Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
1. The images of nature provided an insight into how Mrs. Mallards really felt about her husband’s death. You get the feeling of relief and the feeling of freedom from the images.
2.
A. She is a young woman with a fair calm face.
B. A grieving wife, who misses her husband.
C. A free woman.
3. She was free from her husband for an hour.
Ernest Hemingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place
1. Write a description of the two waiters based on their conversation.
The young waiter is impatient and insensitive, whom only cares about himself and getting home to his wife. The older waiter is someone who sees himself like the old man in the future: lonely and drinks alone.
2. The story relates the perspective of two waiters, one who is young and the other …show more content…
How does youth affect the younger waiter’s behavior toward the old man? The young waiter is rude and insensitive about the old man trying to commit suicide because
b. How does the older waiter perceive the old man?
The old waiter sees himself in the old man as he gets old and that he’s, as well, lonely like the old man.
3. In addition to using dialogue to establish character, Hemingway employs dark and light imagery in his settings to create the tone in his fiction.
a. Contrast the light in the café to the darker bodega.
The light in the café is order, cleanliness, and it keeps the loneliness away. The bodega is to drink your sorrows away.
b. How do these images intensify his theme?
The old man drinks at the café because it keeps his loneliness away, it keeps him living another day.
Kay Boyle, "Winter Night," pages 271-277; Q 1-5.
1. The sitter tells Felicia about the other child because Felicia reminded the sitter of the other child.
2. The sitter omits that it was her experiences in the German concentration camp.
3. The sitter omits this because Felicia is still innocence.
4. The knowledge of the reader is that the story happen to the sitter.
Andre Dubus: A Father's Story
1.
1. The images of nature provided an insight into how Mrs. Mallards really felt about her husband’s death. You get the feeling of relief and the feeling of freedom from the images.
2.
A. She is a young woman with a fair calm face.
B. A grieving wife, who misses her husband.
C. A free woman.
3. She was free from her husband for an hour.
Ernest Hemingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place
1. Write a description of the two waiters based on their conversation.
The young waiter is impatient and insensitive, whom only cares about himself and getting home to his wife. The older waiter is someone who sees himself like the old man in the future: lonely and drinks alone.
2. The story relates the perspective of two waiters, one who is young and the other …show more content…
How does youth affect the younger waiter’s behavior toward the old man? The young waiter is rude and insensitive about the old man trying to commit suicide because
b. How does the older waiter perceive the old man?
The old waiter sees himself in the old man as he gets old and that he’s, as well, lonely like the old man.
3. In addition to using dialogue to establish character, Hemingway employs dark and light imagery in his settings to create the tone in his fiction.
a. Contrast the light in the café to the darker bodega.
The light in the café is order, cleanliness, and it keeps the loneliness away. The bodega is to drink your sorrows away.
b. How do these images intensify his theme?
The old man drinks at the café because it keeps his loneliness away, it keeps him living another day.
Kay Boyle, "Winter Night," pages 271-277; Q 1-5.
1. The sitter tells Felicia about the other child because Felicia reminded the sitter of the other child.
2. The sitter omits that it was her experiences in the German concentration camp.
3. The sitter omits this because Felicia is still innocence.
4. The knowledge of the reader is that the story happen to the sitter.
Andre Dubus: A Father's Story
1.