Comprehension Questions

by Christine Hume

Christine Hume

What kind of phantom is the ship?
Where does the girl hide her great distances?
Accordingly, what is the rate to multiply by to find the intense
sensitivity of minor characters?
How do the men abandon the ship?
Why do they trouble the forest with their strange butterflies and
huge suns full of complete daylight?
What role does the dog play in developing catastrophe?
If the setting permitted biological time, would red shift through
the captain’s mirage?
What dark authority lurks among the unpruned spruce?
Whose foreshadowing crawls out and what sets it off?
Do you believe the wave is not a girl in furs?
Is this a comedy or a tragedy of secret motions?
Why should a zephyr so rarely intervene?
Does the stormy girl’s beauty suggest something about the
captain?
Why do his arrows ricochet wildly just before the target?
Meanwhile, what does the girl’s fear become when she turns
around?
Which constellation best fits the story?
Though the captain arrests the ice horse, what fantasy freezes
the dark around him?
When does it matter? When can you deceive?
Why do the men take the tusk and shank inside?
Does the narrator gain sight by his frustrations, humiliation,
torture, and debt?
Which prophesies help the girl court the ship?
Is anything more grotesque than the face of human ecstasy?

From: 
Alaskaphrenia





Last updated December 26, 2022