tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45643232242019376002024-03-28T13:32:52.280-07:00Read to EnrichThese discussion guides are designed for use after reading with a facilitated discussion group. The character lists can also be used as a reading guide during reading. However you choose to use these - ENJOY!Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.comBlogger311125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-76138890279030110082024-03-28T13:31:00.000-07:002024-03-28T13:31:52.535-07:00The Secret History, by Donna Tartt<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Hampton College, Vermont<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Other characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Richard
Papen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Henry Winter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charles and
Camilla Macaulay - twins<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Frances
Abernathy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Edmund
“Bunny” Corcoran<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Julian Morrow
– Greek professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dr. Roland – Richard
worked for him at college<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Marion –
Bunny’s girlfriend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Judy Poovey <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cloke Rayburn
– classmate, buys drugs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jack
Teitelbaum – classmate<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Epilogue:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Richard –
graduated from Hampton<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Henry – dead,
suicide<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Francis –
gay, marrying Priscilla to preserve inheritance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charles – ran
off with married woman, living in Texas<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Camilla – not
speaking with Charles, taking care of grandmother, turned down Richard’s
marriage proposal because she still loved Henry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Henry’s ghost
– appeared to Richard<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Harry Ray
McRee – man killed by Francis, Henry, Charles, and Camilla while trying to
have a bacchanal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mack and
Kathy Corcoran – Bunny’s parents<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Brothers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Agent Harvey
Davenport – FBI<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William Hundy
– local businessman, spread false story<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Priscilla –
Francis’ fiancé at end of novel, “The Black Hole”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss the various main characters and how they
were portrayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why
was Henry so generous with Bunny?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
example, after the killing, he took Bunny to Italy over semester break.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->At
the end, why did Henry commit suicide?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Regarding
Bunny, once he knew something, he could not quit talking about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henry said of him, “The problem is he’s just
a fool, and sooner or later he’s going to say the wrong thing to the wrong
person” (page 177).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why
was Bunny particularly cruel to Richard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He “picked up with rapid and unflagging instinct the traces of
everything in the world I was more insecure about, all the things I was in most
agony to hide” (page 219).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->At
the end of the novel, Charles entered the room with a gun and planned to kill
Henry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charles said to Henry, “You
ruined my life.” And Henry replied, “If anyone’s to blame for your problems,
it’s you” (page 533).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who was correct or
are they both to blame?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">f.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Richard was the narrator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did he have another part in the story besides
this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Money, or lack of it, played a large part in the
novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did the author put so much
emphasis on who had money and the reasons why some of the main characters did
not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What did you think about the incident when Bunny
invited Richard to dinner, ran up a huge bill, and then lied and said he could
not pay?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Could the story have been the same without the
major emphasis on drugs and drinking?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why was that such a large part of the story?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What did Bunny’s dad’s behavior and mourning add
to the story?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What did you think Julian’s back story was?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the Epilogue and reading about what
happened to everyone?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was it a
satisfying end?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss your reading experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did your opinion and/or enjoyment of the
novel change as you read further?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->This novel was a Read with Jenna pick as well as
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-43944963918669285932024-03-28T13:28:00.000-07:002024-03-28T13:28:14.688-07:00The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Choteau<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Grace Maclean<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Robert –
father, lawyer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Annie Graves
– mother, magazine editor-in-chief<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Elsa –
Jamaican nanny<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pilgrim –
horse<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Judith –
riding friend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gulliver –
horse<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Wayne P. Tanner
– truck driver<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Liz Hammond –
Pilgrim’s usual vet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Harry Logan –
vet at scene of accident, continued to work with Pilgrim<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dorothy Chen
– Cornell University, worked with Pilgrim<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Magazine:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Crawford
Gates – company president<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Don Farlow –
lawyer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Anthony –
Annie’s assistant<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lucy Friedman
– style expert<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Fenimore
Fiske – movie critic, let go<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Tom Booker<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Rachel
Feinerman – Tom’s wife, separated<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hal – son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Rimrock -
horse<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Frank – Tom’s
twin, shared ranch, Double Divide<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Diane – wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sons – Joe,
Scott and Craig<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ellen – Tom
and Frank’s mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Rosie –
sister<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Terri Carlson
– physical therapist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Smokey
“Smoke” – helped Tom with chores<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the hardback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Annie and Robert had completely different
reactions to Grace’s accident and injuries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Robert could not stop crying, but Annie did not cry at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told him, “You’ve got to stop feeling
sorry for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pity won’t help her at
all” (page 78).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think a little
pity would have hurt?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss the family dynamics in the Maclean
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author wrote, “Grace loved
and resented her mother in almost equal measure and often for the same
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For her certainty, for example,
and for the way she was always so damn right” (page 152).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->On the other hand, Annie reflected that to her,
“Action had become a substitute for feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or at least for the expression of it” (page 158).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you understand her point of view?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why do you think Annie was so determined to save
Pilgrim?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Another major influence on Annie and Robert’s
relationship was their inability to have a second child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Robert felt that when Annie accepted the
editorship of the magazine, he thought that “she’d taken it either to distract
or, again, to punish herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps
both” (page 50).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The book was published in 1995.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point Annie felt that Diane
disapproved of how much she worked and seemed to think “that Annie was much too
busy to bother herself with being a mother” (page 208).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think this would be addressed the
same now?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What was it about Tom that Grace was willing to
tell him about the accident when she would not talk about it with anyone else?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How well did the author help you understand a
subject that you might not be familiar with, such as amputation and the
feelings of someone who has lost a body part or horse training and healing?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Toward the end when Tom made Pilgrim lie down,
he said to Annie, “Sometimes what seems like surrender isn’t surrender at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s about…seeing clearly the way life is and
accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not
being true to it is far, far greater” (page 373).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was talking about their relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was this good advice or should they have
denied their feelings?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Grace found out about Tom and Annie, she
felt betrayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you understand her
feelings?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did Tom deliberately let the wild stallion kill
him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the ending, chapter 26?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you think happened between Annie and Robert?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss your reading experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did any parts of the book make you feel
uncomfortable?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you gain any new
insights or knowledge?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">***Looking for a gift for a senior heading off to college? <i>First Semester Success, 2nd edition</i>, by Dr. Arden Hamer is available at amazon.com and wordassociation.com.</p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-48625896417702898972024-02-21T07:57:00.000-08:002024-02-21T07:57:24.860-08:00Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Osage Indians<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>White people<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mollie
Burkhart<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lizzie –
mother, died<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Anna Brown –
sister, killed in ravine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Minnie –
sister, died<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Rita –
sister, died in house explosion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mollie sent
to boarding school at age 7 to learn “white men’s ways”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mollie and
Ernest’s children:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Elizabeth,
James “Cowboy”, and Anna<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Henry Roan
“Roan Horse” – shot, briefly married to Mollie in an arranged marriage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charles Whitehorn
– disappeared before Anna<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">James
Bigheart – chief, held off allotment system<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William
Stepson – poisoned<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Allotment
System – each person given rights to a certain size plot of land and could
sell surface rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Osage kept
