Exercise 3 page 334

1.possibility
2.denial
3.meant
4.frustration
5.loneliness
6.dwelling
7.sensibility
8.department
9.setting
10.repetition

Exercise 2 page 337

1. Timing, shriek
2. To Sue, no children were in the bed
3. The two younger children were suspended
4. He let Sue lie
5. Doctor and 2 woman
6. The elder boy induce the other to kill themself
7. A piece of paper on the floor
8. There are boys that have a new vision of the life

Exercise 3 page 337

1. The boy's face reflects all the negative aspects of his life: accidents, mistakes, fear and death.
2. Jude and Sue hear a subdued voice coming from the wall behind them.
3. Jude was afraid that the voices were talking about what happened, afraid that someone saw something and harm them.
4. Jude's view differ from Sue's one.
5. Sue feel guilty of what happened, because she made the boy angry. Jude doesn't agree because he thinks that Sue made it for a greater good.

Exercise 4 page 337

The narrator focuses on the main object, followed by a close-up of a detail. It can be conveyed in the description of dead boy's face: from the general view of the situation to the details of "all the accidents, mistakes, fears, errors of the last" of his life.

Exercise 5 page 337

Hardy's children differ from Dickens's because Hardy put them in a difficult situation, outside the industrial setting: they are victims of supernatural forces that order them their will. These features can be explained by the interest of Hardy for philosophic texts.

Exercise 6 page 337

Lines 54-59: existence and condition of life.
Lines 64-65: Christianity and its useless attitude.
Lines 70-74: Arguing on useless religious matter.
Lines 84-85;96-97: anxieties about life.

Exercise 7 page 337

1. The passage is very cruel and I left me without a word. I find it also impressive, very impressive.