The Telegram Flashcards
1
Q
Themes
A
- life in a small rural community
- loss
- sacrifice
- the destructiveness of war
- prejudice
- changing relationship
2
Q
Similarities between two characters
A
- similar age
- live near each other
- church
- love of sons
- prejudiced
3
Q
The two women
A
“they where like two birds, one a fat domestic bird perhaps, the other …. more like a buzzard”
4
Q
War
A
“it came on them as a strange plague”
5
Q
Telegram
A
“people began to think of the telegram as a strange missile”
“it was a weapon”
6
Q
Thin women
A
“when did you see me with good clothes in the church?”
“I made sacrifices to have my son educated”
“But most of them were large fat and lazy”
“but the thin women didn’t gossip much”
7
Q
Fat women
A
“she was a native”
“she began to mutter a prayer over and over”
“she didn’t want to cry in front of that women, that foreigner”
“sending her son to university why did she want to be better than everyone else?”
