What does gargoyle Quasimodo mean?
The phrase ‘gargoyle Quasimodo’ suggests an ugly disfigured man as a gargoyle is a beast carved in stone whereas Quasimodo meaning almost finished or half made, was the disfigured bell ringer at Notre Dame Cathedral.
Who is the Gargoyle Quasimodo compared with in the poem?
The older garbageman has a hunched back and looks ‘like some gargoyle Quasimodo’ (line 22). This simile is striking: Quasimodo is the Hunchback of Notre Dame in Victor Hugo’s novel.
What made both two beautiful people in the Mercedes and two scavengers in the truck to hold all four close together?
Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes juxtaposes two sets of people, a pair of working class garbagemen and an elegant couple, accidentally brought together by the random red light at a traffic junction.
Is Quasimodo a real person?
Quasimodo (from Quasimodo Sunday) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo. …
What is Quasimodo?
In Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo has a back deformity from birth. But what it is? The proper term for his condition is kyphosis, a spinal disorder that causes a person to appear to have a hump. The spine bends, usually because of degeneration of the discs of the spine or the spacing between them.
What is the message about two scavengers in a truck?
The poem describes four people stuck at traffic lights in downtown San Francisco – two are garbage collectors and two are an elegant couple in a Mercedes. The poem is about the contrast between these people and the gap that is developing between the rich and poor even in the USA which is meant to be a ‘democracy’.
What is a scavenger give three examples?
Examples of scavenger animals include: Vulture: a type of bird that eats decaying flesh. Carrion beetle: the term for one of many beetles that can eat flesh or even bat droppings. Blowflies: insects that munch on dead parts of live animals, like the dead flesh around their wounds.
Who is Quasimodo’s biological father?
Claude Frollo
Phoebus
Quasimodo/Father
What was Quasimodo disease?
How strong is Quasimodo?
Quasimodo is unexplainably strong. Not long after climbing down the side of the cathedral with Esmerelda, he ends up holding Phoebus in the air, by his throat, with a single hand in the bell tower. This super-strength later comes in handy after Frollo chains Quasi to some columns in the cathedral.
How is Quasimodo so strong?
When Frollo had him chained to the bell tower, Quasimodo displayed super-human strength by breaking down the stone pillars that held him before swinging to Esmeralda’s rescue.
What animals are called scavengers?
Animals, who eat the flesh of dead animals, as food are called Scavengers. Example: vultures, hyena, coyote, raccoon,etc.
