1. Write another chapter in the life of Liesel. The chapter should be about one of the following: Just after she and Max reunite The events and decisions that lead her to leave Germany Who she married and how they met Imagine another event in her life and write about it Must include flashbacks to […]
A word often associated with Emily Dickinson is “eccentric.” As we’ve learned, she almost never left her home for the last twenty years of her life. She attended her father’s funeral while hiding in her bedroom with the door cracked open so she could hear. She was known in her neighborhood as the “Woman in […]
A word often associated with Emily Dickinson is “eccentric.” As we’ve learned, she almost never left her home for the last twenty years of her life. She attended her father’s funeral while hiding in her bedroom with the door cracked open so she could hear. She was known in her neighborhood as the “Woman in […]
In Sandra Cisneros’ “Woman Hollering Creek,” why doesn’t Cleófilas want to return to her father’s home in Mexico? Describe the various “ways out” she considers over the course of the story. Why does she finally decide to return to Mexico?
In Sherman Alexie’s story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” what is the struggle for the protagonist, Victor? What is he trying to balance, trying to come to terms with in regard to his identity? Who is Thomas (Thomas Builds-the-Fire), and what is his role? How is Victor’s struggle resolved at the […]
In Eudora Welty’s “Petrified Man,” what is Mrs. Pike’s attitude toward Mr. Petrie? How do she and Leota respond to the realization that he is a rapist? What does their response tell us about them?
