INSTALACIÓN DE VAPOR

Using the details from the novel that you have studied answer the following questions.

1. Write about a character that you detest. Give textual evidence to support your answer.

2. In your opinion, what is the main theme of the ‘The Pearl’.

3. What is the most important moral value learnt in the novel?

4. Identify a significant event in the novel and explain how it contributes to the development of the plot. Use textual evidence to support your answer.

5. What is the significance of the title to the novel?

6. Write about a theme that has taught you an important lesson. Give textual evidence.

7. Identify a symbol that is present in the novel and discuss its significance. Support with textual evidence.

8. Life is full of hopes and dreams. Explain how this is highlighted in the novel.

9. Choose an incident in the novel which changes the lives of the characters. Elaborate with close reference to the text.

10. Explain some conflicts that the main character had to face. How did the character cope?

11. Describe how the main character is a changed person in the end of the novel. Support with textual evidence.

12. The main character in the novel is an ambitious person. Do you agree?

Provide your reasons based on textual evidence.

13. Greed is evil. How is it shown in the novel you have read.

14. Describe the element of greed in the characters with close reference to the text.

15. Discuss the social setting or background of the novel. How has it influenced the characters.

16. Compare and contrast two different characters in the novel with reference to the text.

17. An important or significant event can change the main character. How does this come across in the novel you have read?

18. What lesson about life did you learn from the novel?

19. Choose a message from the novel that you think is important to be shared.

20. Which character in the novel would be a good role model? Give reasons to support your answer with close reference to the text.

21. Choose an event that affects the life of the main character of the story that you have studied. With close reference to the text, describe how his/her life is affected.

22. Explain how the novel portrays the theme of family love. Give examples from the novel.

23. What is the most important event in the story.

24. The event you dislike the most.

25. Choose a character whom you have learned most from. Using details from the short story that you have studied, write about the lessons that you have learned from him/her.

26. Choose an event which is sad or happy. Explain how this event has affected a character in the story.

27. “Life is full of challenges and hardships”. From the novel that you have learnt, describe how a character overcomes the challenges land hardships in his /her life. Support your answer with close reference to the text.

28 State an important decision made by one of the main characters in the novel and show how the decision changed his/her life. Support your answer with close reference to the text.

29. Choose a character in the story who has made sacrifices for his or her family. Describe in detail the sacrifices that have been made. Support your answer with close reference to the text.

30. Describe how other characters in the novel you have read affected the main character’s positive and negative characteristics. Give reasons for your answer with close reference to the text.

31 Give a detailed account of lessons that you have learnt from a character in the novel you have studied. Support your answer with close reference to the text.

32 If you could change the ending of the story, how would you change it?

Give reasons for your choice, with close reference to the text.

33. Write about the dream(s) of the main character and what he/she does to fulfil the dream(s). Support your answer with close reference to the text.

34. Using the details from the novel that you have studied, choose a character in the novel whom you think sacrifice a lot for the family explain why you choose him/her. Support your answer with close reference to the text.

35. Using the details from the novel that you have studied, state an event which you feel should not have happened explain why you think the event should not have happened. Support you answer with close reference to the text

36. “Being supportive keeps a family together”.

From the novel that you have read, describe how one of the characters shows this support. Write your answer with close reference to the text.

37 Based on the novel you have read, describe one event that has touched your feelings. Give reasons for your choice. Support your answer with close reference to the text.

38 “Man is greedy for material wealth.” Show how this is evident in the novel you have read. Support your answer with close reference to the text.

39. Bravery is much highlighted in many events of the novel. With close reference to the text, discuss how bravery affects the life of a main character in the story.

40 What is the significance of the title to the story? Write your explanation with close reference to the text.