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queensthiefok, here are my questions from KoA - yay, i'm so excited, because this is my favourite book in the series for the moment (it keeps changing).
1. in the first part, attolia isnt very nice to gen (e.g, "You would have come, too? Following like the tail behind the dog?", "Unkingly, in so many ways , My King.", saying he had no sense of dignity, etc).
i first read KoA years after i'd read QoA, and i didnt have QoA with me right then, so i couldnt check anything. i remembered they got married at the end, and that they were possibly in love, but i kept thinking, why is she so mean to him, and that her behaviour totally encouraged the guards and his attendants to think that he was stupid and inept, and to play pranks on him, be rude to his face, etc. so what was up with that? i think i read previous posts where someone suggested they were flirting, but really? was he in on it and enjoying the whole thing (because it was painful to watch it even when i knew she loved him)? or was it that they had decided to show him as stupid and not fit to be a king because that was part of his plan, and she was acting along with him?
2. when eugenides goes to attolia's room after leaving costis, he says "Do you still wish you'd hanged me?" and her answer is "Men's necks have been broken by a single blow". i didnt get that at all. please explain? (i obviously need things spelled out for me).
3. and right after that, it says, "It was vain to hope that he might cease to have things to apologize for". why would he have to keep apologizing?
4. in the part where attolia offers gen her wine cup in front of the entire court, "The people sitting nearby recoiled", and then the wine boy lunges forward to fill eugenides's wine cup so hastily that he spills some on the table cloth. why would they recoil, would they care if he was poisoned in front of their eyes? i thought no one wanted him there and wouldnt give a damn if he was murdered.
5. when they are dancing after that, the conversation goes:
"Why were these the only dances that you knew?"
"Because no one would dance with me. Thieves are never popular".
I know why, thought Attolia, but aloud she said... well, something else.
what did she know why? why those were the only dances he knew? why no one would dance with him? why thieves are never popular? whats the point behind those lines?
6. when eugenides confronts dite, why doesnt dite want to hear more about the king's wedding night? why does he recoil and why was he shaking?
7. why did baron susa think costis had revealed something "very important indeed" when he said eugenides spent his time alone staring out the window?
1. in the first part, attolia isnt very nice to gen (e.g, "You would have come, too? Following like the tail behind the dog?", "Unkingly, in so many ways , My King.", saying he had no sense of dignity, etc).
i first read KoA years after i'd read QoA, and i didnt have QoA with me right then, so i couldnt check anything. i remembered they got married at the end, and that they were possibly in love, but i kept thinking, why is she so mean to him, and that her behaviour totally encouraged the guards and his attendants to think that he was stupid and inept, and to play pranks on him, be rude to his face, etc. so what was up with that? i think i read previous posts where someone suggested they were flirting, but really? was he in on it and enjoying the whole thing (because it was painful to watch it even when i knew she loved him)? or was it that they had decided to show him as stupid and not fit to be a king because that was part of his plan, and she was acting along with him?
2. when eugenides goes to attolia's room after leaving costis, he says "Do you still wish you'd hanged me?" and her answer is "Men's necks have been broken by a single blow". i didnt get that at all. please explain? (i obviously need things spelled out for me).
3. and right after that, it says, "It was vain to hope that he might cease to have things to apologize for". why would he have to keep apologizing?
4. in the part where attolia offers gen her wine cup in front of the entire court, "The people sitting nearby recoiled", and then the wine boy lunges forward to fill eugenides's wine cup so hastily that he spills some on the table cloth. why would they recoil, would they care if he was poisoned in front of their eyes? i thought no one wanted him there and wouldnt give a damn if he was murdered.
5. when they are dancing after that, the conversation goes:
"Why were these the only dances that you knew?"
"Because no one would dance with me. Thieves are never popular".
I know why, thought Attolia, but aloud she said... well, something else.
what did she know why? why those were the only dances he knew? why no one would dance with him? why thieves are never popular? whats the point behind those lines?
6. when eugenides confronts dite, why doesnt dite want to hear more about the king's wedding night? why does he recoil and why was he shaking?
7. why did baron susa think costis had revealed something "very important indeed" when he said eugenides spent his time alone staring out the window?
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Date: 4/26/11 08:34 pm (UTC)Lady Jane, your source for Gen-similes since 2009