Wednesday, January 22nd
Jan 22, 2014 by Kelly in Labels: ,

HOMEWORK:
Dual Credit Questions:

Hawthorne

  1. At the beginning of the story, is there anything about young Goodman Brown himself that seems evil? 
  2. Why do you think he's following the traveler with the staff in the first place?  
  3. Young Goodman Brown returns to Salem a very changed man. Is he just over-reacting? Or are distrust and gloominess appropriate reactions to what he saw?
  4. What is this story trying to tell us about human nature? Are people bad by nature, or do we only end up harming ourselves by believing that the world is a bad place?

Chopin

  1. Why does Mrs. Mallard really die? 
  2. How do you think Mr. Mallard would feel if he knew what his wife really felt? 
  3. Do you believe Chopin is trying to make some grand assertion about fate or free will with the ending of the story? If so, what is it?

Faulkner

  1. Do you feel pity for any of the characters? Which ones, and why?
  2. Did you find this story depressing? Uplifting? Disgusting? What is your overall reaction to the story?
  3. What do you think happened to Miss Emily's house after the townspeople find the body? Do you think the town made Homer's death a matter of record?  Is it significant that Emily is the last Grierson? Why or why not?

Genre Studies Questions:
Joyce

  1. Discuss the importance of setting? What aspects are oppressive and what are liberating? Explain.
  2.  How does the bazaar Araby take on symbolic importance?
  3. Where's the epiphany in the story? What does the boy realize about himself?Is anything gained by the narrator through his frustration and humiliation?
  4. Look at the first paragraph and examine the diction and images Joyce uses to set the scene. What does he tell us about the speaker's vision of home? 
Fitzgerald

  1. Consider the opening line of "Babylon Revisited." What is the effect of beginning in the middle of a conversation this way?
  2. As readers, are we supposed to be on Marion's side, or on Charlie's side? To what degree can we be sympathetic to Charlie? To Marion?
  3. Does Charlie seem like he would make a good father? What makes you think so? Are you rooting for him to get his daughter back?
  4. Does Charlie deserve what he gets? 
  5. At the end of the story, is Charlie optimistic? Is the author? Should the reader be?

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