A Pound of Flesh
Who is the antagonist of the story?
Who is Shylock?
What is the narrative perspective {or point of view} from which the story is told?
First person POV
Who is the main character of the story?
Mrs. Hereira/Christiani
Fiery-tempered, disagreeable (or any other adjective)
"hit the music teacher with a lute", slapped Petruchio and spoke out openly against him on numerous occasions, no-one wanted to marry her, she was known as the wildcat etc.
What is mood?
The feeling created a piece of writing, or the emotional or mental response that authors aim to evoke in readers through the atmosphere of their works
Provide the main reason for Antonio treating Shylock badly.
Because he is a jew
Which island and street is the story set on?
Miguel Street, Trinidad
State one thing the main character tried to escape from?
Neglect or lack of love and attention from her husband OR Toni's abuse
State two ways men were expected to behave and give an example of each.
Men were expected to lead /take control eg. Baptista deciding who would be married first (controlling the fate of his daughters)
Men were to be the provided for their families (Baptista's estate which she and her husband would inherit, payment of Katharine's dowry, Petruchio having a home for his wife, servants to provide food and take of her etc)
What is tone?
The author's attitude towards the subject OR
the attitude or feelings an author, narrator, or speaker conveys toward the subject
If Antonio disliked Shylock, why does he do business with him?
Antonio did not have the money to lend Bassanio so he had to borrow from Shylock, the moneylender.
1. He was a carpenter
2. Wife loved to work
3. That he had made the stolen furniture"
State two ways Toni was abusive
1. Beat her
2. Threatened to kill her
3. Let dog jump on her
Provide two suitable character traits for Petruchio with examples.
1. Controlling
2. Cunning
3. Manipulative
I, Too by Langston Hughes
Defiant, Rebellious, hopeful, confident, patriotic etc.
Give three details of the contract/agreement between Antonio and Shylock
1. He would borrow 3000 ducats
2. To be repaid by the agreed time
3. A pound of flesh would taken if he cannot repay by a certain time
Two ways the illusion of Popo being a carpenter was broken.
1. He said the carpenter fellow does not live there when people came asking
2. He was arrested for remodeling furniture he claimed to make
State two contributing factors causing Toni's unkind behaviour.
1. Drinking
2. Past trauma (sailor for a warship which torpedoed)
3. Culture of Miguel Street and the belief that men could beat women
State four themes evident in the story.
Gender Roles, Determinaton, Transformation/Change, Appearance versus Reality/Deception,Family Relationship etc.
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Identify two lines with metaphors.
Life is a broken-winged bird
Life is a barren field
What was the loophole and how does it relate to the resolution of the conflict?
He cannot spill any blood, it resolved the conflict because Antonio was not killed and Shylock lost the case.
Name two things Popo escaped from and how say how he escaped from each.
1. Escaped Responsibility by claiming "woman made for work", by making thing without a name and by stealing furniture instead of making them
2. Escaped pain by drinking
3. Escaped feelings of worthlessness or his reality by making thing without a name all the time
Explain the irony of the ending of the story.
It is ironic because what Mrs. Heriera was running from initially (her husband) became the safer place for her OR the person who was her escape became the person she had to escape from.
Define the term "shrew" and provide the full title of the original play.
an offensive word for a woman who is considered to be unpleasant and easily annoyed, and who argues a lot
The Taming of the Shrew
"Put down those words,
rocks picked hastily from the beach of mind"
Which figure of speech is being used here?
Metaphor-words being compared to rocks; beach being compared to mind