Fire on the Mountain (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE English Literature): Flashcards
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Fill in the gap: "she paced the house, ＿＿＿＿＿"
Narrator, Part 1, Chapter 9
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Fill in the gap: "she paced the house, ＿＿＿＿＿"
Narrator, Part 1, Chapter 9
Answer: "she paced the house, proprietorially"
Fill in the gap: "Rainy days are ＿＿＿＿＿ days!"
Nanda, Part 2, Chapter 16
Answer: "Rainy days are lily days!"
Fill in the gap: "how ＿＿＿＿＿ our upbringing made us, Nanda"
Ila Das, Part 3, Chapter 7
Answer: "how helpless our upbringing made us, Nanda"
Fill in the gap: "But the line was cut suddenly as a ＿＿＿＿＿ is cut"
Narrator, Part 3, Chapter 5
Answer: "But the line was cut suddenly as a thread is cut"
Key quote: "She felt like the worm herself, she winced at its mutilation"
Narrator (Nanda), Part 1, Chapter 6
Analysis
The simile presents Nanda as a helpless victim, wincing as if she herself is being hurt. Her self-pity reveals how fragile her solitude has made her.
Key quote: "When a woman lives alone, her house should be extremely dilapidated"
Extract from 'When a Woman Lives Alone', Part 1, Chapter 8
Analysis
There is irony in Nanda needing a book to teach her how to live alone. It exposes her solitude as a performance rather than something natural to her.
Key quote: "She ignored her so calmly, so totally that it made Nanda Kaul breathless"
Narrator, Part 2, Chapter 4
Analysis
Raka's genuine indifference contrasts with Nanda's forced isolation. The child truly has the detachment that Nanda only pretends to have.
Key quote: "One might just as well try to become young again"
Nanda, Part 2, Chapter 19
Analysis
Nanda accepts that the past cannot be recovered. Her exaggerated memories are a way of coping that hides her trauma.
Key quote: "merely a brave, flawed experiment"
Narrator (Nanda), Part 2, Chapter 4
Analysis
Nanda judges her own retreat as a 'flawed experiment' that failed. Admitting this forces her to face her unhealed past and the cost of survival.
Key quote: "to rouse herself and make another try at being a successful diplomat's wife"
Narrator (Asha's letter), Part 1, Chapter 4
Analysis
Even her own mother reduces Tara to a supporting role as a 'diplomat's wife'. It shows how patriarchal class values are passed down through the generations.
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