Phantom Questions CH. 22-Epilogue

What is most important to the phantom?

All he wants in life is to be loved by someone, have a wife, and feel normal.

What happens to Christine and Raoul? Does Erik agree to this? What does this prove most important to Erik?

Christine and Raoul get to be together in the end. Erik agrees to this because he wants to see Christine be happy in life. This proves that he wants her to be happy in life and that he doesn't want her to have a broken heart because he loves her.

What was the end result of Christine's decision?

Christine chose to turn the scorpion, which turned on a water faucet which doused all of the barrels of gunpowder (which then made it useless)

What was the decision Christine made and what is the consequence of the decision?

Christine had two options: Turn the Grasshopper and blow up the Paris Opera House Turn the Scorpion and be his wife forever Christine chose to marry Erik and didn't blow up the Paris Opera House

What did Erik use as blackmail to get his revenge from the first managers of the Opera?

Erik could see all of the things that the people in the Opera did and all of the risque things that they took part in. Erik used that evidence as blackmail against these people of the Opera.

What happens to Erik?

Erik dies of a broken heart.

Why did Erik end up returning the money?

Erik gave up on the plan of marrying Christine and he realizes about how cruel that he was being and also realized that once he gave up Christine he found no need for the money anymore and he was going to die from a broken heart anyway so why should he have the money.

Who visits the Persian?

Erik goes to visit the Persian.

Why was the Persian worried about the decision that Christine was going to make?

Erik is very messed up in the head, and the Persian didn't know if Erik put a fuse behind the scorpion which would lead to the house blowing up as well as the same turn out as the grasshopper.

What does Erik plan to do with the barrels?

Erik plans to blow up the Paris Opera House with the barrels of gunpowder if Christine were to ay no to marrying him.

How did Erik get the money out of the managers coat?

Erik reached out from an opening in the floor and put his hand in the pocket of the managers coat and opened the safety pin then too the money out then closed the safety pin and left.

How did Erik make Carlotta croak like a frog?

Erik used ventriloquism again by being close to the stage in the organ room (which was where the bodies who were chloroformed and drugged in)

Why were the Persian and Raoul saved?

For Christine's sake, Erik knew that Christine still loved Raoul, and Erik wouldn't want to see Christine upset, so he decided to save him for her

Why did Erik feel he deserved the money?

He felt that he deserved the money because he was unloved and didn't have a real job and he was at a big disadvantage because of how he looked (this was one of the first forms of disability)

Where does the Persian get the papers?

He got help from the Daroga to get the papers proving that Erik was real.

What does the Persian and Raoul find in the barrels in the basement? What is it for?

In the barrels lies gunpowder. This gunpowder would have been used to blow up the Paris Opera House if Christine said no to being Erik's wife.

Where does the chapter suggest that Christine and Raoul went?

Norway or Scandanavia

Whose body was found? What really happened to him?

Philippe de Chagny tripped and fell into the lake and drowned (Erik didn't kill him)

Why couldn't the Persian and Raoul get out of the torture chamber in which the way they came?

Raoul and the Persian couldn't reach the opening where they fell in from, even when standing on each others shoulders, the men couldn't reach the opening in the ceiling.

What happens to Raoul and the Persian at the end of Chapter 25?

Raoul and the Persian nearly drown because the water would not stop flowing and they had nowhere to go and no air to breathe in.

Why did the Phantom tie up Christine?

Since Christine already tried to kill herself, he doesn't want her to do it again so he ties her up so so she would not try to harm/kill herself again.

What do we learn about Erik's life when he was talking about Christine's kiss?

That was his first kiss, and he expressed that no one had loved him like that and he was very lonely during his life, and he expressed that he was very happy, and when he kissed her on the forehead, she never turned away from him like his parents may have. (he was looking for acceptance)

How does the Persian feel about Erik?

The Persian hs mixed feelings about Erik, for he feels pity for him for never being loved but he also knows deep inside that Erik was wrong for killing all of those people and doing that things that he did.

The second time that the persian wakes up, where is he?

The Persian is at his house and his servant, Darius, said that he was dragged there and left at the door for someone else to find.

What does the Persian mean when he says that the torture chamber has "served its purpose"?

The Persian is saying that the torture chamber has been used before and that Erik has killed many other people before.

What does the Persian see in the Louis-Philippe room?

The Persian sees Erik over him asking if him and the "daroga" were okay. Christine was also in the room.

Why did people want to kill Erik?

The Shah wanted Erik to build a palace with hidden passages for him, but the Shah realizes that Erik knows all of the secret passages in the palace and he could tell the Shah's enemy all of the secret passages in the palace.

Who was the intruder that the Phantom had killed?

The intruder was Raoul de Chagny's brother, Vicomte de Chagny

How was Erik able to whisper in the ears of the people from far away?

The phantom was very skilled in using ventriloquism, which he used to scare the people. (also in box five, he hid in the hollow columns and scared the managers by "whispering in their ears")

Where does the point of view switch to during Chapter 26?

The point of view goes back to the author, Gaston Leroux, and for most of the book Gaston is the narrator of the story.

What is happening to Raoul and the Persian in the torture chamber?

The torture chamber is turning into an African forest and it is getting very hot in the room, causing Raoul and the Persian to (somewhat) be roasted.

Describe the torture chamber, what is in it? What is the illusion.

There are many mirrors surrounding the inside of the torture chamber and an iron tree in which the torturees could hang themselves from. The illusion is that there is a forest and a desert, also the persian told Raoul to not lick the mirror (which portrayed water) because he could burn his tongue.

Who do Richard and Moncharmin feel is behind the OG fiasco?

They felt that the previous managers were behind it or that both of them were playing this trick on eachother.