Chapter 1

Questions

1. What's the narrator explaining at the beginning of the story?
2. Why does the narrator write?
3. What inspired the narrator to write the story?
4. Who's the narrator writing his story for?
5. What does the narrator say would happen if the girl asked who she is?
6. What happened to Stevens when he tried to make do with four staff members?
7. Why does the writer reflect on the complexity of words?
8. Why does Rodrigo say he's not afraid of storms?
9. Where does Rodrigo say that he and the girl live exclusively?

Answers

1. How everything in the world began and how time has always existed
2. Because there are no answers
3. A glimpse of perdition on the face of a girl from the North-east
4. Thousands of miserable girls in Rio who no one notices or cares about
5. She'd fall flat on her face.
6. He kept catching himself making small mistakes.
7. To conceal the poverty of his story
8. Because he's the night's darkness
9. In the present