1. Who really killed Chung Ga? Ah San killed Chung Ga had done all the killing by stabbing Chung Ga.
2. Cite direct evidence explaining why Ah Cho believes that five people cannot be charged with the crime and that he will be found innocent.
Ah Cho believes that five people cannot be charged with the crime because five people could not “inflict two stab-wounds. At the most, if a man had struck but once, only two men could have done it.” (44).
3. According to Ah Cho, if the French magistrates really want to have justice served they should do what to find the truth? Cite direct evidence supporting your response.
According to Ah Cho, if the French magistrates really want to have justice served they should “torture and learn the truth” about the five men (44).
4. Why is the sergeant so eager for the execution to be completed? What does his behavior tell you about his interest in justice?
The sergeant is so eager for the execution to be completed because he had a “fifteen-mile ride before him that afternoon, to the windward side of the island,” (56) where the daughter of Lafière was waiting for him. The sergeants behavior tells us that he has no interest in justice, he just does his job and he is willing to kill a plethora of wrong
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The primary antagonist throughout the story are the Frenchmen. These Frenchmen were also known as white devils and they were not similar to the Chinagos at all, “there was no understanding these white devils” (47). The white devils “were not temperate as Chinagos were temperate” (48). However, the Chinagos “were accustomed to in their dealings with the white devils” (49). In addition, these white devils were strange in a plethora of ways. “There was a curtain behind the eyes of the white devils that screened the backs of their minds from the Chinago 's gaze… that terrible efficiency of the white devils, that ability to do things, to make things go, to work results...Yes, the white men were strange and wonderful, and they were devils”