the oil, gas and mineral rights under the land; could not buy or sell, only
inherited<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ernest
Burkhart – Mollie’s husband<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bryan and
Horace – brothers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Oda Brown –
Anna’s ex husband<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bill Smith -
Minnie’s husband, then Rita’s<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Scott Mathis
– owned Bill Hill Trading Co., financial guardian for Anna and Lizzie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William Hale
– Ernest’s uncle, mastermind of many killings<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William Burns
– private detective<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Barney
McBride – white oilman, murdered<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">W. W. Vaughan
– attorney, called by George Bigfoot, murdered<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Rose - wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">A.W. Comstock
– lawyer, guardian for several Osage, part of conspiracy?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Chronicle Two: The Evidence Men<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">J. Edgar
Hoover – Bureau of Investigations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Tom White –
special agent, Bureau of Investigation in 1917, in command of field office in
Oklahoma City 1925<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">J. C. “Doc”
White – younger brother, former Texas Ranger, joined bureau<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dudley White
- brother <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Emmett White –
father, in charge of county jail in Austin, Texas, lived next door with the
children<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Others on
team:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Burger<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Frank Smith<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Wren – American
Indian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Roy St. Lewis
– U.S. Attorney<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Leahy –
local attorney<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Chronicle Three – The Reporter 2012<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">David Grann<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kathryn Red
Corn – Director, Osage Nation Museum, grandfather poisoned 1931<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Margie
Burkhart – granddaughter of Mollie and Ernest<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Andrew Low –
husband, Creek Seminole<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Martha
Vaughan – granddaughter of W. W. Vaughan <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">H. G. Burt –
bank president in 1923<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Collected
money Bigheart owed Vaughan, guardian of Bigheart’s daughter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mary Lewis
killed in 1918 – one of first<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Pages are from the paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you enjoy one section of the book more than
the other two?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Were you surprised that the Osage had white
servants, such as Rita and Nettie Brookshire?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In chapter 26, the author lists some of the
number of Osage wards who died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
example, one guardian had 11 wards and 8 of them died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you think no one ever became aware of
this and investigated?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->According to the author’s research, the killings
happened over a period of 13 years, from 1918 (Mary Lewis) through Red Corn’s
grandfather in 1931.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did this
remain undetected?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Tom White’s story was one of the main focuses of
the second part of the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you
think the author decided to make his story such a large part of the book?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In April 1931 Molly was declared to no longer be
a ward of the state and was “restored to competency.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She “could finally spend her money as she
pleased, and was recognized as a full-fledged American citizen” (page 248).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you surprised to learn that it had taken
so long?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How have things changed that Native Americans
now feel proud of their heritage?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you
think this book and the movie based on it have helped?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Would you recommend this book to a friend?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why or why not?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-82215320408452146782024-02-21T07:55:00.000-08:002024-02-21T07:55:56.247-08:00Mad Honey, by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan<p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>McAfee family<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Campanello family<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Olivia McAfee
- zoologist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Asher Fields
– son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Brandon
Fields – husband, divorced, abusive<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Parents –
apiarists<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jordan –
brother, defense attorney<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Selena – wife,
investigator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sam – son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dirk –
Asher’s friend, co-captain of hockey team with Asher<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Margot –
Brandon’s second wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Shane and
Shawn – sons<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lily –
cutting, attempted suicide (previously Liam)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ava – mother,
National Forest Service<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jonal and Sorel
– boyfriend and friend at old school, planned attack<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dr. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Monica Powers – preformed Lily’s surgery<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Maya Banjaree
– friend of both Asher and Lily<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Deepa and
Sharon – mothers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lieutenant
Mike Newcomb<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Judge Rhonda
Byers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Assistant
Attorney General Gina Jewett<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Elizabeth
(Edgar) – owner of music shop<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dr. Benjamin
Oluwye – pathologist, clotting disorder<o:p></o:p></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from hardback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How did the beekeeping scenes add to the
story?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you think the authors chose
that occupation for Asher’s mother?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Lily had faked being happy for so long, she
could not remember how to be sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
therapist told her to fake being sad until she remembered how.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think this was good advice?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss the importance of music and playing the
cello was to Lily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did this add to
her character?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Both mothers kept secrets from their
children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think Olivia should
have told Asher about his father’s violent nature?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was there anything Ava could have done to
help Lily’s father accept her?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When thinking about how people have acted toward
her, Lily, in her chapter 5, thinks, “I think that what they hate is
difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What they hate is that the
world is complicated in ways they can’t understand” (page 218).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think this is a good description?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Lily came to Adams High, she chose not to
join the Rainbow Alliance at the school and instead, acted as if she was not
transgender and dated Asher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
wondered if it was “just internalized transphobia?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is my love for him actually a weird way of
hating myself?” (page 219). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you
think she did what she did?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the writing style – jumping among
characters and time lines, the numbered lists, the inclusion of information about
beekeeping and forestry?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What was the purpose of the list, “Five Things
About the Bible” on page 211?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you think Maya should have been arrested
since, when she and Lily were fighting over the phone, she “shoved her away”
(page 426)?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The authors addressed many controversial
subjects in this book such as racial prejudice, sexual orientation,
self-cutting, suicide, abusive husbands, treatment of prisoners in jail, the
legal system, abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was this too
much?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Jodi Picoult often tackles difficult subjects in
her books:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i>My Sister’s Keeper</i> – genetically
engineered child to provide organs for first child<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Nineteen Minutes</i> – school shooting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i>The Pact</i> – teen suicide<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Sing You Home </i>– gay rights<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in;">How well did this book address
this issue?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you think she decided
to work with a co-author on this book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did the book lead you to think about gender
differently?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On page 392 there was a
list of things we assign gender to such as hurricanes and ships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On 392 and 393 the authors wrote “that even
sound is gendered.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the brass
instruments in an orchestra are played by boys; in the woodwind’s, bassoon and
clarinets by boys but flutes by girls; with stringed instruments the deeper the
tone the more likely the musician will be a boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did her approach to transgenders give you any
new insights?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How well did she and her
co-author approach the issue?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you
think the book will be banned in some schools?<o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-68322288706243215932024-02-21T07:54:00.000-08:002024-02-21T07:54:25.634-08:00Varina, by Charles Frazier<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>1906 – Saratoga Springs<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">James Blake
“Jimmie Limber”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Varina<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>First Days
Among the Contrabands</i>, a memoir by Elizabeth Hyde Botume (writes about
James in book)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>1842 – The Hurricane and Brierfield<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Davis
family:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Joseph – father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Eliza – young
wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Daughters –
Florida (oldest), two others<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Benjamin
Montgomery – slave, runs The Hurricane<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jefferson
Davis – Joseph’s brother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pemberton –
slave/companion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Knoxie –
first wife, daughter of Zacharay Taylor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Varina<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Winchester – tutor,
lawyer – accompanied Varina to the Davis home, owned property and freed
slaves<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Betrothed and
married to Jefferson Davis at age 18<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>1862 – Richmond<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Davis became
president of the Southern States, inauguration in Richmond<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ellen Barnes
– main cook, helped with children<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mary O’Melia
– head housekeeper<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>1865 – escaping to Florida<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Varina<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Children:
