=1.= Deep-chested, that his great heart might have play,
Describe Hugh Glass. Hugh’s physical characteristics are drawn
in large lines. Compare this with the more elaborate
descriptions of persons in other books. Which is more effective?
=2.= Gray-bearded, gray of eye and crowned with gray
Our author’s descriptions leave much room for the play of the
reader’s imagination. Is this method effective with you?
=4.= And, for the grudging habit of his tongue,
“For”—by reason of.
=8.= And hate in him was like a still, white hell,
Why “white”?
=9.= A thing of doom not lightly reconciled.
What does “reconciled” modify? What is this figure called?
=14.= Old Hugh stared long upon the pictured blaze,
What were the pictures Hugh saw in the blaze? Would you like to
know more of Hugh’s past? Why does not the author tell us more
concerning it?
=17.= The veil was rent, and briefly men discerned
What “veil”?
=19.= Beneath the still gray smoldering of him.
What figure in “still gray smoldering”? Was Hugh a good fighter?
A man whose anger was to be feared?