Ocean, Sea Worksheet #2 & VOCAB
Answer these questions in about 5 sentences. Show deep understanding of the text.
Look up short defintions of the VOCAB on the next page.
1. Everyone seems unable to finish a task: paint the sea, find the edges of the ocean,
cool the passions of adultery, keep a young girl alive, and start living a full life,
kill a woman. What keeps them from moving on?
2. Speculate on who the guest in the seventh room is and his/her function.
3. Book 2: the story of Andre Savigny (Savage??) opens it. Thomas Adams is his
nemesis, as Therese, Thomas’s lover, was murdered by Savigny. What purpose do
these two characters, with their interlocking motives, dialogue, and pursuit of evil,
serve in the book?
4. While the children all attempt to lure the ships onto the rocks during the storm,
Elisewin slips into Adams’ room and makes love to him. This scene is told in one
long sentence from 154-156. What is the connection between the sea, the human
body, sex (orgasm?) and identity?
5. Elisewin ends up living with Langlais for 5 years, and tells him all of Thomas
Adams’ stories about Timbuktu and the far reaches of the earth. Why can
characters read each other’s minds and speak for one another?
VOCAB:
Malaise
Paradoxical
Doltish
Sotto Voce
Copironus (described in the book)
Evanescent
Interstices
Ineffable
Hosanna
Lassitude
Sutler
Alleviation
Sagacious
Phonemes
Brazier
Unequivocal