Samuel (died), Maggie, Jeffy (died age 21), Joe (fell off balcony and died),
Jimmie Limber, Billy (died age 10), Winnie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ellen Barnes
– Slave, companion, helped with children<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Delrey –
driver<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mary Chestnut
– Abbeville, friend of Varina<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Stayed with
her for few days, never saw again<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">James Morgan,
officer, and Burton Harris, Jefferson’s secretary – accompanying family<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ryland and
Bristol – cadets, met family in Georgia and went with them<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Wiggins
Family – hog farm, shared food<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Burned
Plantation – Elgin, son of owner and slaves including Belle who raised him<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Elgin shot
Ryland, Bristol shot Elgin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>1865 - 1867<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Children to
Canada with Varina’s mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jeff in
prison, set free after two years<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Varina
traveled with Burton Harrison<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>1877<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jeff in
Biloxi, Mississippi with Sara Dorsey, writing memoir <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Varina in
Europe, then at boarding house owned by Mary O’Melia<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ellen married<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Varina recovered
stolen painting my Whislet<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jefferson
Davis died 1889<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Varina died
1906<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Were you surprised with all of the drug use
(“medicine”) in the novel?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think
that was common in that time period?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Varina married Jeff, she discovered that
Joseph had control over both houses and all of the money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If something happened to Jefferson, Varina
would have nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also had no say
in the design of the new house being built for her family as well as taking in
another poor family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does this and
the previous question reflect the attitude toward women at that time?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Jeff was president and Varina was walking
down the street, she got a lot of attention when people recognized her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She thought, “Fame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All it means is, people who don’t know one
true thing about you get to have opinions and feel entitled to aim their
screeds you way” (page 272).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did this
make you think of today’s celebrities any differently?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Jefferson met up with Varina and the family in
May 1865 as they were escaping to Florida and Cuba.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Varina kept telling him to go, but he stayed
too long and he and the family were captured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A former confederate officer, Basil Duke, thought that what Jefferson
wanted “most, was justification, to defend himself in court and be hanged if he
lost” (page 263).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you understand his
reasoning? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why would he put his family
in danger?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->It was mentioned twice that Varina’s skin color
was “a shade darker than everybody else” (page 326), this time when she was reminiscing
with her classmate, Sara Dorsey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Earlier in the book the author wrote, “V blushed, but one of the
benefits of being brownish is that often nobody notices” (page 89).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you think the author made a point of
this?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Should Varina have also been help responsible
for her husband’s actions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was it
unrealistic to think she would be treated any differently than she was when
they were fleeing in 1865?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she and
her family were passing through Charlotte the people “shouted curses largely
aimed at her husband, but since he wasn’t present to absorb them, she would
have to do” (page 60).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Varina was in London, the author wrote,
“Being on the wrong side of history carries consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>V lived that truth every day…Even if your
sin…had been simply to live in the wrong place, you suffered” (page 38).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you agree?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Is this fair and can it be changed in people’s perception?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did this novel give you any different insights
into slavery?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you surprised at the
relationships between the owners and slaves?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For example, when Varina told James she went to Ellen’s wedding, he replied,
“Even years after the war, you thought of Ellen simply as your friend?” (page
312).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, Jeff and Joseph sold the
plantation to Benjamin Montgomery, Joseph’s slave.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why did the author refer to Varina as “V”
throughout the book?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the organization of the book and
how the author kept jumping around in time?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How long did it take you to figure out that the symbol of the two
parallel lines indicated moving to James and Varina in 1906?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-28172648168324533162024-01-24T12:11:00.000-08:002024-01-24T12:11:43.014-08:00The Guest List, by Lucy Foley<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The Folly –
resort, 10 rooms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Aoife –
wedding planner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Freddy – cook,
former student at Trevellyan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Will Slater
and Julia Keegan – bride and groom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Will –
reality TV star, “Survive the Night”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Julia –
online magazine, “The Download”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Olivia –
Julia’s sister<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. Stater -
Will’s father, headmaster at Trevellyan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charlie and
Hannah <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charlie –
Julia’s best friend, groomsman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Alice –
Hannah’s sister<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Groomsmen –
students from Trevellyan:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Johnno – best
man, worked at an adventure center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Femi –
surgeon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Angus - works
in father’s development fund<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Duncan –
venture capitalist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Peter –
advertising<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Piers –
producer of Will’s show<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Darcey Malone
“Loner” – killed by Will and Johnno at Trevellyan, Aoife’s brother<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the hardback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If you read <i>The Dictionary of Lost Words,</i>
by Pip Williams, historical fiction about the writing of the Oxford English
Dictionary, what did you think when you read the word “knackered “ in this
novel?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Were there any positive characters in the
story?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about Hannah who tried to
help Olivia, or her husband Charlie?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Many of the characters were hiding things;
Olivia hid from Jules that she knew Will, Will hid the same thing from Jules as
well as keeping the truth about the TV show from Johnno.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were there any other secrets?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you think Olivia and Will should have told
Jules about their relationship?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would it
have mattered?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why do you think they did what they did to
Charlie at the stag party?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did your thoughts about the characters change as
you read through the novel?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->As you were reading, who did you think wrote the
note to Jules?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did your ideas change?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the way the author hinted at things
and made the reader want to find the answers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Were all of your questions answered?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For example, from Johnno’s chapters:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
88: “Ah, so he didn’t tell her anything about what went down…The less said
about all of that the better.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
94 about the reunion of the school friends: “When we get together there’s this
kind of pack mentality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We get carried
away.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
113: “And the sound of the waves there, too…Reminding me to keep the secret.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why did the students at Trevellyan do the things
they did?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think the
administration knew what was going on, and perhaps what really happened to
“Loner”?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Will turned out the be an evil character: he
killed Loner, had an affair with Olivia and did not tell Jules, dated Alice and
posted a hurtful video on line, and lied to Johnno about Piers’ interest in
having him on the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did he have any
redeeming characteristics?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Were you surprised at the ending?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you think the author should have given
the reader some hints earlier in the story?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Would you have gone to a wedding at The Folly?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-55599953607760855822023-11-25T07:57:00.000-08:002023-11-25T07:57:27.932-08:00The writing of the Oxford English Dictionary - nonfiction and historical fiction<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>The Professor and the Madman</i></b>, Simon Winchester<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>The Dictionary of Lost Words</i></b>, Pip Williams<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Oxford
English Dictionary “OED”<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">First Edition
– 70 years to produce, 12 volumes, completed 1928<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Second
Edition – 20 volumes, completed 1978<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i>The
Professor and the Madman</i> – nonfiction<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i>The
Dictionary of Lost Words</i> – historical fiction<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">James Murray
– first editor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Left school
at age 14 - self-taught<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">First lecture
“Reading, Its’ Pleasures and Advantages”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Interested in
phonetics – symbols used to represent speech sounds in a language<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ada – second
wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">11 children<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Scriptorium –
shed in back of home to work on dictionary<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Bondmaid</b>
– only word lost<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William Minor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Surgeon,
former military in America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Asylum for
the Criminally Insane, Broadmoor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">George Merrett
– killed by Minor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Eliza Merrett
– widow<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Esme Nicoll<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Da – father<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lily – mother,
deceased<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Megan – Esme’s daughter, adopted by Phillip and Sarah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Edith Thompson “Ditte” – godmother<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Elizabeth “Beth” – sister, <i>A</i> <i>Dragoon’s Wife</i>,
