The Shining Mountain
1.
Write down
the fairy tale elements you find in the story
- Once there was (beginning)
- A helper
- The helper helps 3 times
- Home, out, home
- 3 main persons (but there is 4)
- Once there was (beginning)
- A helper
- The helper helps 3 times
- Home, out, home
- 3 main persons (but there is 4)
3.
Take turns
to answer the question
a. Why is the girl called Pangma-La?
- The girl is called after The Shining mountain, so that she can be tall and proud.
b. What has Pangma-La’s father done to become famous?
- He climbed the mountains
c. What does the father want for his daughter?
- To be independent and not to be ordinary, but special.
d. How does he prepare her?
- The father taught her to climb. To balance finely and shin up sheer rocks by toe- and finger-holds.
e. What’s her mother’s attitude?
- She doesn’t want her to get hurt, and don’t want her to go.
f. Why won’t Pangma-La’s father let the Sherpa men carry their loads?
- He’s too proud, and he wants him and he’s daughter to do it themselves. He doesn’t wants to look weak.
g. What is the father’s attitude to the Sherpa men?
- He’s scornful and a bot arrogant
h. What are her feelings for her father and mother?
- She wants to make them proud: “Let her be. She’s tough and hard as nails” and Pangma-La is proud.
i. Why hasn’t Pangma-La’s father seen the old Sherpa woman?
- Because the father doesn’t believe in magic. He grew up, and he lost his imagination.
j. How does the old Sherpa woman help Pangma-La?
- She replaces all her heavy stuff with feathers
k. Why does Pangma-La accept her help?
-She can’t handle the pressure from her body and her father.
a. Why is the girl called Pangma-La?
- The girl is called after The Shining mountain, so that she can be tall and proud.
b. What has Pangma-La’s father done to become famous?
- He climbed the mountains
c. What does the father want for his daughter?
- To be independent and not to be ordinary, but special.
d. How does he prepare her?
- The father taught her to climb. To balance finely and shin up sheer rocks by toe- and finger-holds.
e. What’s her mother’s attitude?
- She doesn’t want her to get hurt, and don’t want her to go.
f. Why won’t Pangma-La’s father let the Sherpa men carry their loads?
- He’s too proud, and he wants him and he’s daughter to do it themselves. He doesn’t wants to look weak.
g. What is the father’s attitude to the Sherpa men?
- He’s scornful and a bot arrogant
h. What are her feelings for her father and mother?
- She wants to make them proud: “Let her be. She’s tough and hard as nails” and Pangma-La is proud.
i. Why hasn’t Pangma-La’s father seen the old Sherpa woman?
- Because the father doesn’t believe in magic. He grew up, and he lost his imagination.
j. How does the old Sherpa woman help Pangma-La?
- She replaces all her heavy stuff with feathers
k. Why does Pangma-La accept her help?
-She can’t handle the pressure from her body and her father.
4.
a. Why has
the author chosen to let them take off in a white plane?
- Because white is the colour of innocence and purity.
b. What other colours are used in the story?
- Crystal blue, deep blue, gleaming gold, yellow
c. What do these colours symbolize?
- Gold is kind of Nobel, and associated with high standards. Yellow is unreal. Blue is a very open colour. Blue is perhaps freedom and boldness.
- Because white is the colour of innocence and purity.
b. What other colours are used in the story?
- Crystal blue, deep blue, gleaming gold, yellow
c. What do these colours symbolize?
- Gold is kind of Nobel, and associated with high standards. Yellow is unreal. Blue is a very open colour. Blue is perhaps freedom and boldness.
5.
Discuss the
significance of the following sentence:
“…they were high in the crystal blue sky where the sun hurts your eyes.
“…they were high in the crystal blue sky where the sun hurts your eyes.
- She is
the crystal blue sky and the nasty sun, which is blinding her, is the father’s
expectations.
6.
Below
you’ll find three interpretations of Pangma-La’s dream. Which of them do you
find most appropriate and why?
a.
a.
7.
“…my boots
are too big and I can’t fill them…”
compare the meaning of the quotation with the following statements and identify the one expressing a different idea
c. I can’t follow in your footsteps
compare the meaning of the quotation with the following statements and identify the one expressing a different idea
c. I can’t follow in your footsteps
8.
How do the
various characters describe the mountain?
- The father sees the mountain as a huge and beautiful mountain. And Pangma-La sees it as a big, cold and lonely mountain because of the father’s expectations.
- The father sees the mountain as a huge and beautiful mountain. And Pangma-La sees it as a big, cold and lonely mountain because of the father’s expectations.
9.
Sum up the
three test
1. The helper want’s to carry Pangma-La’s heavy sack, but she refuses
2. “Take out the heavy things” and replace it with a swans down. Take of your heavy clothes
3. Her heart
The rucksack is like a heavy burden, filled with her father’s expectations.
The clothes are the material stuff, that you don’t really need and she needs to “free” herself. She is “naked” to her father, she’s fragile.
1. The helper want’s to carry Pangma-La’s heavy sack, but she refuses
2. “Take out the heavy things” and replace it with a swans down. Take of your heavy clothes
3. Her heart
The rucksack is like a heavy burden, filled with her father’s expectations.
The clothes are the material stuff, that you don’t really need and she needs to “free” herself. She is “naked” to her father, she’s fragile.
10.
Describe
the mountain goddess
-She’s a goddess and she’s godly. She has a golden glance.
-She’s a goddess and she’s godly. She has a golden glance.
11.
How does
she talk to Pangma-La’s father?
What has the story to do with
the theme growing up?
She grew up with a lot of expectations, and sometimes they can be more harm than good. We need to learn to listen to ourselves, and say stop when it gets too much.
She grew up with a lot of expectations, and sometimes they can be more harm than good. We need to learn to listen to ourselves, and say stop when it gets too much.
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