English story questions pt 3

• What is K’s talent?

  Painting
• Why were the boys on the beach during the storm?


  They wanted to explore.
• The wave swallowing K is an example of?

  personification
• How did the narrator react to the second wave?

  He was scared and tried to hide
• For how long has the seventh man not visited his home town?

  For about 40 years
• What was the sevenths man‘s fathers job?


  He was the town doctor
• What does the seventh man see inside the second wave?

  He sees K
• The story’s narrator is haunted by what?

  He is haunted by the guilt of not saving K
• What does the narrator think is more scary then fear itself?

  When we turn our backs to fear
• What details suggest that the natural disaster would be extremely dangerous?

  The way his parents prepared and also the aftermath
• “We’re in the eye of the storm”. What does the narrator compare the eye of the storm to?

  He compares it to an intermission
• Because the narrator could not deal with the events, he asked to what?

  To move
• What does the giant wave symbolize in this story?


  It represents his trauma and his fear
• After the tragedy of the typhoon, the adults failed to understand the narrators what?

  His mindset
• Why do the events happen in the past and not in the present?

  Because he reminiscing on how he managed to overcome his past
• How old was the narrator when the incident occurred?

  10 years old
• What were the weather conditions the day of the typhoon?

  It was very windy and a little rainy
• What was the relationship between the narrator and K?

  They were like brothers
• What precautions did the narrator and K take?

  Basically none besides when the wind picked up to leave
• Why did the narrator stay away from his hometown?

  He was scared K would hold a grudge for not saving him
• What triggered the narrator to return to his hometown?

  K’s paintings
• How did the town change?

  The town was completely different since it had been 40 years so his old house was no longer there or K’s either.
• What realization did K’s paintings give?

  The narrator noticed that K would never want to hurt him ever
• How did the narrator feel when he went back to the beach?

  He felt relieved and relaxed, mentally and physically
• Frail: physically weak
• Entranced: filled with wonder
• Delirium: state of mental confusion
• Sociable: able to enjoy the company of others
• Premonition: an unproven feeling that something specific will happen
• Permeate: to spread through an area
• Sentiment: the emotion behind something
• Reconciliation: the act if coming to an agreement