Activities

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1) What examples from history, literature, or other media, resemble the moving of the capital? Was the impact as great? Did this change last?

2) How do you view Mongaku as a character? What purpose does he serve in the plot at this point? Is his inclusion coincidental?

3) Fire is used as a way to "wipe the slate clean" in many forms of literature. Fire both destroys and purifies what it touches. What is being destroyed in this book? What is being purified, if anything? Does Fire resemble something different in this book?

4) What are Yoritomo's motives in raising his army and going into open rebellion against the Taira? Does he wish to avenge his family, or does he merely desire power and takes his first opportunity to acquire it?

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