2. What is the name of the children's verse that implies if Hagar had the wings of an angel or a crow, she could fly up high and spit on the people below?

3. What did Bram do after the harvest was over?

4. After possibly embarrassing Doris at Dr. Corby's office by talking to loud, what does Hagar promise to do?

5. Since Marvin manages her money, what money does Hagar plan to use to get to Shadow Point, ?

Short Essay Questions

1. Comment on the irony that the stone angel was "doubly blind."

2. At the nursing home, Hagar thinks she sees someone she knows. Why is this significant?

3. Hagar's father's comments, as well as Lottie Dreiser's about Bramptom Shipley, only seem to fuel Hagar's idea to be with him. Why do you think that is?

4. Hagar is very attached to her things in the house. Describe a few of them.

5. In Chapter 5, it is mentioned how Hagar takes action to affect her life, one time in the present and one in her past. What were those two instances?

6. Do you think Hagar's feelings about going to the nursing home are similar to other elderly people? Why or why not?

7. How is Hagar's emotional restraint again depicted in Chapter 4?

8. Why do you think Hagar tells her employer, Mr. Oatley, her husband died?

9. What is the role reversal that takes place between Hagar and Lottie Drieser?

10. In Chapter 2, Hagar's father reaches out his hand to her with heartfelt emotion. However, she rejects him both times. Why do you think that is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It is said that pride is Hagar's downfall. Site several examples. Was she prideful in her dress, speech, and/or attitude? How did she treat the people around her?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast how Hagar views John and Marvin at birth, as children, and as men. Describe how John and Marvin really are, and how Hagars blindness in symbolic to the stone angel's.