English 104 Class: Wolff Bullet In The Brain Car

English 104 Class 4character Wolff Bullet In The Brain Car

English 104 Class 4character Wolff Bullet In The Brain Carver, “Cathedral†REQUIRED TEXT: Charters, The Story and Its Writer , compact 9th ed. “Bullet in the Brain†1. Who is the protagonist? Is there a protagonist? 2. What does the opening scene tell us about Anders’ personality, and his attitude toward others? What bothers him most, and how does he express himself? 3. What’s the purpose of the minor characters—the women standing in front of Anders in line, for example? 4. The narrator spends an entire paragraph describing the painting on the ceiling. How does that set up the dialogue that follows? 5. Why can’t Anders stop talking? 6. Why does the narrator give us the detailed anatomy of the bullet’s impact on Anders? What does it reveal? 7. Why does the narrator list what Anders doesn’t remember? What does the list suggest about Anders? 8. What does Anders like about what he does remember? Why such beautiful language here? 9. What does the story seem to be saying about memory? “Cathedral†1. What is the core conflict in this story? Who is the protagonist, who the antagonist? 2. What do the narrator’s stereotypes about the blind and other people reveal about him? What does his tone/voice reveal about his character? What emotions does he display, and what role does alcohol and pot play in his life? 3. How is Robert characterized? In what ways do Robert and the narrator's wife differ from the narrator? What is it about Robert that unsettles the narrator? 4. Why is the narrator's wife attracted to Robert? 5. What is the narrator's attitude toward his wife? What kind of marriage do they have? 6. What is the blind man's motive for encouraging the narrator to draw a cathedral? 7. When the narrator and Robert draw the cathedral together, the narrator says, "It was like nothing else in my life up to now." What does he mean? What has he experienced or felt that is new? What exactly does Robert teach the narrator? 8. What is the meaning of the story's final scene? 9. Contrast the author's tone and the narrator's mood at the opening of the story with the tone and mood at the end. How does the change in style reflect the change in the narrator? How has the narrator changed from this experience? 10. Contrast the connection between Robert and the narrator with the lack of connection between the narrator and his wife. 11. What does the story have to say about blindness? Eng 104 Class #3 Plot: Jewett, “A White Heronâ€; deMaupassant, “The Necklace†REQUIRED TEXT: Charters, The Story and Its Writer , compact 9th ed. “A White Heron†1. How do Sylvia’s mother and grandmother describe her? How does Sylvia seem to see herself? 2. How does Sylvia react when she hears the hunter’s whistle? What’s the effect of Jewett’s sudden switch to the present tense here? 3. What does Sylvia have in common with the hunter? Why is she attracted to him? 4. What does she have in common with the heron? How does Sylvia’s relationship with the heron contrast with the young man’s relationship to the bird? 5. What is the significance of Sylvia’s climb to the top of the pine tree? What does she see up there that she has never seen before? 6. Analyze the last paragraph. What has Sylvia gained, and what has she lost? What has she preserved? “The Necklace†1. Who’s the protagonist, who’s the antagonist, and what makes them so? 2. What kind of person is Madame Loisel? Try to find specific evidence for each trait that you name. 3. What sort of evening does Madame Loisel have at the ball? What does this suggest about her understanding of high society? 4. Once Mme. Loisel is resigned to replacing the necklace, what sort of change occurs in her personality? Does the narrator present the new or the former Mme. Loisel as the more sympathetic? 5. Why does Madame Loisel choose to tell Madame Forestier the truth? 6. What is the role of Madame Loisel’s husband in this story? 7. How does the ending change the meaning of the story?