The idea of the novel and the pathos of a work
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Explain the term pathos in your own words in 2 sentences.
Answer: the ardent feeling and elevated spirit that sets the direction of the depiction in the work.
2
Name two figures from the novel depicted with affirming pathos and two with rejecting pathos.
Affirming: Edigey, Nayman ona; rejecting: the jungjangs, Sobitjon.
3
Why might the epigraph of a work matter? Give your opinion in 3 sentences.
Free answer; an epigraph points to the idea of the work.
4
Find one idea from Aytmatov’s work that relates to life today and write it.
Free answer; it may concern memory, roots or respect for parents.