1907<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><u><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Provided spoken words</span></u><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Mrs. Ballard – cook<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Lizzie – servant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Mabel O’Shaughnessy – market stall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Tilda Taylor – actress, suffragette <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Bill – Tilda’s brother, Megan’s father<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><u><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Scriptorium<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Dr. James Murray, editor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Da – Mr. Harry Nicoll<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Murray daughters: Elsie, Rosfrith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><u><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Oxford University Press<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Mr. Hart – “Hart’s Rules,” In charge of printing
dictionary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Gareth Owen – compositor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><u><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Old Ashmolean – Dictionary Room</span></u><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> – August 1901<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Mr. Bradley – second editor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Mr. Craigie – third editor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Eleanor Bradley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Bondmaid </span></b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">– word that fell under table and was rescued by Esme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The Professor and the Madman<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>NOTE: Page numbers are from the hardback edition.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Murray’s goal was to include all words written
down, when written first, and a “passage quoted from literature that showed where
each word was used first” (page 105).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That was followed by “sentence that show the twists and turns of meaning”
(page 105).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you imagine undertaking
such a task?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the format of the book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Beginning
each chapter with a word and definition pertinent to that chapter.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Ending
the book explaining why the book is dedicated to George Merrett.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Do you think Murray would have accepted Minor’s
help if he knew the situation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Minor contacted the victim’s widow and she
agreed to visit him as well as accept money from him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you surprised that she agreed to see
him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The Dictionary of Lost Words<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">NOTE:
Page numbers are from paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<ol start="5" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Which characters did you particularly like, or
dislike?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How well did the author
bring them to life?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Discuss Lizzie and Mabel O’Shaughnessy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lizzie told Esme, “Nothing I ever said
has been written down” (page 103).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How did it make them feel when Esme wrote down what they said?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, Lizzie said she did needlepoint
because “it proves I exist…Everything I do gets eaten, dirtied or burned –
at the end of the day there’s no proof I’ve been here at all” (page 33).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think someone could have those
feelings today?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">When Esme thinks about her daughter, the words
“Her” and “She” are capitalized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What did that signify?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">At the end of the book, Esme and Lizzie took <i>Women’s
Words and Their Meanings</i> to show Mr. Madden at the Bodleian
Library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in 1915 he told her
the book was “of no scholarly importance” (page 338).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esme replied, “It fills a gap in
knowledge, and surely that is the purpose of scholarship” (page 338).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you surprised that nothing had
changed since 1887?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">What did you learn from this book about the
evolution of women’s roles in the early 1900’s?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How important was the inclusion of
women’s suffrage to the story of the dictionary?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ol start="10" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Did reading this book make you think about words
differently? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Page 89 – words only included in dictionary “if
someone great had written them down.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Page 127 – words “change as they are passed from
mouth to mouth; their meanings stretch or truncate to fit what needs to
be said.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Page 129 – “A vulgar word, well placed and said
with just enough vigor, can express far more that its polite equivalent.”
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Page 181 – regarding swear words, “They are like
bullets, full of energy, and when you give one breath you can feel its
sharp edge against your lip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
can be quite cathartic in the right context.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">From
both books:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">How does the way people speak and the words they
use influence how you regard them?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">These books presented two different narratives
about the writing of the OED.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did
reading one make you want to read the other?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Every year the OED adds words that have been adopted
in our general conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
2023 some of the words are Krampus, flirtiness, dockie, figuralism,
jailable, and live-fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also
updated the meaning of words such as curtsy, deprive, six-pack, flirtish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would James Murray think about this
practice?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-58196947324901804342023-11-25T07:54:00.000-08:002023-11-25T07:54:54.724-08:00This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Lincoln Indian Training School<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>People met along the journey<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Odie O’Banion
– alias Buck Jones<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Albert
O’Banion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Moses
Washington – couldn’t speak<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Emmy Frost<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Thelma and Clyde
Brickman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Herman Volz –
carpentry shop and boy’s advisor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Vincent
DeMarco – staff, abused students, died by falling into quarry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cora Frost –
homemaking skills, Emmy her daughter, killed by tornado<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hector
Bledsoe – farmer, boys worked in hay field<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Albert Seifert
– local banker, scout master, transferred for refusing to foreclose on farms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Billy Red
Sleeve – disappeared, body found in quarry<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Abigail –
girl at clothesline, Odie took clothes and left money<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jack – one
eyed “pig scarer” – forced boys to work, kept Emmy in house, shot dead by
Odie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Forrest “Hawk
Flies at Night” – Sioux Indian, discovered Emmy could talk Sioux<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Sword of
Gideon Healing Crusade<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sister Eve –
gave people hope<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sid – trumpet
player and business manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dimitri –
cook<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Whisker –
piano player<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lucifer –
rattlesnake<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Hooverville<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Powell
Schofield<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sarah – wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Alice Beal –
mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Children –
Marybeth, Lester and Lydia<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Captain Bok
Gray<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Saint Paul<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gertie
Hellmann – told would offer help<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Flo –
waitress, partner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Wooster
Morgan – boat storage and repair shop<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Truman Waters
– Flo’s brother, towboat<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kids – John
Kelly (Shlomo Goldstein), Mook, Chili<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">One-eyed Jack
– met at post office<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Saint
Louis<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Aunt Julia –
Odie’s mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dolores<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sword of
Gideon Healing Crusade<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did this book give you any insight into how
American Indians were treated?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What were
your thoughts about the Lincoln Indian Trading School?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later on in the novel, when they were on the
road, Odie reflected that at least they had beds, a roof over their heads
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>somewhat regular food.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What did you think the story was behind Jack,
the pig scarer, Sophie and Angel?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
about the bed in the attic that was slashed and destroyed?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you think Sister Eve was real or a
hoax?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did she think and how did
she justify what Sid did, paying off the people who had been previously healed?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss Emmy and her “fits”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems like she knows or senses things
during the episodes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, when
the group decided to stay with the revival for a while and they went to tell
Emmy, she had been sleeping and when they woke her, she said “I knew that”
(page 204).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, after they had found
the Indian skeleton, she woke up from an episode and said, “They’re dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re all dead…I couldn’t help them, I
tried but I couldn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was already
done” (page 292).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They found out later
that 38 were killed there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did she
know this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Sister Eve told Odie that Emmy was able to see
into the future and make slight changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is why Odie did not fall all the way into the quarry but was
stopped by an outcropping, the bullet missed Jack’s heart by an inch, and
Albert was able to stay alive long enough for the snake serum to arrive and
save him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These three things were all
related to Odie and averted a tragedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How important was this to the story?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Mose was very quiet and withdrawn after finding
and visiting the Indian graveyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Odie
realized he had no family to remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Sister Eve told each of them what they were seeking, she told Mose that he “was
looking for who he was” (page 271).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sister Eve also told him that his Sioux name was “Amdacha…Broken to
Pieces” (page 271).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did Sister Eve
know this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did this information help
us understand Mose?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why did Odie give all of their money to the
Scholfields?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He felt “that giving Mr.
