Based on your reading, please respond to the following prompts. Write in complete sentences and use quotes when stipulated.
1. Is it weight or lightness that makes Tomas return to Prague? Do you think he made the right decision?
2. Give 3 examples of things that are heavy and have value. Do the same with 3 things that are light. Which are better? Is it possible to say?
3. What do you think about the following quote? Is it true? Are there multiple possibilities for love out there, as this quote suggests, or do you disagree with this notion? Please do tell.
"Aart from her consummated love for Tomas, there were, in the realm of possibility, an infinite number of unconsummated loves for other men" (34).
4. What does "Ess muss sein" mean? How does it apply to our novel?
5. How is the word "happened" used to explain the love between Tomas and Tereza?
6. What did Tomas feel he was immune to until Tereza infected him with it?
7. Do we see Tomas get jealous at all in this section?
1. Is it weight or lightness that makes Tomas return to Prague? Do you think he made the right decision?
2. Give 3 examples of things that are heavy and have value. Do the same with 3 things that are light. Which are better? Is it possible to say?
3. What do you think about the following quote? Is it true? Are there multiple possibilities for love out there, as this quote suggests, or do you disagree with this notion? Please do tell.
"Aart from her consummated love for Tomas, there were, in the realm of possibility, an infinite number of unconsummated loves for other men" (34).
4. What does "Ess muss sein" mean? How does it apply to our novel?
5. How is the word "happened" used to explain the love between Tomas and Tereza?
6. What did Tomas feel he was immune to until Tereza infected him with it?
7. Do we see Tomas get jealous at all in this section?
