AOCS
The Missing Questions
As you watch The Missing listen/look for answers to
the following
questions. Some of the questions have specific, concrete answers from
the
film, others ask for your opinion or interpretation.
- Based on what you see in the scene in which the old woman's
tooth gets pulled, write
three adjectives to describe Maggie and three adjectives to describe
Dot.
- Based on what you see in the movie, what is a healer?
- What is the Indian's name?
- Who is Emiliano?
- Why does Maggie hate her father?
- Why can't the Indian eat rabbit?
- What does the Indian try to give Maggie?
- Maggie worries when her family does not come home on time,
but how does she first know something has gone wrong?
- What has gone wrong?
- Why does the Indian go back to Maggie's ranch?
- Did Maggie ever marry?
- Is the Army going to help Maggie find her daughter?
- Why won't maggie let Dot were the moccasins?
- What happens are Maggie, Dot and the Indian try to get
through the canyon in a storm?
- Lilly tries to escape her captors. Is she succesful, why or
why not?
- Why did the Indian find Maggie and her children in the
first place (before Lilly got kidnapped)?
<>>- Maggie, Dot & the Indian have an opportunity to
launch a surprise attack on the group of kidnappers. Does their attack
work? Why or why not?
- The kidnappers chase Maggie, Dot & the Indian. Do the
kidnappers catch them?
- How does Maggie treat the injured Indian?
- What makes Maggie sick?
- How do the people with Maggie treat her illness? Does it
work?
- Why does Maggie give Kayitah her cross on a necklace?
- When the brujo is talking to Maggie's father, the brujo
talks about two animals "fighting" inside him. What are the
animals? According to the brujo which animal will win the fight?
- Does Maggie's father return to her? If so, how?
- What does Maggie tell her father she does not know how to
do?
- Who is the "ghost indian"?
- What does Maggie's father's Indian name translate into in
English?
- Why did the Chiricahua give him this name?
- At the beginning of the movie, Maggie hated her father. Is
this still the case? Exaplin your answer.
- Are you satisfied with the ending of this movie? Do you
think the story ends well? Why?
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