Read " Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. Respond to the following Critical Reading questions in a blog post below.
1. What point of view does the story use? Is it consistent in its use of this point of view?If shifts are made, are they justified? 2. What advantages has the chosen point of view? Does it furnish and clues as to the purpose of the story? 3. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Is important information known to the focal character ever fairly withheld? 4. If the story employs humor, is the hour present merely for its own sake or does it contribute to the meaning? 5. What contribute to the story is made by its setting? Is the particular setting essential, or could the story have happened anywhere? Read " The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. Respond to the following Critical Reading questions in a blog post below. 1. Who is the protagonist of the story? hwat ae the conflicts? Are they physical, intellectual, moral, or emotional? Is the main conflict sharply differentiated good and evil, or is it more subtle and complex? 2. Does the plot have unity? Are all of the episodes relevant to the total meaninf or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next? Is the ending happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved? 3. what use does the story make of chance or coincidence? Are these occurencs used to initiate, to complicate or to resolve the story? How improbable are they? 4. What means does the author use to reveal character? Are the characters sufficiently dramatized? What use is made of character contrasts? 5. Are the characters consistent in their actions? Adequately, motivated? Plausible? Does the author successfully avoid stock characters? 6. Is each character fully enough developed to justify it's role in the story? Are the main characters round or flat? 7. Does the story have a theme? What is it? Is it implicitor explicit? 8. Does the theme reinforce or oppose popular notions of life? Does it furnish a new insight or refresh or deepen an old one? 9. What point of view does the story use? Is it consistent in its use of point of view? If shoifts are made, are they justified? 10. What advantages has the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story? |
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