Solar Storms: Chapter 15 and 16

Where is the Fat Eater's territory?

The settlement around the hill of a little church

Why are some of the people from the Fat Eaters despondent?

Their land is taken away. They turn to alcohol or death for relief

Why DR despair?

No more animals, clans, landmarks, sturgeon or water. Most trees were now sawdust

Where does the resettled Fat Eaters live?

In shacks with Coke and candy machines or in the huts of the military who used the area as a bombing range.

The better places were occupied by the oil people and the loggers

What murder was being done in the land of the Fat Eaters?

Murder of the soul

What did DR thought would give the Fat Eaters their willingness to live back?

Protesting.

What did both AW and DR crave? What was Bush doing at the time?

Hostess chocolate cupcakes, she was attending a town meeting.

What color is Mika?

He is yellow

What did Tulik give DR?

Half a Spam sandwich

How was Tulik related to Ek?

He was her cousin

How did Tulik identify DR?

Corn person, Ek's girl

How is Tulik related to Ek?

He is Ek's cousin

What was the name on Tulik's shirt

Eddie Bauer

After AW left Eddie Bauer and DR, where did she go?

On the boardwalk, where she wanted to swim, but it was all mud and she lost a shoe and the earth was trying to swallow her.

When she got to the lake, it was black and cold. She saw her own body as if from a distance, an unwavering flame, floating in freedom.

How did the people of Two Town react to Angel being Hannah's daughter?

1. Lampier said nothing but her eyes betrayed her.

2. They would say a few words in the old language, and be silent

Who is Eho?

Woman keeper of animals who almost drowned making a pact with the mother of water for all life. She fell in love with a whale but had to go back to land and die there.

What did the Great Spirit command?

People had to take care of animals.

What day was it when AW met HW again?

Sunday

Why did Angel think it was good that Bush wasn't there to meet HW?

Because she thinks that Bush will still battle the forces inside Hannah.

What did HW want to say to AW?

That she never hit her (technically true, just teeth and hot wire)

What did HW say to AW that was ironic, and that later made her laugh?

That she was fat (because she was much too skinny)

When HW and AW are talking, what does DR hear?

A baby crying

What Anger did Angel feel towards Hannah?

A futile anger that she kept inside herself because it had nowhere to go.

How much time passed between Angel meeting Hannah and Hannah dying?

2 weeks

Why were they evicted from teh Lampiers

Because too many people in too small an area, (but really because Bush is being an activist)

Tulik's house is surrounded by...

Whale bone fence

Tulik's house is compared to

Pangea

Tulik's house is what color

brown wood (once painted white)

What was on one of the windows of Tulik's house

A globe, for news andd earthquakes

Who is Tulik's grandson?

Calvin

Who did Tulik allow to be messy?

Mika, the offspring of 2 of his one-time favorite dogs

After moving to Tulik's house, what did AW sleep with?

AI's coat, which gave her dreams that she wrote down

Who said "Always there was balance" and what was the context?

Tulik, talking about reading about earthquakes and aftershocks on the other side of the world

What did Tulik do and what was he good at?

He was a tribal judge, and although he was snow-blind, he is good at hunting.

Good at

assessment of things and people

AW remembers who , always, as the first time she met her? Describe her

Auntie

- trying to quit smoking, quilting

- red cotton sweater

- tall

- tight jeans

- lost things

- medicine in white doeskin

Using what material to make a bag was considered offensive to animals?

Beaver's tail

How did Bush and Auntie seem childish to Angel?

They were both so idealistic, intolerant of any injustice.

Who had a "no-problem" smile, according to Angel?

Tulik

Sleeping with the bear coat gave Angel what?

Dreams

Tulik: "Only when a person gets in touch with the land......"

he becomes strong/a human being

What does Husk call AI?

One

How much did LaRue buy the Raven for?

$125

When would Husk arrive?

The fifth

What event in Adams' Rib did Husk mention in his letter?

Ice storm close to summer.

What does Tulik appraise well?

People (drunk, whether child or not, boy or girl), furs(except Wolverine) and weather patterns

In 1973, what was the top cost for a fur?

$30

$50 fur

1948, when winter came in early and beavers were scarce so the native trappers overtrapped

The fur under the $50 fur

1936, when a nearby village was so hungry they went out hunting with only rotted meat and sinews. They went north to the place where beavers built stone walls and were eaten by hungry wolves

What is the $50 fur coat equal to?

