Characters
In The Lottery, This character symbolizes those that strive to keep aging traditions
Old Man Warner
Dead Men’s Path and The Lottery show the opposite dangers when it comes to respecting this.
tradition
In Dead Men's Path, what does the footpath symbolize?
Tradition and connection to ancestors
Name that irony: “It amazes me,” said Obi to one of his teachers who had been three years in the school, “that you people allowed the villagers to make use of this footpath. It is simply incredible"
Verbal irony
Name one of the two Daughters of Tessie Hutchinson
Eva and Nancy
In Dead Men's Path, What two characteristics describe the teachers at Michael Obi's school which he believes is a "good thing"?
Young and Unmarried
In Dead Men's Path, the story suggests that modernization without this is dangerous.
cultural understanding / respect for one's beliefs
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In Dead Men's Path, What are the two animals mentioned by the priest to "let Perch" that symbolize both Michael Obi and himself in this dispute?
In The Lottery, Jackson creates this type of Irony through the title of the story
Situational Irony
In The Lottery, What "force" causes uneasy villagers to participate anyway?
Conformity or "peer pressure"
This character names means "of the cross" to symbolize the connection of Religion.
Mrs. Delacroix
What is the Theme of "The Lottery"?
Don't blindly follow tradition
In The Story of an Hour, What does the Open Window symbolize?
Freedom
Explain how the Name "Mr. Summers" can be seen as Ironic in The Lottery?
Summers symbolizes life and he brings death
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Name what country each story comes from:
The story of an Hour
The Eclipse
Dead Men's Path
The Lottery
In The story of an Hour, Explain How does Brently Mallard treat/feel about his wife?
He loved her and seemed treat her well; important as shows how every wife felt this not just those in unloving/ poorly treated marriages
What is the Theme of The Story of an Hour?
need some wording explaining the Oppressiveness of Marriage women feel through society
What does The Solar Eclipse symbolize in The eclipse?
knowledge, truth, and the colonizer's blindness
What type of irony is used at the end of The Story of an Hour with the phrase when the doctor makes the claim that it was "The joy that Kills"?
Dramatic: The doctor believes she died from the joy of seeing her husband, but audience knows it was that her newly found Joy was taken away again.
In The Lottery, The author uses this literary device at the beginning of the story to create the irony at the end of the story
Mood
In Dead Men's Path and The Eclipse, This is the personality trait that causes Bartolome's & Michael's downfall.
Arrogance
What message do The Eclipse and Dead Men's Path share specifically in connection with colinization?
The idea of respecting other cultures and traditions
In Dead Men's Path, This symbolizes the growth and addition of new ideas Michael Obi brings to the school and community
Flowers/Garden
Other than the Children gathering stones, give one specific example of foreshadowing in one of our stories
Lottery: people backing away from the box when brought out.
Story of an Hour: delicateness they break news to her foreshadowing her fragile nature to these events
Dead men's path: A teacher warns Obi that a "big row" occurred the last time someone tried to close the sacred village path.
Who does Bartolome have Knowledge in that makes him feel superior to the Maya?
Aristotle