Describe how the book of poems called Offerings, the Vidette newspaper, and the photograph are related. Where have we seen this sort of thing before, and what do we call it?
Describe the narrator’s perspective.
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?
Brainstorm each of the following, indicating what first comes to mind:
Examine closely each of the following sets of pages and comment on what you find most interesting and why:
Attend now to the narrator’s concluding remarks. What impact do they have on our experience of the story?
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