The Shining mountain – questions about the fairy tale 

1. old lady appears three times, starts with ” once there was”, there is a test, A lesson, a happy ending, a ”witch”, miracle/magical elements,

3. 

A: she’s named after the mountain; because the father wanted his daughter to be strong and light as the gods and feel no human feelings and cry no human tears.

B: he’s a mountaineer

C: for her to be like her namesake, to be strong and stand tall, independent

D: by climbing on stuff and balancing on stuff

E: She wants her to be more careful, she’s afraid she will hurt herself and tear her clothes

F: He thinks they are strong enough to do it on their own

G: Arrogant and rude

H: She doesn’t want o disappoint her father; line 37 and line 4-5 page 20

     She likes her mother but is not afraid to disappoint her, like she is towards like her father.

I: The Sherpa women is a goddess and chooses to only appear to her and not the father.

J: She offers to take her bag, clothes, and heavy heart.

K: She is tired and doesn’t want to disappoint her father by not making it to the top of the mountain a She thinks that letting the Sherpa have her bags will make it easier to make it to the top.

4. 

A: Maybe because the plane is like the swan in some way.

B: Brown, Blue, White, Crystal blue, Dark gleaming gold, yellow

C: White = innocence and purity

     Blue = power and the path, color of the gods, peace

     Gold = power and gods

     Brown = poverty, earth

     Yellow = happiness and fantasy, light, confidence

5: it specifies just how high up they are.

6: The first story

7: B is the one that doesn’t fit

all the other have to do with her not being good enough.

8: mother: dangerous

father: the altement climb and beautiful and strong

Pang: scary and a chance to fail her father

9: heavy backpack, heavy clothes, heavy heart

10: cruel, ancient, wrathful

11: as a child, coldly, sharply,

12: don’t push others too far, be realistic with your expectations, let them choose their own path.

13: The goddess appeared as a swan, and the goddess told the father that she made it so the daughter wouldn’t feel human emotion and not human tears, her companion animal is a swan ( the goddess)

14: heavy and weak

17: because it doesn’t matter to the story

18: because she doesn’t matter to the story

For 18 and 17 most fairy tales have a lesson to teach so names are often left out so the person hearing the story has less to remember and isn’t distracted from the point of the story.