The Land In Between
In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the grandmother calls The Misfit this when she reaches out and touches him just before her death.
What is "one of my own children"?
In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the grandmother repeatedly nags Bailey that they should go to this state instead of Florida.
What is Tennessee?
In "Sonny's Blues," this art form serves as the container that holds and transforms suffering into something that can be witnessed and shared.
What is jazz?
This planet plays host to the solar system's tallest volcano (Olympus Mons)
What is Mars?
This philosopher argued "existence precedes essence" - that humans create their own meaning through choices.
Who is John-Paul Sartre?
In Grendel, this character's songs create meaning for the Danes but exclude Grendel, keeping him at the threshold of human community.
Who is the Shaper?
In Grendel, Grendel returns to this location repeatedly throughout his life to watch humans create meaning he cannot share.
What is Hrothgar's meadhall (or the hall)?
In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Shukhov's loyalty and identity are tied to this numbered work team in the camp.
What is Gang 104 (or Squad 104)?
St. Francis University is named after St. Francis of Assisi who was the patron saint of what?
What is animals?
The final stage in Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief.
What is acceptance?
(DAILY DOUBLE): In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ivan screams continuously for this many days - trapped between life and death, unable to break through.
What is three days?
In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, this item appears obsessively as Shukhov hides it in his mattress, trades it, and measures survival by it.
What is bread?
In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," The Misfit says this person "thrown everything off", describing his theological confusion.
Who is Jesus?
This is the only mammal capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
Hannah Arendt's phrase describing how ordinary people commit extraordinary evil through bureaucratic systems.
What is "the banality of evil"?
In "Total Eclipse," these visual phenomena appear just before totality - flickering bands on the ground signaling reality is about to break.
What are shadow bands?What is the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (accept: Libyan opposition)?
In The Return, these three generations of Matar men - grandfather, father, and Hisham - all repeat this dangerous action despite knowing the consequences.
What is going back to Libya (or returning to Libya)?
In Upstream, Mary Oliver describes this practice as "the beginning of devotion" - the container that transforms her alienation from human society into connection with the natural world.
What is attention?
Contrary to popular myth this structure is not able to be seen from space
What is the Great Wall of China?
This existentialist concept from Camus describes humans seeking meaning in a meaningless universe - visible in both Grendel's struggles and the Gulag conditions.
What is the Absurd (or Absurdism)?
In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Shukhov experiences this final daily ritual where prisoners wait to be counted - the moment between work and potential punishment where anything could go wrong..
What is roll call (or the evening count/lineup)?
(DAILY DOUBLE): In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ivan repeatedly decorates his home to be this French term meaning "proper" or "as it should be" - the repetitive performance of respectability.
What is "comme il faut"?
In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, this young peasant servant becomes the only person who doesn't lie to Ivan, creating a container of authentic presence during his dying.
Who is Gerasim?
This is the most abundant element in the universe, making up about 75% of its mass.
What is hydrogen?
Kant's moral principle arguing that right action must follow universal laws treating humans as ends in themselves, never merely as means.
What is the Categorical Imperative?