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TYW: "for the windows barred for little children, and there are rings and things and rings" What does this quote reveal about the narrator?
She is being locked in a room away from everyone
TYW: What does yellow symbolize and how does it apply to this story?
Caution, this applies because the people in her life should be cautious of her decreasing health
TYW: What is our narrators illness at the beginning of the story? What is the illness at the end?
Nervous anxiety and paranoia/ schizophrenia
SOAH: "Mrs. Mallard was affected with a heart trouble..: Explain the deeper connotation of this sentence"
She has two kinds of heart trouble, mental and physical
SOAH: "She was beginning to recognize this thing was was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will..." What was the thing approaching her and why was she beating it back?
Happiness, she felt the feelings were innapproptiate
SOAH: "Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own." Why does Chopin use the words spring and summer to describe the days ahead?"
The days that she is dreaming of are brighter and warmer
SOAH: "He had been far from the accident, and did not even know there had been one." What is the antecedent of he?
Mr. Mallard
SOAH: "He had been far from the accident, and did not even know there had been one." Why was the news Louise received inaccurate?
She heard it from her sister who heard it from other wives.
LOF: How do the boys get to the island
Plane crash
LOF: Who is the leader of the boys?
Ralph
LOF: How does Ralph get the job of leader?
The group votes
LOF: Who is upset about not getting the gig?
Jack
LOF: Describe Jack in 3 ways. What do these things symbolize about him?
Narcissist, Envious, Childish. These things show that
LOF: What do the boys find in the water to call the meeting? What does this symbolize?
The conch shell, it symbolizes togetherness and unity.
CITR: I am the most terrific (...) you ever saw in your life.
- Fill in the blank
- When someone asks Holden where he is going, what is he "liable to say"?"D' you think we're safe down here?"
Liar, he is liable to say that
CITR: "It only cost me a buck." What only cost him a buck?
His red hunters hat
CITR: "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're done reading it, you with the author..." What does Holden wish about the author?
He wishes that he could call him and talk with him
CITR: "He was a senior and he'd been at Pencey the whole four years and all, but nobody every called him anything except (...)?
- Fill in the blank
- Name two qualities of this character
Ackley; annoying and unhygenic
CITR: "Mother darling, give me your hand. Why wont you give me your hand?"
- Who is mother and who needs his hand held?
- Why?
Ackley is mother and Holden needs his hand held. They were just messing around.
CITR: "This is a (...) hat" What type of hat does Holden label his hunting cap?
People Killing
CITR: "He's conceited, but he's very generous in some things. He really is"
- To whom is this referring?
- How is he connected to Holden?
- What does he borrow from Holden?
Stradlater; His roomate; His houndstooth jacket
CITR: "I hate the (...) like poison, but I get a bang imitating them." Fill in the blank
movies
CITR: "He doesnt want me to be a tap dancer. He wants me to go to Oxford" What is the antecedent of he?
the governor; holden was acting
CITR: Who does Stradlater have a date with? How does Holden know her? What activity did they partake in together?
Jane Gallagher, he grew up by her, checkers
CITR: "Ask her if she still keeps all her (...)" Fill in the blank
Kings
CITR: "We always had the same meal on Saturday nights at Pencey." --What was that meal?
-Holden would bet a thousand bucks it was because of what reason?
Steak, Because parents visit on Sat
CITR: "I started to throw it. At a car that was parked across the street." What is the antecendent of it? Why can't he?
Snowball, it looked too nice
CITR: What did Ackley talk about when they got back from the movies with Brossard? How did Holden know it wasn't true?
A girl he slept with, it happened differently each time.
CITR: What does Holden decide to write stradlaters essay about?
Allie's mitt
CITR: "I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psycho analyzed and all... "
- What happened when Holden was only thirteen?
- What is the antecedent of they?
- Why was Holden going to be psychoanalyzed?
His brother died, His parents, He punched glass windows out of his garage
CITR: "When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying" - What is Holden obsessively worrying about on his last night at Pencey?
- Why does it bother him so much?
How Stradlater and Jane's date went, He knows Stradlater is a player and doesn't want to ruin his innocent vision of Jane
CITR: "In every school I've gone to, all the (...) stick together."
