Annie John Questions

FIGURES IN THE DISTANCE

1) This chapter is named Figures in the Distance as it relates to Annies
obsession with death, when she sees the figures of the dead that have
come back from a distance.
2) Annie John and her friends are scared of death due to her belief that the
dead come back to haunt the living. This is a fear that is common in many
cultures throughout the world, Scandinavian culture or Tibetan culture for
example.
3) After Naldas death, Annie begins to look at her mothers hands differently
as her mother is the one who cleaned her body and prepared it for the
funeral.
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5) Annie believes that it is shameful for Sonia that her mother has died as, in
her mind, growing up with parents is essential for any person, and now
that Sonia has lost her mother, she is changed and does not fill the social
norm.
6) Annie begins to go to funerals as her fear of death quickly turns into a
morbid curiosity of death. She is so eager to attend the humpbacked girls
funeral as this is the funeral of someone she knew, and not an unknown
person, which she has seen in her previous funeral visits.
THE CIRCLING HAND
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