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            <head><hi rendition="#bold #times #plain">Discussion: &#8220;Meneseteung,&#8221; by
                    Alice Munro</hi></head>
            <p rendition="#times #plain">Describe how the book of poems called <hi
                    rendition="#italic">Offerings</hi>, the <hi rendition="#italic">Vidette</hi>
                newspaper, and the photograph are related. Where have we seen this sort of thing
                before, and what do we call it?<lb/><lb/></p>
            <p rendition="#times #plain">Describe the narrator’s perspective.<lb/><lb/></p>
            <p rendition="#times #plain">Examine the paragraph in which the narrator describes the
                photograph (beginning of the second section). Pay particular attention to the verb
                tense, how it shifts and changes. What is the effect of these shifting
                tenses?<lb/><lb/></p>
            <p rendition="#times #plain">Brainstorm each of the following, indicating what first
                comes to mind:<list type="bulleted">
                    <item rendition="#times #plain">Almeda</item>
                    <item rendition="#times #plain">Jarvis Poulter</item>
                    <item rendition="#times #plain">grape jelly</item>
                </list><lb/><lb/></p>
            <p rendition="#times #plain">Examine closely each of the following sets of pages and
                comment on what you find most interesting and why:<list type="bulleted">
                    <item rendition="#times #plain">59-61</item>
                    <item rendition="#times #plain">62-68</item>
                    <item rendition="#times #plain">68-70</item>
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            <p rendition="#times #plain">Attend now to the narrator’s concluding remarks. What
                impact do they have on our experience of the story?</p>
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