Schofield that money had felt so good, so intoxicating, that if I’d had enough,
I would have done my best to save them all” (page 316).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why didn’t he think of his brother and
friends and how much they needed the money?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When one-eyed Jack ran into Odie at the post
office in Saint Paul, he told Odie that he had saved him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had quit drinking and found and reunited
with Aggie and Sophie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you want
more information about this part of the story?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did the like the ending – how everything was
wrapped up in the Epilogue? Did you have any questions left unanswered?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Which were your favorite characters in the story?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did you like best about them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aside from the Brickman’s and DeMarco, were
there any villains?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the last paragraph where Odie, as
the narrator, writes, “Some of what I’ve told you is true and some…well, let’s
just call it the bloom on the rosebush.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He ended, “Far better, I believe to be like
children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is
nothing our hearts scan imagine that is not so” (page 444).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was your favorite part of the
story?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did you want to be true or
possible?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon reflection, did this
change how you thought about the novel and the story?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-51673794212233547382023-10-30T08:38:00.001-07:002023-10-30T08:38:54.973-07:00Black Cake, by Charmaine Wilkerson<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Then<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Now<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Coventina
Brown “Covey”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mathilda –
mother, disappeared<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Johnny “Lin”
Lyncook – father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pearl –
family helper<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gibbs Grant -
boyfriend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bunny –
Covey’s friend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Clarence
Henry “Little Man” – was to marry Covey<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">“Short Shirt”
Higgins – tried to poison Percival, took suspicion from Covey for Little
Man’s death<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Percival
Henry – Little Man’s brother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Eleanor
(Covey) – raped by boss, gave daughter up for adoption<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Eleanor
Douglas “Elly” – killed in train crash, Covey took her identity<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Eleanor
Bennett – Covey<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bert Bennett
– Gibbs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bryon – son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Benedetta “Benny” – daughter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lynette –
Bryon’s girlfriend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Marble Martin
– Eleanor’s daughter given up for adoption, cookbook author<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Husband –
deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gio – son,
boarding school<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Etta “Bunny”
Pringle – distance swimmer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charles
Martin - lawyer<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the 2022 paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->As you were reading the book, who did you think
the characters were in the Prologue?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How long did it take for you to figure out who everyone was?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What was the message Pearl was sending Covey
with the lilac flowers on top of the wedding cake?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Finally, Covey understood what she was
looking at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a small consolation,
but it was something” (page 120).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Who did you think poisoned “Little Man?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did Pearl have the bottle of poison?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did not find out until the very end of the
novel that it was Bunny who poisoned his champagne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you surprised?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bunny and Covey kept that secret for ever –
would it have changed anything if the truth were known years later?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Eleanor was pregnant with her first
daughter, she was taken in by nuns who gave her no choice but to give up the
baby for adoption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How would keeping the
baby have changed both Eleanor’s and Marble’s life?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Eleanor decided the baby deserved “something
that Eleanor was not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eleanor wanted to
keep her baby, but she saw that who you knew yourself to be on the inside was
not the same as how others saw you” (page 182).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you understand her decision?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Twice the author used the phrase “kissed her
teeth.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What action do you think this
is?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Who do you think is responsible for the rift
between Benny and her parents?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she
told her parents, Byron also did not reach out to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given Eleanor’s history, do you think she
should have been more understanding?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who is to blame?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->At one point, Benny crashed a AAA meeting
because she was looking for a place where she was unconditionally
accepted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She “was tired of having her
authenticity as a person called into question simply because she did not fit
the roles that others wanted her to play” (page 214).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed that Eleanor could have easily
understood this feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you
think she did not?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss Byron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He came and stayed with Eleanor and “did everything for his mother while
Benny was off who know where” (page 224).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Did you understand his resentment?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Was there anything he could have done?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Upon reflection after both of his parents passed
away, Byron wondered “if his parents gave him a gift or did him a disservice to
make him think all these years that he was something special” (page 278).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that he was alone, he didn’t “know
anymore if his life has really made that much of a difference to anyone or
anything” (page 278).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What insight did
this give you into his character in the novel?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Did you think he was making a difference in the world?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did his repeated experiences of being pulled
over while driving for no reason give you insight and any understanding of this
situation faced by black males today?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was Eleanor right to keep the secrets from her
husband and children for her entire life?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the ending of the novel, the way
many of the stories were wrapped up and resolved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, what did you think of
Mathilda’s story?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would that have
changed anything for Covey if she had known what had happened to her mother and
that she had planned to come back for her?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Black Cake and recipe were the thread
running throughout the novel and united several of the characters including
Benny and Marble at the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you
tempted to try the recipe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does your
family have any food traditions?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-75268770956208837532023-10-30T08:37:00.000-07:002023-10-30T08:37:29.101-07:00Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, by Jennifer Chiaverini<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Elizabeth
Keckley<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">George – son
of Alexander Kirkland (rape)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">James –
husband, deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Emma – friend
and seamstress<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Clients:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Varina Davis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mary Jane
Welles – wife of Secretary of Navy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Margaret
Cameron - wife of Secretary of War<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Adele Douglas
– widow of Stephen Douglas<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Virginia
Lewis – landlady<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Garland
family – former owners<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Miss Ann<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Martha – friend
from slavery days<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Contraband
Relief Association 1862 – 1865<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Founded by
Eliabeth and 40 women from her church<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">James Redpath
– editor, G. W. Carleton and Co. Publishers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bishop Daniel
Payne - Wilberforce University in Ohio<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Offered
Elizabeth position as head of the Department of Sewing and Domestic Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mary Todd
Lincoln<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Abraham Lincoln<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Willie – son,
deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Robert – son,
college, fought in war, became a lawyer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Tad – son, died
1871<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Emilie Helm –
Mary Todd’s sister, widow of confederate general<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kate Chase –
insulted Mrs. Lincoln, became social rivals<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Salmon Chase
– father, Secretary of Treasury, Chief Justice Supreme Court<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cabinet
Members and others Mary Todd had feuds with or did not like:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Salmon Chase<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John George
Nicolay – president’s personal secretary<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William
Seward – Secretary of State<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Andrew
Johnson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">General
McClellan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">General
Ulysses S. Grant<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jefferson
Davis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Varina – wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William H.
Herndan – Lincoln’s law partner, wrote book about Lincoln<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. Keyes and
Mr. W. H. Brady – offered to sell clothing and jewelry <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Behind the
Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House</i>,
Elizabeth Keckley, 1868<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Herndon’s
Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life</i>, William Herndon and Jesse W.