- Fill in the blanks
- Who is Ed Banky?
- What favor does he do for Stradlater?
Athlete bastards, Stradlater's basketball coach, he lets him borrow his car.
CITR: "That's just the trouble with you morons. You never want to discuss anything. That's the way you can always tell a moron." What wouldn't this moron discuss? What happened after?
Jane, They fought
CITR: "I'm not too (...). I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth."
Violent
CITR: Boy, did I feel rotten. I felt so damn (...)"
Depressed
CITR: "What a technique that guy had."
- What guy?
- What was the technique, and why was it used?
Stradlater, sweet talk
CITR: What groups does Holden ask Ackley about joining?
Monks
CITR: What is Holden's plan until Wednesday when he returns home?
Stay in New York at a hotel
"CITR: Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me (...)"
- Fill in the blank
- What gift had he just recieved?
Sad, ice skates
CITR: "I'll bet I woke up every bastard on the whole floor." What did Holden do that caused him to think this.
He yelled "sleep tight, ya morons"
CITR: "I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be"
- What does Holden want to be?
- Why?
A catcher in the rye, to help kids
CITR: Who is James Castle?
A kid at his school that committed suicide
CITR: "He was a pretty young guy, not much older than my brother DB and you could kid around with him without losing your respect for him." To whom is this referring?
Mr. Antolini
CITR: "You heard what your father said about using that word."
- Who says this to whom?
- What was the word?
Mrs. Caulfield to Phoebe, Lousy
CITR: "The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause"
- What is the mark of a mature man?
Live humbly for a purpose
CITR: "What the hellya doing?"
- What was this person doing to Holden?
- What did Holden do after this?
Petting his head while he slept, left abruptly
TA: "He was apparent equally unconcious of anything extraordinary in the situation. But his face was suffused with a quiet glow when he met her."
- What is the situation in chapter 12 that is different than any encounter with these two before? What are they about to do?
Edna asked Robert to attend church with her
TA: "Are those two married over there- leaning on each other?" "Of course not"
- Who is asking the question and who answers it?
- Why is the answer 'of course not'?
The spanish girl is asking Robert, they're too affetionate to be married
TA: Why does Edna leave church?
She feels sick
TA: Where does Robert take her? Describe the woman who owns this place.
Madame Antoines, motherly and kind.
TA: Who's watching Edna's children where she was gone
Adele
TA: How did Leonce feel about Edna's absence
It make him uneasy but then he didn't care
TA: When does Robert sing to Edna, "Ah! Si tu savais"
- What does this phrase mean?
On the way back home in the boat, Oh, only if you knew.
TA: At the beginning of chapter 15 we learn that Robert decided to go where?
Mexico
TA: I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give (...)
- Fill in the blank
- Who said this to who?
- My life, Edna to Adele
TA: In chapter 17, we switch the setting, Where are our characters now?
Back home in New Orleans
TA: "There were a good many,' replied Edna... I found their cards when I get home; I was out." This stirs up a heated argument between Edna and her hubby Leonce. What is the issue?
She is supposed to stay home on Tuesdays but she did not
TA: Leonce ends up leaving in the middle of dinner bc the food was ill prepared. The two have this conversation just before he bolts:
"You used to think the cook was a treasure"
"Perhaps she was when she first came; but cooks are only humans. They need looking after like any other class of persons that you employ. Suppose I didn't look after the clerks in my office, just let them run things their own way; they'd soon make a mess of me and my business."
- Why is Leonce's reasoning ironic? Explain
Leonce was not looking after Edna, thus her stubbornness led to the diminishing of their family.
TA: What does Edna try to break? What does she break?
Her wedding ring, She broke a vase
TA: "The (...) soirees musicales were widely known, and it was considered a privilege to be invited to them."
- Fill in the blank
- What constituted the "soirees musicales"
Ratignolle, everyone sits around and listens
TA: "(...) was one of those men who are called the salt of the earth. His cheerfulness was unbounded and it was matched by his goodness of heard, his broad charity and common sense.
- FIll in blank
- Who would be this character's foil?
Mr. Ratignolle, Mr. Pontillier
TA: "- a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment..."
- Who is pitying whom?
