Elephant/The Taste of Watermelon
This story is named Elephant because...
What is narrator has a dream that he is on his father's shoulders, riding him like an elephant
The narrator realizes he is actually dead in the story
what is How it Happened
Who does the wife/woman meet in the forest?
what is a witch
The setting of Sandpiper
What is Egypt
What was the "Happy Prince"
What is a statue
what is his mother, brother, son, daughter, and ex-wife
The name that the group of boys called themselves
What is the Wormsley Common Gang
Describe the setting in The Rain Horse
What is rainy, with a mentioned lack of setting/setting that is not how the narrator remembers
Why is the son visiting his father in Fly in the Ointment?
What is his father went bankrupt and is visiting his old factory
Why is the King upset at his son for hooking up with a girl in Custody of the Pumpkin
What is she is of a lesser class
He protects his pumpkin patch at night with a shotgun
What is Mr. Wills
The narrator is surprised that his chauffeur will not talk to him; his chauffeur's name and why he did not respond to the narrator
What is Perkins and because Perkins is alive, the narrator is dead
Why is it frowned upon that the woman talks with the "person in the forest"?
What is religion would be totally against meeting that type of woman in the forest
Why will the wife not leave her husband in Sandpiper?
What is she is in too deep and for the sake of their child
What does the Happy Prince ultimately learn at the end of the story? What does he give up?
What is that money and riches cannot buy you happiness but rather making others happy...or something along those lines; His eyes, his skin, and his ruby/gem
ammo actually used in the shotgun
what is rocksalt
What happens to all of the money in the house in The Destructors?
What is it is burned
What do the three hills represent (in our opinion)
What is shame from family/community, abandoning of her child, and abandoning of her husband; her three large sins
What other story can be used with the Sandpiper with the motif of staying vs. leaving
Answers will vary....maggots
What happens to the Happy Prince and the Swallow by the end of the story
What is they die, but with a better moral understanding of life.
What other short story would you relate with the Elephant as it pertains to the Motif of acceptance
What is...am I entertained by your answer
Explain the main motif of the Destructors and why
What it...am I entertained by the answer
What is the significance of the "Horse stalking and almost attacking the man"
What is the encounter with the horse leaves him feeling shaken and empty, much like his memories of this place from 12 years prior; empty and shaken
Explain the cultural differences that are described by the narrator in Sandpiper
What is role of women...answers will vary so impress me!
What other short story can be used with The Custody of the Pumpkin when it comes to the motif of acceptance.
What is answers my vary...impress me peasants