Remember to support your answers with evidence from the text.\u00a0 Work on expanding and developing your answers, really letting your brain run with them.\u00a0 You don’t need to answer all the questions, so if you get carried away with question 2 and hit 750 words, that’s okay (though you’ll want to start with the finish-the-sentence exercise just below, because we’ll kick off the class with that piece).<\/p>\n
Finish one of these sentences: This is a story of _______.<\/p>\n or<\/p>\n This is a story about ___________.<\/p>\n (Three abbreviated examples of how this kind of thing works with other stories:<\/p>\n 1. This is a story of a man coming to a kind of reckoning with his grief over his father’s suicide.\u00a0 For years, this man has been stuck on the question of why? about his father’s suicide.\u00a0 But then he goes on a fishing trip alone \u2013 alone for the first time in years \u2013 where he meets a stranger who helps him get over that hump.<\/p>\n 2. It is a story of healing.\u00a0 Emma is resurrected from her obsession with grief and her misery by art.<\/p>\n 3. This is a story about a period in Revie\u2019s life when his father is making the transition to a new state of life, post mom and post marriage, while Revie flounders.\u00a0 He is being left behind by his father.\u00a0 It\u2019s really a story about grief, and how grief is private, a room one enters (and leaves) alone.)<\/p>\n Conflict<\/em>\/Tension<\/em><\/p>\n What are the conflicts or sources of tension in this story?<\/p>\n What is the conflict (or conflicts) within the narrator?<\/p>\n The Narrator<\/em><\/p>\n Does the narrator change over the course of the story?\u00a0 If so, how?<\/p>\n Why does he propose to her?\u00a0 What’s that really about?<\/p>\n Why is the narrator telling this story?<\/p>\n Kim<\/em><\/p>\n Why does Kim take up with a caveman?\u00a0 What overturns her initial disgust?<\/p>\n Power<\/em> & Control<\/em><\/p>\n Does the balance of power change in this story?\u00a0 How so?\u00a0 What causes the change?<\/p>\n How are issues of control & responsibility dramatized in this story?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remember to support your answers with evidence from the text.\u00a0 Work on expanding and developing your answers, really letting your brain run with them.\u00a0 You don’t need to answer all the questions, so if you get carried away with question … Continue reading
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