Telegram

Question 1

tension

Answer 1

“o god save my son o god save my son o god save my son”
“so much a gift”
“she saw”
what it must have been like to be a window bringing up a son in a village not her own”
“discipline”
“but the thin woman hadn’t cried”

Question 2

conflict

Answer 2

"she was always putting on airs"
"no matter how hard you tried you could never like the thin woman"
"that woman, that foreigner"
"snobbish"
"fat and lazy"
"stupid"

Question 3

war

Answer 3

“strange missile”
“left desolation”
“strange plague”

Question 4

fat woman

Answer 4

"fat domestic bird"
"did you hear"
"spoke feverishly"
"she was a native"
"her mind was vague and diffused except when she was thinking about herself"

Question 5

parochialism

Answer 5

“foreigner”
“incomer”
“bringing up a son in a village not her own”

Question 6

thin woman

Answer 6

“more aquiline, more gaunt or to be precise more like a buzzard”
“she was ambitious”
“little finger elegantly curled in an irritating way”
“she were pecking away at something she had pecked at for many years”
“lips pressed… bloodless”
people think she is “weak and useless”
“where had she learned that self control”
“disciplined”

Question 7

elder

Answer 7

“somnambulistic wandering”

“kept himself to himself”