Chapter 5
1. Who is Ungit? What is she like? What do we learn about her from this chapter?
Chapter 6
2. Discuss each character’s reaction to the impending sacrifice of Psyche.
a. Discuss Redival’s response to Psyche’s impending death? What does she seem to be most concerned about?
b. What is the King’s response?
c. The Fox?
d. Orual?
e. Who is Bardia? What is he like?
Chapter 7
3. What is Psyche’s attitude toward those that have wronged her?
4. Discuss Orual’s attitude towards those that have wronged Psyche?
5. Which character do you think has the larger truth about life? Fox? Psyche? Orual?\
Chapter 8
6. Discuss Orual’s grief of Psyche’s loss. What are her physical and emotional reactions? Are they “normal” or understandable? (77-81)
7. In what ways do we see Orual share some of the same traits as the King and Redival? How do we see the “spirit” behind the following quote grow in the these chapters:
“I wanted to be a wife so that I could be her real mother. I wanted to be a boy so she could be in love with me. I wanted her to be my full sister instead of my hald sister. I wanted her to be a slave so that I could set her free and make her rich.” (23)
8. Is the Fox right when he says that the change of weather is “chance, cursed chance”? (85)
Chapter 9
9. In this chapter. Orual overhears Bardia saying something about her. What is it, and how does Orual respond to it?
10. As Orual and Bardia go up the mountain, Orual sees the beauty of the world around her and wants to delight in it. How does she respond to this delight? What do you think of that choice?
11. Bardia is a god-fearing man and would not wish to speak ill of the gods. But he says, “We are very near the bad part of the mountain—I mean the holy part” (100). Why might he describe the bad part and the holy part as the same?
12. “There, not six feet away, on the far side of the river, stood Psyche.” Chapter 9 ends with Orual’s encounter with Psyche. Make some predictions for chapter 10.
1. Who is Ungit? What is she like? What do we learn about her from this chapter?
Chapter 6
2. Discuss each character’s reaction to the impending sacrifice of Psyche.
a. Discuss Redival’s response to Psyche’s impending death? What does she seem to be most concerned about?
b. What is the King’s response?
c. The Fox?
d. Orual?
e. Who is Bardia? What is he like?
Chapter 7
3. What is Psyche’s attitude toward those that have wronged her?
4. Discuss Orual’s attitude towards those that have wronged Psyche?
5. Which character do you think has the larger truth about life? Fox? Psyche? Orual?\
Chapter 8
6. Discuss Orual’s grief of Psyche’s loss. What are her physical and emotional reactions? Are they “normal” or understandable? (77-81)
7. In what ways do we see Orual share some of the same traits as the King and Redival? How do we see the “spirit” behind the following quote grow in the these chapters:
“I wanted to be a wife so that I could be her real mother. I wanted to be a boy so she could be in love with me. I wanted her to be my full sister instead of my hald sister. I wanted her to be a slave so that I could set her free and make her rich.” (23)
8. Is the Fox right when he says that the change of weather is “chance, cursed chance”? (85)
Chapter 9
9. In this chapter. Orual overhears Bardia saying something about her. What is it, and how does Orual respond to it?
10. As Orual and Bardia go up the mountain, Orual sees the beauty of the world around her and wants to delight in it. How does she respond to this delight? What do you think of that choice?
11. Bardia is a god-fearing man and would not wish to speak ill of the gods. But he says, “We are very near the bad part of the mountain—I mean the holy part” (100). Why might he describe the bad part and the holy part as the same?
12. “There, not six feet away, on the far side of the river, stood Psyche.” Chapter 9 ends with Orual’s encounter with Psyche. Make some predictions for chapter 10.