Ch1-4

Question 1

What happens in the first paragraph?

Answer 1

• When Megalo Velisarios gave a performance, he accidentally hurts Mandras, a local fisherman
• Mandras lead him to the house of the local doctor, Iannis, and to the doctor’s daughter, Pelagia.
• war reaches Greece, Mandras leaves to the front and Pelagia receives no answer from him to her letters and thinks that he doesn’t love her anymore.
• when Mandras returns, so dirty and hurt that she does not recognize him, Pelagia learns that he has not answered her letters because he can’t read or write.

Question 2

What happens in the second paragraph?

Answer 2

• Italian troops are sent to Albania as part of a plan to attack Greece
• Carlo Guercio is a homosexual who doesn’t dare admit his sexual condition for fear of rejection
• He joins the army and falls in love with Francesco, a soldier from Genoa, who will never know about Carlo’s love.
• Together, they march from Albania to Athens, suffer extreme cold and hunger and are defeated by the Greeks
• Francesco dies, and some of the soldiers are saved when a German invasion forces the Greeks to fight on two fronts.