Ch11-13

Question 1

What happens after Weber and killing Carlo?

Answer 1

• Velisarios brings Corelli to Dr Iannis’s house, where bullets are removed from his body
• Velisarios, the doctor and Pelagia find Carlo’s body and bury it with a simple ceremony
• When he recovers, and with Bunny Warren’s help, Corelli escapes from the island in a boat
• In spite of Corelli’s promise to come back, Pelagia feels empty and devastated.

Question 2

What happens after 1944, when the Germans are ordered to leave the island

Answer 2

• the Greek Communists, known as the EAM (the former ELAS), advance against the fascists and say that anybody who is not with them, is against them
• Dr Iannis, suspected of having fascist ideas, is kidnapped, and Pelagia, now alone, shares her days and sorrows with Drosoula, Mandras’s mother

Question 3

What happens with Mandras?

Answer 3

• Mandras, who is now a member of the EAM, returns to the island, resentful and aggressive
• In his anger, he tries to rape Pelagia, and she shoots him in his shoulder
• When Drosoula arrives, she curses him for what he has become
• Shattered, Mandras drowns himself in the sea

Question 4

What does Dr Iannis see after he returns form ELAS?

Answer 4

• Dr Iannis returns two years later, broken and speechless, and finds a girl in his house, Antonia
• She had been abandoned at his door during his absence, and Drosoula and Pelagia had adopted her
• She could have been the daughter of a German, Italian or Greek father, but she never finds out.

Question 5

What happened when in 1949 the national government regained power?

Answer 5

-Pelagia and her father have switched roles and now
he helps her assist the sick and wounded
-The villagers find them an odd family, and Pelagia develops a belief in ghosts, since she sees Antonio come every year and disappear before her eyes