Complete the summary of the whole story:
Read the summary and complete it with ONE word in each gap:
This famous classic about a man with a terribly _____________face who falls in love with the beautiful French opera ___________, Christine Daaé, is told after the events happen. Ahistorian researches the events surrounding the mysterious______________ of Viscount Chagny and Christine Daaé and this is his story. He learns from ___________ that the man’sface was so monstrous that ______________ his mother could not look at him when he was a child, and his hope of ever finding ______________was an impossible dream. Much of what we learn about this man, _______________, who almost everyone at the time believes is a _______________, comes at the end of the story when all is revealed ____________the Persian who knew him better ________________ anyone.The story begins when the ghost is _____________ in the Opera __________ the evening of the retirement party for the managers. There is also a ____________ in the Opera that night. The retiring managers inform the new managers that there is a ghost _____________ can bring disaster to the Opera _____________ he does not get what he wants. The new managers laugh and do not _______________ this story until they make the mistake of goingagainst the __________ of the ghost. The ghost is in love ______Christine Daaé and manages to carry her ____________ to his underground house on the lake below the Opera. Shebelieves he is the Angel of Music, ____________ her father promised ________ send after he died. To her ______________ she discovers, when she sees him for the first time that she is in the grip of a terrible monster. Count Chagny’s brother Raoul, the viscount, is ________ in love with Christine but she cannot return his love __________ fear of what the monster will do if he finds them together. The monster and the viscount are ______________ of each other, but the monster is far ____________ and Raoul _____________ up in Erik’s torture room with the Persian who is helping him find Christine. When it seems that there is ____________hope and that they ___________ die in the torture room, the Persian reminds Erik that he once saved Erik’s life. This saves the two men. When Christine touches the monster’s hand, mixes her _______________ with his, and allows the monster to kiss _______________, he has his first and last taste of human affection and _____________. How can he now allow Christine to go _____________ with Raoul? We learn towards the end of the story that Erik was ___________ with no nose and yellow eyes. In fairs all across Europe, he learned ____________. He sang _________________, was the world’s first ventriloquist, and couldperform unbelievable ______________. When a Persian Princess heard about him, she instructed her chief of police, known ______________ the Persian in the story, to bring him to her palace in Mazenderan. The king used Erik’s skills for political _______________. Erik built a palace full of trap doors and secret passages for the king. It was a work of genius and the king ordered Erik’s death so ______________ no one else could have such a palace. The chief of police saved Erik _________________ death and he escaped. Finally, he went to Paris, ______________ he worked for Philippe Garnier, the architect of the Paris Opera. During the war, work on the Opera stopped, but Erik continued working alone, building trap doors and secret passages. It is his genius, his talents, and his personal tragedy that _________him to a life as the Phantom of the Opera.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
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