Lost Horizon

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Lost Horizon
Hilton, James
Readability: 8
Main Characters: Hugh Conway, Roberta Brinklow, Henry Barnard, Charles Mallinson
Setting: Tibet

They had narrowly escaped a revolution. Now their airplane had crashed among the peaks of the highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayas.

Miraculously, someone came to their rescue. Their rescuers were happy and peaceful. They took the four survivors to their home, the mystical valley of Shangri-La.

Lost Horizon is the story of four people wha survive a plane crash, and who are taken to the hidden valley of Shangri-La. Shangri-La is an idyllic society. The four survivors are put to work helping to build and enrich the society. Though Shangri-La is happy and peaceful, each survivor has conflicting feelings about wanting to stay.

Hugh Conway was to become the New High Lama. Although Father Perrault expIained many things to Hugh, his decision of whether to stay or leave Shangri-La was not an easy one. The others needed his help to leave; but if he left, he knew he could probably never return to the enchanted valley.

Questions:

1. What was this story about?

2. How did Miss Brinklow view the people from Shangri-La when she first saw them?

3. Did Conway think he could have found Shangri-La themselves?

4. Why was it Conway got along with the people of Shangri-La so well, in comparison with the others?

5. What was Shangri-La? Could it exist?