Weik, 1889<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the 2016 paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->At the beginning of the war, it was thought it
would only last a short period of time and recruits were only enlisted for 90
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given that we know the length of
the conflict and the massive number of deaths, how well did the author describe
the feelings of the day?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Mary Todd was criticized for her lavish
spending, both on the restoration of the White House and, later, on
herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was this criticism justified
or did she have a duty to keep up appearances?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Even during the war, she continued to spend
large amounts of money on her clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why was she not able to control her spending?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you know that her family were all from the
south and that her brother, three half-brothers and three brothers-in-law were
serving in the Confederate Army?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
south, where she grew up, she was considered a traitor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How was she able to handle this conflict?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Were you surprised that Elizabeth lied about
being married to George’s father in order to get a pension?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her advisors told her that George had earned
the pension for her and two ministers vouched that she was telling the truth.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Elizabeth kept following and visiting Mrs.
Lincoln at the expense of her own business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Was Mrs. Lincoln selfish or just unable to see the problems she was
causing Elizabeth?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Contraband Relief Association decided to
take a collection in the colored churches with the proceeds going to Mrs.
Lincoln, but “she did not want to accept help from Negros” (page 301).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you think she resisted this help?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Many people who Mrs. Lincoln thought would help
her actually betrayed her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example,
letters she wrote to Mr. Keyes and Mr. Brady about selling her clothes and
jewelry ended up being published in the newspaper and further damaged Mrs.
Lincoln’s reputation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why was she not
able to see what would happen?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did
people treat her this way?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Elizabeth wrote in the preface to her book,
“Mrs. Lincoln, by her own acts, forced herself into notoriety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stepped beyond the formal lines which
hedge about private life, and invited public criticism” (page 311).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was this fair?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Mrs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lincoln’s letters were published in Elizabeth’s book even though she
expressly asked that they not be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
editor, Mr. Redpath, thought the letters were essential and that the entire
book would improve Mrs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lincoln’s
reputation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did you think?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The book was not well received by both Mrs.
Lincoln’s supporters and those who disliked her as well as the colored people
who were afraid they would not be hired for fear they would write a book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was this understandable?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fair?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What did you think of Robert’s care for his
mother?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had her declared insane and
committed from 1875 to 1876. Was he correct in his actions?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you learn anything new about this period in
our history?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-21544461437529277402023-09-30T08:48:00.000-07:002023-09-30T08:48:03.238-07:00As Bright as Heaven, by Susan Meissner<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>1918-1919<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>1925-1926<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pauline
-mother (died)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Thomas –
father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Henry –
deceased baby<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Evelyn “Evie”
– 15<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Maggie – 12<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Willa – 6<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Grandpa and
Grandma (Eunice) Adler – Quakertown<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jane –
Pauline’s sister<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Uncle Fred –
Bright Funeral Home (died)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mrs. Landry –
housekeeper<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mrs. Brewster
– does hair and makeup<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sutcliff
Accounting – neighbors<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Roland and
Darla – parents<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charlie
(died)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jamie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Evelyn –
school<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. Galway –
teacher (died)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gilbert Keane
– student (died)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Willa –
school<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Florence
“Flossie”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gretchen
Weiss – German (died)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Maggie –
school<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sally (died)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Wendell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ruby <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Thomas<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Evelyn “Evie”
– medical school, psychiatrist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Maggie – did
make-up and hair <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Willa –
singer “Polly Adler”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Alex - Leo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ursula Novak<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cal Dabney –
Alex’s father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Rita and
Maury Dabney – parents<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Darla and
Roland Sutcliff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jamie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Palmer
Towlerton – courting Maggie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dr. Bellfield
– Fairview Hospital<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Conrad Reese<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sybil –
patient<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Silver Swan –
speakeasy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. Trout<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Albert<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lila – singer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. Weiss –
rescues Willa when club raided<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Landmark Club<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lila<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When we first met Maggie, she was in school and
having trouble with math.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was
hesitant to ask Evelyn for help because, “asking my sister for help is like
asking to be stung by bees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow she
makes me feel stupid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think she
means to, but she does” (page 61).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have
you ever felt that way when asking for help?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do you think you ever made someone else feel that way?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you avoid that?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Could you understand Maggie’s actions when she
took the baby?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she looked back,
the sister had disappeared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about
when she lied and said she could not remember the address when she went back to
check on the family?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The afternoon after she took Alex, Maggie went
to the church to tell Mrs. Arnold the partial truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She thought, “I suddenly realize sometimes
things aren’t simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes you do a
bad thing for good reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes
you do a good thing for a bad reason” (page 150).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did Maggie do a good thing, a bad thing, or
something in between?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you understand Eunice Adler’s response when
she said no to Pauline’s request to return to Quakertown during the Spanish Flu
because she was protecting her other daughter and baby?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you understand Thomas blaming Pauline’s
mother then for her death?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Maggie had conversations with the bodies she was
working on in the embalming room. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did
this surprise you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think you
could do that type of work?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the ending and the way everything
was wrapped up?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, Willa
still sneaking out to sing in a speakeasy and Evelyn is married and taking care
of her husband’s first wife.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Do you think you would have read this book
differently before COVID?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-42324038326780226712023-09-30T08:46:00.001-07:002023-09-30T08:46:44.696-07:00The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Singer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Spiros
Antonapoulos<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jake Blount<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kelly family:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Father –
watch repair, took in borders<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mother <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mick – 12
years old<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bubber<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ralph – baby<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hazel –
second oldest<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bill – oldest<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Etta<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dr. Benedict
Mady Copeland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Daisy – wife,
deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Portia –
Kelly’s cook<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Highboy –
Portia’s husband<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William
“Willie” – works in New York Café kitchen, in jail due to fight over a girl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hamilton<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Karl Marx “Bubby”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">New York Café<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bartholomew
“Biff” Brannon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Alice – wife,
deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lucile –
Alice’s sister<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">“Baby” Wilson
– groomed to be child movie star<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sunny Dixie
Show – carnival, rides<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Patterson –
owner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. B. F.
Mason – pretended to be from government signing people up for pensions,
really a thief <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Harry
Minowitz – Mick’s schoolmate, Jewish<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">People who
visited Singer on a regular basis:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dr. Copeland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mick Kelly<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jake Blount<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Biff Brannon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the 2000 paperback.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss Mick and her outside and inside worlds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“School and the family and the things that
happened every day were in the outside room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mister Singer was in both rooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Foreign countries and plans and music were in the inside room” (page
163).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you understand her
feelings?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why was Singer in both rooms?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What did you think about Mick hosting a prom
party?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you have been willing to
take such a risk in high school?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->At the party, Mick and Harry Minowitz went off
along and had sex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result, Harry
left home because he was afraid his mother would be able to tell what he had
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could this have been avoided at
the time?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you see it coming when Bubber shot Baby
Wilson?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bubby ran away and, when Mick
found him, she made up a story about the electric chair and then going to
Hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His father thought it was
deliberate (page 170).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you think he
meant to shoot her?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was it his fault?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss Dr. Copeland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His mother was born a slave and his father
was a preacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He worked for 10 years
to become a doctor, returned to the south, and, while taking care of people
“went endless from house to house and spoke the mission and the truth” (page
143).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also hit his wife with a
poker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did you think his mission
was?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does his violence toward his wife
affect your opinion?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What did you think about Dr. Copeland talking
about Karl Marx and socialism at his Christmas party?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why do you think Jake talked so much to Singer
when he could not hear him or understand everything he said?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why were so many people drawn to Singer?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did he affect the people he came in
contact with?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biff, when thinking about
Singer asked himself, “why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was
exactly as they wanted him to be” (page 224).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why do you think this was?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why was Spiros Antonapoulos in the novel?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did we learn from him about Singer?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why did Singer commit suicide?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->McCullers was 23 when she wrote this novel, her
first one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How was she able to have such
insight into people as well as the plight of African Americans in the 1930s at
such a young age?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Martin Luther King organized a march on
Washington for jobs and freedom for his race in 1963.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book was written in 1940 and Dr.
