advantages/disadvantages of this choice of narrators

Essay Questions
Choose two questions and respond thoroughly, making sure to have a claim and support in the form of quotes from the text to support your claim. (10 pts each)
1. Choose one of the stories that we’ve read and discuss the setting. What “role” does it play–in relation to the characters? The plot? The theme? How does it

help advance the theme?
2. Choose one of the stories that we’ve read and discuss the organization of the plot. How important is it to the story? The theme? The characterization? Is

it a highly crafted plot or a more “natural” unfolding of events? Why or why not? (For example, what did Tolstoy achieve by putting the funeral first in “The Death of

Ivan Ilych”?)
3. Choose two stories that we’ve read and compare/contrast two of the characters. How are they similar? Different? What is important about these

similarities/differences?
4. Choose two of the stories we’ve read and discuss the narrator. What type of narrator is it? Is it a reliable narrator or not? Why? What are some of the

advantages/disadvantages of this choice of narrators? What differences in the stories are attributable to the different point of view?
5. Choose two of the stories that we’ve read and discuss the theme(s). How are they similar? Different? How is each theme developed in each story/play? What

is important about the similarities or differences in the themes? In their development?
6. Choose any of the stories that we’ve read and compare/contrast it to a story, novel, piece of music, piece of art, television show, play and/or movie that

you are familiar with. What is important about the differences? The similarities?
Identification
Choose five quotations and identify their speaker, story, author and significance. (4 pt each)
1. And it was like a confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions when at the end of their ride, their daughter stood up first and stretched her young body.
2. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done

the wrong.
3. “Jesus thrown everything off balance. It was the same case with Him as with me except He hadn’t committed any crime and they could prove I had committed one

because they had the papers on me . . . He thrown everything off balance.”
4. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-

creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime . . .
5. “Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not?”
6. . . . up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. They err who

would assert that invariably this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart. It rather proceeds from a certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and

organic ill. To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. And when at least it is perceived that such pity cannot lead to effectual succor, common sense bids the

soul be rid of it.
7. I waited in vain to hear my name on my wife’s sweet lips: “And then my dear husband came into my life”–something like that. But I heard nothing of the sort.
8. . . . ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of making. Evil must be your only happiness.
9. “What all this means is that the old world is gone. The old manners are obsolete and your graciousness is not worth a damn. You aren’t who you think you are.”
10. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
Definition
Choose five of the following words. Define AND give an example from our readings (2 pts each).
protagonist
antagonist
omniscient narrator
limited omniscient narrator
1st-person narrator
simile
metaphor
personification
allusion
stock character
round character
flat character
irony
allegory
symbol

the book used is Charters, Ann. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact 8th edition

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