Ch5-8 Flashcards
1
Q
What happens in the first paragraph?
A
- Mandras recovers and Pelagia feels increasingly guilty
- On 30 April 1941, the Italians arrive in Cephallonia and the villagers are ordered to provide them with accommodation
- Captain Corelli stays at Dr Iannis’s house
- His character, his music and his sensitivity gradually win Pelagia’s love
- During his stay at Iannis’s house, Corelli organizes an opera group, La Scala. Günter Weber, a German soldier with a Nazi conviction of superiority, joins the group
2
Q
Which organization does Mandras join?
A
- joins ELAS,a Communist group of freedom fighters under the leadership of Hector
- With this group, his resentfulness finds expression and he becomes a cruel murderer and rapist in the name of historical necessity
3
Q
Who is Bunny Warren?
A
- a British spy, turns up and is helped by Dr Iannis
- knows ancient greece
- smuggles Corelli off of the island
- he is murdered by ELAS during the Greek Civil War
4
Q
What happens with the love between Pelagia and Corelli?
A
- Both Pelagia and Corelli are aware of the cost that an affair with a member of an occupying force could have for a Greek girl engaged to a local fisherman who is away fighting the invasion
- their love stays platonic while they make plans for an after-war marriage