Copeland and Jake discussed just such an event (pages 301-305).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where do you think the author got this idea?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->This novel was named to both the Modern
Library’s “100 Best English Novels of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century” and Time
magazine’s “100 Best English Novels 1923-2005.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why do you think it was accorded these honors?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-76163283868420907982023-09-30T08:45:00.002-07:002023-09-30T08:45:34.870-07:00The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Fikry, A. J.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Nic – wife,
deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Island Books<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ismay
Evans-Parish – Nic’s sister, teacher, directs school plays<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Daniel Parish
– husband, A. J.’s friend, novelist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Chief
Lambiase<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Amelia Loman
“Amy” – sales rep for Knightley Press<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Maya
Tamerlane Firky – toddler left in bookstore, adopted by A. J.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Marian
Wallace – mother, suicide<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Tamerlane</i>
– by Edgar Allan Poe<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Leonora
Ferris – author, <i>The Late Bloomer</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Leon Friedman
– pen name<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the 2014 paperback edition<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->One of the customers, Mrs. Cumberbatch, wants to
return <i>The Book Thief</i> because it was narrated by Death, it kept her up
reading all night, and the novel made her cry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What did you think of her complaints?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What would make you return or throw away a book?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Could you relate to A. J.’s complaints about
Maya – “She’s worse than a puppy…She’s not potty trained and I have no idea how
to do that…We talk about Elmo, and I can’t stand him…She’s totally
self-centered” (page 60 and 61)?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->He also complained that “she always wants to
read the same book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it’s like, the
crappiest board book, <i>The Monster at the End of the Book</i>” (page
61).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was your favorite book as a
child?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->There was lots of quotes about books and
reading, such as “Sometimes books don’t find us until the right time” (page
92).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever experienced something
like that – feeling a book was yours to read at exactly the right time in your
life?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Firky said “You know everything you need to know
about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
(page 87).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is your favorite book
and what does it say about you?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss Leonora Ferris/Leon Friedman and the
book <i>The Late Bloomer.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book
was fiction, but to help it sell Leonora called it a memoir and hired Leon to
portray the author at signing events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Was that deceitful?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you think it was Leonora who read at the
wedding (page 157)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If so, why would she
be invited to do so?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss the storyline of the book, Tamerlane,
throughout the novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ismay stole it
and gave it to Marian Wallace to sell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then Lambaise found it and the sale funded A. J.’s surgery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why didn’t Marian sell the book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did this storyline add to the novel?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Firky was very upset when his mother gave him,
Amelia, and Maya e-readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said to
her, “do you even understand that that infernal device is not only going to
single-handedly destroy my business but, worse than that, send centuries of a
vibrant literary culture into what will surely be an unceremonious and rapid
decline?” (page 217).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you agree?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you prefer actual books or e-readers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->After his surgery A.J. preferred to read short
stories because of his decreased attention span.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told Maya, “novels certainly have their
charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story”
(page 246).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you agree?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you like short stories?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why or why not?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The chapter titles are short stories that A J.
describes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you think he is
creating the list?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you read any of
the stories?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was that an effective way
to introduce each chapter?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Ismay and Lambiase were thinking about
running the bookstore they discussed the following.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you agree?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->“There
ain’t nobody in the world like book people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a business of gentleman and gentlewomen.” (page 254).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->“I
like talking about books with people who like talking about books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I like how it feel…I like how a new book smells, too.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(page 255)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What helped the new book store be a success?<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the ending?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-6117241111168689502023-08-18T08:38:00.001-07:002023-08-18T08:38:31.612-07:00Atonement, by Ian McEwan<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Atonement,</i></b> by Ian McEwan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Part One - 1935<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Briony Tallis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Emily –
mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jack – father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cecilia –
older sister<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Leon – older
brother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cousins:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lola – 15<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jackson and
Pierrot – twins<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hermione
(Emily’s sister) and Cecil – parents, divorced<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Staff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Robbie Turner
– Grace’s son (cleaning lady), schooling financed by Jack<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hardman –
handyman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Danny Hardman
– son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Betty – cook<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Paul Marshall
– Leon’s friend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">“The Trials
of Arabella”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Part Two – WWII<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Robbie –
released after serving 3 ½ years in jail following night in Part One<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Corporal
Nettle – lorry driver<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Corporal Mace
– cook<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cecilia –
left family, nurse<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Briony –
student nurse<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Fiona –
friend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sister
Marjorie Drummond<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lola and Paul
Marshall married<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cecilia and Robbie
– both died in 1940<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Part Four - 1999<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Briony, age
77 – vascular dementia<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lola and Paul
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the hardback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Section One ended without any information about
the missing twins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did that bother you?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->At the beginning of chapter thirteen the author
wrote, “Within the hour Briony would commit her crime” (page146).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time, what do you think she did?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Briony found Lola, she never said who had
attacked her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Briony said, “It was Robbie,
wasn’t it?” (page 156) and Lola did not correct her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you think she did not correct
Briony?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is she also complicit in the
event?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->At one point later on, Lola said to Briony, “It
might not have been him” (page 161).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Briony replied, “You wouldn’t be saying that if you’d been with me in
the library” (page 161).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was Briony
actually punishing Robbie for what he did with Cecilia?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What part did the letter from Robbie to
Cecilia play in her actions?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Briony’s family knew how much she liked to write
stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should they have questioned her
more or investigated what happened more?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why were they so quick to accept her story?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why do you think Briony kept quiet about the
truth for so long?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why didn’t she do
something when Robbie was sent to jail?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Was her age at the time any excuse?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What part did Chapter Two about Robbie’s time in
the war play in the overall story?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss Briony’s time as a student nurse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before her training was complete, she was
working in the hospital for injured soldiers and made several mistakes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
275 – she almost dropped her end of the stretcher and, after getting the
soldier in bed, waited instead of heading back to the ward<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
277 – She told an injured man he could not rest before a procedure because she
was following protocol, but was corrected by a nurse<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
277 – She forgot and left injured men downstairs who she was going to bring up
on the lift<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph">She felt her training had been useful in obedience,
but that “everything she understood about nursing she learned that night” (page
286).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you think she learned?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are a nurse, can you relate to this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does this hold true for other professions?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The version of Briony’s novel in the book is the
one that will be published after she, Lola and Marshall are dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you think the remaining relatives will
feel about finally learning the truth?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you understand that Cecilia and Robbie never
were reunited and Briony never met with them and tried to tell others what
really happened?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On page 350 Briony
wrote, “Who would want to believe that they never met again, never fulfilled
their love? … When I am dead, and the Marshalls are dead, and the novel is
finally published, we will only exist in my inventions.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss your reading experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was there any time you were confused?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-92121151180393906172023-08-18T08:36:00.003-07:002023-08-18T08:36:58.783-07:00Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="font-weight: bold;">NOTE: </i>This novel had many words new to me. There is a vocabulary quiz at the end!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</i></b>, by
Gabrielle Zevin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Samson Mazer
- Harvard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Anna Lee –
mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">George Masur
