The Great Divorce Chapter 1-4

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Chapter 1
The Great Divorce
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Why did the narrator go join the line of people
Because he felt attached. The whole town seem to be empty. Wants to do what other people do.
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Queue
Line of people
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Describe the attitude of the other people who are waiting in line?
Strange rude, weird behavior, mean
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Where are the people on the bus going?
Don't know yet, leaving a town
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What't so special about this bus? (what can it do that most buses cant?)
It can fly (its a flying bus)
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Chapter 2
The Great Divorce
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Narrator
Person telling the story
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Conscientious
person who refuses to work for military/fight in war due to personal beliefs
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Monogamic
about the practice of monogamy (marriage committed to 1 person)
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Uncogenial
unfriendly, unwelcoming
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Innocuous
not harmful
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What do we know about the man the narrator is talking to in chapter 2
treats badly by a girl, he's a poetic, jumps under a train
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Chapter Three
The Great Divorce
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Vituperation
offensive language
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Omibus
large bus/vehicle carrying many passenger
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The pip
Depression or creepy feeling
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How does the narrator describe the passengers once they get off the bus and the light hits them?
Fully transparent, fact ghost - when the light hit them
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What does the narrator compare to "Dirt on a window panne?"
Compares the ghost to dirt on a windowpane
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What does the narrator say about time and age in this place?
no sense of time couldn't put an age on them
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Chapter 4
Great Divorce
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Unsubstantial
not solid or not based on facts/reality
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Hans Andersen
Author of fairy tales like "the little mermaid"
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Jocund
cheerful
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Why is the narrator envious of the bird?
It's real bird and the narrator feels like he isn't in the place
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How did "poor jack" die?
he was murdered by the man who is talking to the big ghost
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impudence
Bold (in a rude way) audacity
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entreated
begged; pleaded, asked earnestly
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what kind of person does the big man (big ghost) think he is?
he is a descent chap
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What does the other person say the kind of big ghost was?
you weren't a descent man, you didn't do your best
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why doesn't the big ghost want to stay in the new place
rather be curse than be there and wats to go home, having conflict with the man, talks about his rights but doesn't feel like he was treated fair