The Pedestrian
The Bet
Where have you Gone, Charming Billy?
Silver Blaze
No News from Auschwitz & et cetera
100
What does Mr. Leonard Mead love to do most?
What is an evening walk.
100
Explain the terms of the bet
What is if the lawyer stays in isolation from all other people for 15 years, he will win two million dollars. He is allowed books, food, and drink, but cannot have any human contact. If he fails to do this, he loses the bet.
100
Who is the author of this story?
Who is Tim O'Brien
100
Who wrote this story?
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
100
In what country is Auschwitz?
What is Poland
200
How do people react when they see Mr. Leonard Mead walking?
What is they eye him with suspicion and confusion.
200
Why does the banker go to the lodge on the last night of the lawyer's captivity?
What is he is contemplating killing the lawyer.
200
What is the setting of this story?
What is Vietnam during the Vietnam War
200
Who is Watson?
Who is Sherlock's right hand man, best friend, and 'cataloguer' or 'blogger'?
200
What is the purpose of this essay? What point was Rosenthal trying to make?
What is Rosenthal was trying to bring attention to the horrors that took place in Auschwitz. He did this by feigning to not bring attention to it. Hence, "No News from Auschwitz"
300
What is Mr. Leonard Mead's attitude toward the shows on television?
What is he regards them as thoughtless, consuming, and a waste of time.
300
What decision does the lawyer announce in a letter, and why?
What is the lawyer decides to forego the winnings of the bet. He will intentionally lose by leaving the lodge 5 minutes early because he no longer wishes to burden himself with the material pleasures that have no meaning in eternity and oblivion. "Your books have given me wisdom. All that the unresting thought of man has created in the ages is compressed into a small compass in my brain. I know that I am wiser than all of you. "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirrage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mce burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe "You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth and hideousness for beauty."
300
What would you say is the theme of this story?
What is 1) True fear in the face of war 2) Finding courage while facing death 3) War cannot be explained; it must be experienced to be understood
300
What is the curious incident of the dog in the night time?
What is the dog didn't bark, so we can deduce that the dog knew the person who had entered the barn to remove the horse?
300
According to the Polish, an estimated how many people died at Auschwitz?
What is 4 million
400
Bradbury describes Mead's walk as being "... not unequal to walking through a graveyard..." In what ways is the city like a graveyard?
What is everyone is intellectually and socially dead.
400
Chekhov lists te books the lawyer reads while he is imprisoned. Does this reading matter reveal something about the transformation the lawyer is undergoing? Explain.
What is yes. "In the second half of the sixth year the prisoner began zealously studying languages, philosophy, and history." "Then, after the tenth year, the prisoner sat immovably at the table and read nothing but the gospels." "In the last two years of his confinement, the prisoner read an immense quantity of books quite indiscriminately. At one time he was busy with the natural sciences; then he would ask for Byron or Shakespeare. There were notes in which he demanded at the same time books on chemistry, and a manual of medicine" These texts demonstrate the rate of intellectual incline as the reader moves from concrete to abstract to complex.
400
What is ironic about how Billy Boy died?
What is if he hadn't died of a heart attack, he would have been killed anyway when the helicophter banked and he fell out.
400
Who killed John Stracker? Why?
Who is Silver Blaze. The horse killed Stracker out of self-defense when he instinctively knew foul play was about to occur. So SB kicked Stracker in the head, and followed that up with the horse equivolent to 'Huzzah!'
400
What are the five types of imagery?
What is: sight smell hearing taste touch
500
The voice from the police-car notes: "No profession" in response to the pedestrain's statement that he is a writer. What does this particular utterance reveal about the society in which the story is set?
What is that this society doesn't value writing like books, short stories, newspapers, articles, et cetera. One can also infer that this society no longer values the type of informational medium that requires active intelligence.
500
As the banker looks back on the events that led up to the bet, he believes that he acted on "the caprice of a pampered man." What explanation does he (the banker) give for the lawyer's motivation for accepting the bet? Do you agree with this interpretation? Why or why not? Caprice (n): a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior
What is the banker believes the lawyer took the bet, in part, to prove a point about the death penalty, but mostly to gain the two million dollars that he would receive at the end of the term. You should not agree with this interpretation, because the lawyers motivation is the other way around.
500
What kind of relationship do you imagine Paul Berlin has with his father? Why is Paul Berlin's father an important character to the story, even though he never actually apperas in the story?
What is 1) Paul most likely has a prototypical 'be a man' relationship with his father. 2) His father is an important character because Paul consistently thinks about how he will be able to prove his manliness and toughness to his father after the war.
500
How is the dinner of curriend mutton significant to the story?
What is the curried mutton is one of the few flavors that would mask the taste of opium, the drug with which the night watchman was drugged.
500
"Brzezinka and Oswiecim are very quiet places now; the screams can no longer be heard. The tourist walks silently, quickly at first to get it over with and then, as his mind peoples the barracks and the chambers and teh dungeons and flogging posts, he walks draggingly. The guide does not say much either, because there is nothing much for him to say after he has pointed." Why doesn't the guide talk much?
What is because it is nearly impossible to casually inform visitors about the atrocities that occured in these death camps.
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