Edna is pitying Adele
TA: "Ravishing! he admitted. 'The city atmosphere has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman."
- Who is he, who is she?
Victor, Edna
TA: "...let your wife alone for a while. Don't bother her, and don't let her bother you." Who is the speaker?
Dr. Mandlelet
TA: At Edna's little dinner part, someone sings "Ah! si tu vais!"
- What does this mean?
- Who sings it?
- What is Edna's response?
Oh only if you know, Victor, she yells at him to stop
TA: "He did not aswer except to continue to caress her. She did not say goodnight until she had become supple to his gentle seductive entreaties."
- Where is this taking place?
- What happens?
- What are the antecendents of he and she?
Pigeon house, sexy time, Alcee and Edna
TA: What was the cover up found in the papers for Edna's moving
remodeling their house
TA: Edna goes to visit her children. How does this make her feel?
very happy
TA: "In some way you seem to me like a child, (...), you seem to act without a certain amount of reflection which is necessary in this life."
- Fill in blank
- Who says this
Edna, Adele
TA: "A hundred times Edna had pictured Robert's return and imagined their first meeting... usually at her home" Where do they meet?
Madame Reisz's house
TA: "Alcee arobin! What on earth is his picture doing here? Who says this? Why is finding his picture there ironic?
Robert, he initially warned Adele that he's not like Arobin
LOF: "D'you think were safe down here?"
"How the hell should I know?"
- Who is having this convo
- Why do you suppose the boys start swearing in this chapter?
Piggy and ralph, the darkness is taking over
LOF: "Hes like piggy, he says things like piggy he isnta proper chief"
who is saying this?
who does he think is like piggy? what does he mean when making this comparison?
Jack, Ralph, Ralph is thinking
LOF: "Im not going to play any games anymore, not with you"
who says it?
what pushed him to leave?
discuss his sage of the word play
Jack, no one votes him leader again, he views this situation as a game instead of survival
LOF: Describe the scene when the boys killed the sow. how is this different than the other times?
It's more violent
LOF: Sharpen a stick at both ends
- Who suggests this and what is the stick for
Jack, to sacrifice the pig's head
LOF: "Ralph was puzzled by the shutter that flickered in his brain. there was something he wanted to say; then the shutter had come down."
- What was the shutter?
- What does it show about the development of Ralph's character?
...
LOF: "You knew didn't you. Im part of you."
- who is speaking to hom
- what does the speaker mean by the underlined phrase?
LOF is speaking to Simon, he means that the darkness is within all of them
LOF: Why is "gift for the darkness" a perfect title for this chapter? What does it means?
The boys are giving into the darkness and gifting it their innocence
LOF: How does Ralph react when a boar comes charging down the path?
What does this reveal about his character?
Excited, he has a savage side
LOF: "You're batty"
"No, i'm not. I just think you'll get back all right"
- Who calls whom Betty?
- What does this passage reveal about the character who is called batty and who you supposed he answers in this manner? Explore
ralph to simon, he sees the way things are going and believes not everyone will make it back
LOF: "Use a littlun," said (...) and everybody laughed.
- who says this and what does it reveal about his character
- what do they want to use a littlun for?
- why is it important that everybody laughed?
Jack, it reverals that he doesnt value the little ones, pretend pig, they are all in agreement with Jack
LOF: What is the action of the story increasingly taking place in the near darkness or in the deep night when only the moon and starts give a little light?
it is showing the darkness of their characters is taking over
LOF: When piggy is holding the conch explaining to the rest his plan to approach Jack, why is it so important that he at least gets to hold this?
To show authenticity, leadership
LOF: In order to prepare to seek out Jack, Samneric wants to put on paint. Why is ralph insistent that they do not?
they are not savages, they are civilized
LOF: What case does piggy plan to lay out for Jack in order to get back hi specs? What reason is he going to give Jack to convince him to give them back?
That he is going to frankly talk to him, what right is right, do the right thing
LOF: what is responsible for piggys death?
Beastie and sin
LOF: "see? thats what youll get! i meant that! there isnt a tribe for you anymore! the conch is gone."
who is saying this?
what is the deeper connotation of what this person says in this statement?
jack, he is a cold hunted killer and wanted piggy dead.
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