2 lynx coats

What word was not to be said/

Starvation, except in English and French

How did Beavers shape the world?

Trees in sky, they brought down, the earth was all water but they brought up the ground and broke the ice.

They also made men and made a pact with them: they would provide them with waterfowl, animals and fish, while men have to take care of the world and talk to the gods and creation

What breakfast at tulik's

Coffee with greasy bread and margarine btuter

What did DR dream that was funny

that she was a lounge singer

What did AW dream?

That HW died (snowshoe on wall, slope), and that there was a storm of ice pellets.

How much did it cost to send AW to Hardy?

$26, nearly all that Tulik had

Why did Bush not understand why AW had to go alone?

Because she was from the south and the land excluded her

What did Mikky and AW see on the way?

They stopped at a village for mail and saw wolves next to the ribcage of a deer

How far did AW have to walk to HW's

4 miles`

On the walk to Hannah's what worried Angel?

One of the houses was burning, she thought it maybe was Hannah's

After the plane left, AW felt

abandoned

What did Hannah's house smell like/

lard, tea, cyanide

What did AW see that were remnants of man in her 4 mile wa;k to HW's? What did she hear?

She saw

1. a rusted bulldozer

2. a burnt-out area

3. cut trees

4. military bombing practice

It had an overpowering silence.

How many rooms in Hannah's house/

One: there was a cloth partition

What did the man get AW to feed HW?

Venison and milk

Hannah's house, like her body,

had nothing to offer (except salt and some pieces of Wonder bread)

How old was Aurora/

7 months old

What did Hannah do for death?

She opened the door for it.

The man who stabbed HW was

dead

What women visited?

tribal, one of them had marrow butter

Hannah's story (Otto and Eron)

First Otto, but then he went to Mill town for work and never came back or wired money. So Hannah and Eron, who was a great hunter but lost after school told him everything he knows is wrong. He sees her carrying a small dead child, cold all the time, etc. etc. He eventually stabs himself

What is "one of the reasons" animals in New Hardy were gone?

The planes: they frightened animals to death and some of them drowned.

One of HW's children

ate blades and chewed glass

Which one of her children did Hannah hate the most and why?

She hated Angel worse because Angel looked like her.

By tribal law,

a person is to be allowed to die the way they wished

1936

Woman who was lovers with ice, who slept with winter, and 2 brothers who killed her

The medicine man of Two-Town was a _____

apprentice

Even _____ didn't want HW and feared her

death

How did the 1936 woman "become lovers" with the winter?/

one winter, it was cold and people were starving, so she ate the family members who had already died from the cold and starvation.

Why does AW put Aurora outside when Hannah dies?

Because AW does not want Aurora to catch the spirits of HW in case they pass on to another person when she died.

How was Hannah's death described?

As a seed growing in her, inhabiting parts of her until it engulfed the whole.

What allowed AW to finally know HW

Death

After HW's death,

AW felt like a woman, full and alive. She made up her mind to love in whatever way she could

HW tried to consume AW back into her own body, the way _____

fire burns itself away, uses itself as fuel

What was AW's beginning?

HW's loneliness and desperation

Nothing at Hardy's store was

fresh

Aurora liked to be

walked (she slept while AW walked and cried when she stopped)

Who dug the grave for HW?

Saul

How did AW describe the town of New Hardy?

That it was meant to be temporary and just happened to be permanent.

Funeral of Hw

Bush and AW washed her with warm water and soap, then covered with newspaper then with cloth partition

At Hardy, everything looked ______

Temporary, permanent only by accident

Sometimes, when HW was young, she would talk about what?

stars

What did the 2 women who made margarine and butter make?

They made fish and lard soup

In the old days, how was burial?

Above ground

What did people think Wolverine was?

1. Human returned to animal form

2. An animal inhabiting human skin

What does AW wonder about Wolverine?

If he stole HW

What did HW steal from AW?

The frog amber

For how long would no one live near HW?

8 yaers (it will get flooded after)

What did Bush trade for her furs?

$30 each and 2 cured hams and levis

How did Bush get to Hardy?

She paid Mikky $100 for a special trip

Tulik's dog remembers

its wolf blood