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Mei Pang
November 17, 2008
Short Story Questions
The Dinner Party
1.The final sentence of the story proved the colonel’s argument was flase. The woman said that the snake was on her foot. The colonel argument was that men has more self control and women just scream and jump on a chair. The statement that she said proved that she didn’t scream, thus the statement about women having no nerve was proven false.
2. The attitude of women has changed since the late 1800’s-early 1900’s. We have more respect than back then. We, women, are no longer stay home moms. We have jobs in government, doctors, police department and more. Women are able to vote, own land and have all the equal rights that men have. Back then people thought women as items but now we have equal treatment.
Charles
1. Laurie invented Charles like Calvin invented Hobbes. Charles was his imaginary friend.. Laurie didn’t want to go to kindergarten and so he would get into a lot of trouble to get kicked out of kindergarten, but he didn’t want his parents to know that he was in trouble. He invented up Charles so he wouldn’t get into trouble.
2. Laurie's is in kindergarten! Please, weren’t we all like that in kindergarten? We would point fingers at one another and say that they did it. The fact that Laurie stopped doing those horrible things means that he realized that he was doing something wrong. If he realized what he did was wrong in the short amount of time, he should not get a punishment.
Thank You M’am
1. Yes, Mrs. Jones did Roger a favor by not turning him in. Well, what good will it do? Roger would just keep on stealing and he would have never learned his lesson. What Mrs. Jones did, terrified him and changed him for the better. Roger would have gotten more out of that then going to a juvenile detention center.
2. I believe that you can change someone’s behavior through kindness and understanding. If helps if you understand someone because then they feel like you know what is like to go through the same problem. No wait, scratch that. If your parents told you to be more helpful around the house by being kind, I doubt anyone would do that but take advantage of that and go do something else. If my parent said please wash the dishes, I doubt I would do them.
Raymond’s Run
1. Even thought Raymond is not the main character and he is a static character, he still has a big impact of Squeaky the main character. At the end of the story, Squeaky realizes that Raymond is a great runner. She realizes that Raymond copies Squeaky’s breathing techniques and he runs with her everyday. She is happy that her brother, Raymond can run and can call it something of his own.
2.I think it’s pretty hard to be “something honest and worthy of respect” when you are a girl. Since girls like to gossip, they become are very judgmental. At one glance, a girl can lose respect of another just because he or she is wearing something unfashionable. Everyone wants to feel like they belong. Girls take that to another level. If we are in a group I think that we lie all the time to seem cooler or friendlier to feel like we fit in. When we do that, we aren’t being honest to ourselves.
Gentleman of Rio en Medio
1. Don Anselmo was a gentleman because he was kind in the story. He dresses in a “suite” for business occasions and he takes things very seriously like a gentleman should. He wore gloves and carried a cane, not because he needed it but to add to the image of what he thought a gentleman should look like. He never raised his voice and didn’t go back on his word when the Americans offered to give him more money.
2. My first urge is to just let the children play there. Let them have their fun. The surveyor realized that there is a lot more land than what I have paid for. I didn’t pay for that land and so it is not fair for us to kick the children out if the land is ours, because it is not paid for. If the children is not bothering the property that is near the land that I bought, then I wouldn’t care what they do.
Story Teller
1. It was a good use of an oxymoron and the children loved it. The children don’t usually hear people sticking the word good and the word horribly together. It is something new and unique. The children also figured out that someone can be too good and that is very interesting to them. The ending appeals to them because it was something unexpected and it was exciting to want to know what happened to the girl in the garden with a tiger hunting her down.
2.The bachelor story is different than the aunt’s. First, the girl dies because of her goodness medals. It wasn’t a very happy ending for the girl, but for the tiger, it was a very happy ending. In the aunt’s story, the girl got saved because she was good. The plot twist in the bachelor’s story was more unexpected and that excited the children to like it more. The bachelor’s story was unique and a person died.
A Retrieved Reformation
1.In the story, A Retrieved Reformation, Jimmy is the phoenix who burns and is born again from the ashes. Jimmy was given a new opportunity to be good. Retrieved means get again and reformation is to make good. Jimmy is renewed and he turned over a new leaf. He no longer robs banks and he is a successful person in Elmore. I think Jimmy is not the only one who changes, Ben Price, the detective, also changed and was “made good again” by letting Jimmy go after seeing Jimmy’s new attitude on life.
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
1.Courage is the resistance of fear but fear is still there. Joby is afraid of the battle but he has to find courage to drum on. Mark Twain’s quote, is saying that courage is going on even though you are still afraid. In the end, Joby embraces his fear of marching into battle, puts his drum up knowing that he might not make out alive.
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
1.I could observe more about the things around me. If I was, it would help me with classes like English. Maybe in the future I will actually write down the announcements on the board and know when a vocabulary quiz is coming up. If I was more observant, I might do better on sight reading in band and that will help me get into All-District Band. I should try and listen more carefully. It will help me understand subjects by paying attention to details.
Flowers for Algernon
1. No, I think that it is wrong for the scientist to test Charlie. It is wrong to test Charlie because it is not morally right to harm another human being for scientific reasons. Charlie signed himself up for the experiment but he was not capable to make that decision for himself. He did not know and he didn’t have the wisdom to make that choice. It is like testing a child, who doesn’t not know what he has gotten himself into.
2. The ability to ask questions is the ability to want to farther deepen your knowledge. You want to know more and your thirst of knowledge strengthen. You want to understand and question what you don’t know. To ask is an important part of intelligence.
 Baby Snow Leopard · Mon Nov 17, 2008 @ 11:03pm · 0 Comments |
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