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    The document summarizes chapters 12 and 13 of the novel "Dr Fisher of Geneva or the Bomb Party" by Graham Greene. It provides answers to 12 questions about key events and details that occur in the chapters. In chapter 12, a man named Mr. Kips visits the narrator and their meeting makes the narrator's superior uneasy. Anna-Luise believes Mr. Kips' aim was to create a secret connection between the narrator and Dr. Fischer. In chapter 13, the narrator feels akin to Dr. Fischer's desire to hurt others out of his own pain and humiliates a waiter. He is reminded of a previous conversation where someone discussed searching for a lost loved one in the faces of others

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    The document summarizes chapters 12 and 13 of the novel "Dr Fisher of Geneva or the Bomb Party" by Graham Greene. It provides answers to 12 questions about key events and details that occur in the chapters. In chapter 12, a man named Mr. Kips visits the narrator and their meeting makes the narrator's superior uneasy. Anna-Luise believes Mr. Kips' aim was to create a secret connection between the narrator and Dr. Fischer. In chapter 13, the narrator feels akin to Dr. Fischer's desire to hurt others out of his own pain and humiliates a waiter. He is reminded of a previous conversation where someone discussed searching for a lost loved one in the faces of others

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    The document summarizes chapters 12 and 13 of the novel "Dr Fisher of Geneva or the Bomb Party" by Graham Greene. It provides answers to 12 questions about key events and details that occur in the chapters. In chapter 12, a man named Mr. Kips visits the narrator and their meeting makes the narrator's superior uneasy. Anna-Luise believes Mr. Kips' aim was to create a secret connection between the narrator and Dr. Fischer. In chapter 13, the narrator feels akin to Dr. Fischer's desire to hurt others out of his own pain and humiliates a waiter. He is reminded of a previous conversation where someone discussed searching for a lost loved one in the faces of others

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    DR Fisher Answers Chapters 12-13

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    Dr Fisher of Geneva or the Bomb Party

    By Graham Greene
    Chapters 12-13
    SUGGESTED ANSWERS

    A. Answer the following questions

    Chapter 12

    1. What is the effect of Mr Kips’ visit to the narrator on his superior? (76)
    The superior is made uneasy and fearful because the narrator, who,
    until then, had been considered a nobody, has suddenly become
    someone with influence and power, thanks to his acquaintance with
    Dr Fisher.
    2. Why is Mr Kips’ business confidential (77)?
    It is confidential because his business has to do with armaments,
    probably illegally sold, as the term ‘laundering’ (= blanchiment
    d’argent sale) suggests.
    3. How does Anna-Luise understand the purpose of Mr Kips’ visit (78)?
    She believes that its aim was to create a connection between the
    narrator and Dr Fischer that will link them through a secret to be
    kept, so that the narrator won’t be able to escape from his grip.
    4. What is ironic about the sermon (think of the word ‘laundering’ used on
    page 77)? (80)
    The sermon, which is about how the first taxes were implemented at
    the time of Jesus, is given is a country, Switzerland, which is,
    according to the narrator, the champion of tax evasion (= money
    laundering).
    5. Who are the Toads the narrator has met outside the party so far? (81)
    He has now met all of the living Toads (Mr Belmont, Mr Kips, the
    Divisionnaire, Mrs Montgomery and Mr Deane (briefly)). What is
    striking is that they all seem alone and lonely (except maybe the
    actor).
    6. What are the conditions to have a soul, according to the narrator? (82-83)
    You have to have suffered (different types of suffering are mentioned:
    losing someone dear, being unhappy, and being disappointed), to
    have time for a private life (meaning introspection), and to always
    aim at bettering yourself (no self-satisfaction).
    7. What does it mean to have a « damned soul »?
    To have suffered (as said in question 6) but to use that experience not
    in order to better yourself, but in order to become mean and cruel.
    Chapter 13

    8. There are four literary allusions (86-88). In what way are they relevant to
    the story?
    They all come from an anthology designed to bring comfort to
    soldiers during WWII. It played this role for the narrator while he
    was in London during the Blitz: the poems expressed his feelings at
    the time in a way that he found comforting. However, now, the poems
    seem to be foreshadowing the way the narrator will feel before he
    actually understands that they refer to the tragedy befalling him.
    (The Blitz, (September 1940–May 1941), night time bombing raids against
    London and other British cities by Nazi Germany during World War II. The
    raids followed the failure of the German Luftwaffe to defeat Britain’s Royal Air
    Force in the Battle of Britain (July–September 1940). Although the raids caused
    enormous destruction and heavy civilian casualties—some 43,000 British civilians
    were killed and another 139,000 were wounded—they had little effect on
    Britain’s ability to continue in the war and failed in its immediate purpose of
    dominating the skies in preparation for a German invasion of England. Source:
    Encyclopaedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/event/the-Blitz)
    9. Why is Anna-Luise’s sweater different now? (90)
    It is now totally red because of her blood on it.
    10.How alike Dr Fischer does the narrator feel in this moment? (91)
    The narrator believes that he may understand and share Dr Fischer’s
    desire to hurt people as a way to avenge his own emotional wounds.
    That’s what he does by humiliating the waiter.
    11.What does the young doctor imply which the narrator didn’t understand?
    (93)
    He is implying that the injuries may be fatal, and that Dr Fischer may
    have to come to see his dead daughter.
    12.One more coincidence: the narrator finds himself waiting in the same
    room as the one in which he visited Steiner. What is he reminded of? (94-
    95)
    He is reminded of Steiner’s mention of the fact that after the death of
    Anna he kept looking for her in the faces of the women he met. The
    narrator wonders if the same thing will happen to him.

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