Kirsten

Question 1

Adjectives

Answer 1

• Strong
• Passionate
• Brave
• Courageous
• Strong-willed
• Resilient
• Loyal and committed friend
• Friendly
• Morality
• Commitment to human values

Question 2

• This line allows the reader to consider the impacts of a society upon a person and how the pandemic perhaps revealed the true characters of many people.

Answer 2

• she looked like someone who’d been well cared for and coddled all her life… would grow up to be…unadventurous and well- groomed.”

Question 3

The values of acting

Answer 3

“She never feels more alive than at these moments, when onstage she fears nothing”
“her soul pulling upwards”
“It’s the thing {acting} I love to do most in the world” Kirsten pg 8 pre the collapse

Question 4

Memories

Answer 4

“Does knowing these things make them more or less happy”
“I can’t remember the worst of it” -pg 195
“the more you remember the more you lost” -pg 195

Question 5

Arthur

Answer 5

“she’d memorised the details of every [magazine clipping of Arthur]”

Question 6

Brother

Answer 6

“and then he died I was there by myself” – pg 112

Question 7

Kirsten talking to August after The Prophet’s death

Answer 7

“If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.”

Question 8

Listen talking to Diallo about different towns

Answer 8

Some towns … want to talk about what happened, about the past. Other towns, discussion of the past is discouraged.

Question 9

Kirsten’s performance in the role of Titania. The Symphony’s goal is to remind people that such beauty still exists, even after the loss of almost everything else.

Answer 9

“What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.”