Till We Have Faces | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Glome - The small, impoverished kingdom located near the Shennit River in which most of the action of Till We Have Faces takes place.

Caphad - This city is sinking when its king offers his third daughter to the widowed northern King Trom in marriage to seal an alliance.

The Great Offering - A ritual of human sacrifice occasionally (rarely) demanded by the goddess Ungit to end her wrath against Glome.

The Greeklands - The Fox's homeland is, to Queen Orual's mind, a place of wisdom appreciating freedom of speech, history, art, philosophy,...
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