and settings flow multiple levels of meaning. Look specifically at references to:
Biblical allusions
The prairie as a sort of desert
The use of time, flash pricker there argon 2 stories, essentially. What triggers the flashbacks?
The angel

Questions For Consideration:
         What does Hagar suggest about the dancers by her simile tumbleweed in a Viennese waltz?(pp45-47)
         What do you look the Stone Angel of the title refers to? This image or conception is carried throughout the novel. What does it represent in its various other appearances?
         How are the false values of Jason Currie suggested by the angels description?
         What do the references to superannuated Egypt add to the novel? (p.3,p.43,p.96,p.111)....in what sense might the young Hagar be seen as embalmed alive?
         Read the biblical story of Hagar.  What does wise(p) this story add to your understanding of the novel?  Find similarities and differences in the midst of the two Hagars.
         Look up Jacobs trickery of his father Isaac (genesis 27). How was Hagar, homogeneous Isaac, also mistaken in her sons?
         What is the general effect of the switches back and forth from the past to present?




         My bed is cold as winter(p.81) How does this paragraph serve as a connecting wrench for the whole novel?

The Stone Angel    Eng 4U

Themes:  Group 2
research the various themes in the Stone Angel by centering specifically on the following issues:
         discovery
         old age 
         beingness old
         nursing homes/facing death
         being stone & being free
         touching
         intolerance
forgiveness
pride
propriety

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