Thank You M'am
A large women with a large purse.
How would you describe Mrs.Jones' appearance?
10 dollars.
how much money did Mrs. Jones give to Roger after the "dinner time"?
"On the Road to Mandalay"
What was the song that the smaller girl sang at the beginning?
The medals of obedience, punctuality, and good behavior.
What were the three large medals that Bertha had?
A pair of blue suede shoes.
What do Roger want to buy after stealing Mrs. Jones' purse?
The setting is at night, Mrs.Jones apartment and the street.
What is the setting of the story?
The bachelor learned his name while the aunt was telling him to stop smacking the cushions of the seat.
When did the bachelor learn of Cyril's name?
The irony was that, indirectly, being good and getting medals for that was the reason the wolf was able to find and eat Bertha.
What was the irony of Bertha's death?
The boy could hear other roomers laughing and talking in the large house. Some of their doors were open, too, so he knew he and the woman were not alone.
What is the point of view of Roger when he go to Mrs. Jones' apartment?
Roger didn't run out the door because he wanted to build trust between Mrs.Jones and himself.
Why do you think that Roger didn't run out the door when Roger had the chance to in Mrs.Jones's apartment?
He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans.
From Mrs. Jones point of view, what do she think Roger look like?
The bachelor added the Prince of the country, the Prince's mother, the gardeners, the pigs, and the wolf. The characters that the bachelor removed was the group of admirers who rescued the girl.
In the bachelor's story, what characters did he add and what characters did he remove?
The aunt had a happy ending where the girl survived a mad bull because of the rescuers who admired her good character. While the bachelor's story had the girl die from being eaten by a wolf after visiting the prince of the country because of her goodness.
What differs between the aunt's ending and the bachelor's story?
Mrs.Jones might have shut the door right before Roger was going to say "Thank you" because she probably knew what Roger what was about to say.
Why do you think Mrs.Jones shut the door right before Roger was about to say "Thank you" ?
Ham, Lima beans, coco and her 10 cent cake.
What did Mrs.Jones give Roger to eat?
The aunt meant that the bachelor's story went against the normal moral code that children tales usually go to. It promoted disobedience, which was the opposite of what generations of stories taught.
When the aunt exclaimed that the bachelor's story was improper and "undermined the effect of years of careful teaching." What did she mean by that?
You can infer that the aunt had new-found respect for the bachelor's way of story-telling after his in-dept reasoning for one of the children's questions.
When the aunt suppressed a gasp of admiration, what can you infer from her reaction?
Hotel Beauty Shop
Where does Mrs.Jones work at ?
"The woman did not watch the nor to see if he was going to run now, nor did she watch her purse"
This tells the reader that the bigger of the smaller girls and the bachelor both share the same trait of being inquisitive.
When the bigger of the smaller girls asked a question about the aunt's story, the bachelor narrated that he would have asked the same thing. What does this tell you about their character?
The bachelor foreshadowed Bertha's demise, which was caused because of her hanging around in the the prince's park, which
When the bachelor described Bertha as "horribly good", what was he foreshadowing to and how did describing her as horribly good foreshadow it.