– father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bong Cha –
grandmother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dong Hyun –
grandfather<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sadie Green<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sharyn –
mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Alice –
sister, childhood leukemia, Dr. Alice Green<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Freda Green –
grandmother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dov Mizrah –
Sadie’s professor at MIT<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Marx Watanbe
– Sam’s roommate, partner in Unfair Games<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Naomi
Watanabe Green – Sadie and Marx’s daughter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Unfair
Games<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sam and Sadie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Marx<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dov –
producer and equity partner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Zoe Cadogan –
composer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Simon Freeman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Anthony Ruiz
“Ant”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gordon,
receptionist<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sadie’s class
project games:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Emily
Blaster<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Solution<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Ichigo: A
Child of the Sea<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Ichigo II:
Go, Ichigo, Go<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Both Sides<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mapletown –
Alice Ma, cancer (two worlds – hospital and outside the hospital)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Myre Landing
– Rose the Mighty<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>The
Maplewood Experience</i> – MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing
game)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Free – money
earned from maintenance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mayor Mazer –
Sam’s avatar in Mapletown<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Counterpart
High</i> – four games, one for each year of high school<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Master of
the Revels<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Master of
the Revels: The Scottish Expansion</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">(Had an
Easter Egg of Marx hidden by Sadie)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Oregon
Train<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dr. Edna
Daedalus<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Emily <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Alabaster
Brown<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the hardback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When you first started the book, what were your
thoughts – confusion, stepping into the unknown, pleasant anticipation, or
something else?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was it right for Sadie to consider the time she
spent with Sam in the hospital as community service?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her grandmother, Freda Green, did not think
so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told Sadie that is might hurt
Sam’s feelings “if he thinks he is charity to you, and not a genuine
friendship” (page 23).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In Sadie’s class, Dov said that the game
designer had to think about the player at all times and that, “There is no
artist more empathetic than the game designer” (page 44).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did you think about this?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Could anything have been done to heal the divide
between Sam and Sadie?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Starting with the
release of <i>Ichigo II,</i> Sadie felt that Sam was always taking the
credit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, they each felt they moved
to California for the other one, not themselves.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->As you were reading, did you think that Sam and
Sadie would somehow end up together?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Would that have worked?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss the various characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were there any you did not like at all?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did the author do a good job of describing
each person?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Section VII when Marx is killed (The NPC) and
section IX (The Pioneers), were written in different styles that the rest of
the novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you like this? Was it
effective?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did the different writing
styles help you understand the shooting and death from Marx’s point of view and
the video game differently.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The novel had many thoughts on life and success
in general, such as:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
80 – “How your sense of self could change depending on your location.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
219 – Dov to Sadie about failure: “You take advantage of the quiet time that a
failure allows you…You try again. You fail better.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
247 – “The most successful people are also the most able to change their
mindsets.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Do you agree with these
statements?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were there other ideas in
the book that you thought insightful?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did reading this book cause you to think
differently about computer and video games?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For example, on page 18 Sam said playing video games requires hand-eye
coordination and observing patterns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And when Sadie was going to visit Sam in the hospital to play games, the
author wrote that to play with another person, “means allowing yourself to be
open, to be exposed, to be hurt” (page 21).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Also, Marx’s mother, Mrs. Watanabe who taught
textile design, told Sadie, “Computers are great for experimentation, but they
are bad for deep thinking” (page 230).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do you agree?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why was this book on the New York Times
hardcover best seller list for almost a year?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What were your thoughts about the book when you
were finished?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you recommend it
to a friend?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think different age
groups would read the book differently?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Vocabulary Quiz!!!<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Answers are at the bottom of the
page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No peeking!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">_____ 1. grok
(page 77<u>)</u><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">_____ 2. cicerone
(page 65)<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">_____ 3. tautology
(page 41)<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">_____ 4. collogue
(page 131)<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">_____ 5. auteur
(page 132)<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">_____ 6. palimpsest
(page 214)<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">_____ 7. turpitude
(page 215)<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">_____ 8. susurrus
(page 283)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">needless
repetition of an idea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">confer
secretly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">a
soft murmuring or rustling sound<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">a
guide<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to
understand completely and intuitively<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">f.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">depravity,
a shameful act<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">g.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">filmmaker
with distinct individual style<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Answers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1-e<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2-d<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>3-a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4-b<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5-g<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>6-h<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7-f<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8-c<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-51591093103754479282023-07-29T08:42:00.000-07:002023-07-29T08:42:13.804-07:00Meet You in Hell, by Les Standiford<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>People and Events<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Andrew
Carnegie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Louise - wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Margaret -
daughter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Tom Carnegie
– brother, chairman of board<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Built 2,800
libraries<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Donated 8,000
organs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Carnegie
Institute of Technology – became Carnegie Mellon University<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Henry Clay
Frick – main manufacturer of coke<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Adelaide –
wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Martha –
daughter, died 1981<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Henry Clay
Frick Jr. – died<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Helen Clay -
daughter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Childs – son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Alexander
Berkman – assassin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Art collector
– Frick Collection in New York<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Frick Nature
Preserve<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Others<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Homestead Plant<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Henry
Bessemer – change iron into steel<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Edgar
Thompson<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Captain Jones<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charales
Schwab – replaced Jones<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Potter –
replaced Schwab as superintendent 1892<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Amalgamate
Assoc. of Iron and Steel Workers of the US<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1987 –
American Federation of Labor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Companies<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Homestead Strike<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Frick Coke
Company<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Carnegie,
Phipps and Company 1886<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Carnegie
Brothers and Company 1889<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Frick –
chairman and 11% interest<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Carnegie
Steel – merger of Carnegie, Phipps and Carnegie Bros. and Co.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charles
Schwab – president<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">United States
Steel Corporation 1900<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">$480,000,000
to buy out Carnegie and family<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charles
Schwab – president 2 years<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Elbert H.
Gray – president 26 years<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Henry Clay
Frick – board member<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William
McCleary – sheriff Allegheny County<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Samuel Cluely
– chief deputy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pinkertons –
strike breakers, July 5, called in by Frick July 1982<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hugh
O’Donnell – spoke for workers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">National
Guard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">General
Snowden<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers come from the 2005 paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Carnegie did not approve of Frick’s methods
during the strike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said he would have
shut down the mill and waited for workers to ask to come back under his
terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would this have worked?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Carnegie was in Scotland for most (if not all)
of the problems and strike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would it
have made a difference if he was here?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In 1868 Carnegie wrote himself a letter in which
he wrote “the amassing of wealth is one of the worst species of idolatry (page
39).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you think he justified his
actions regarding money during his life?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Both Carnegie and Frick grew up without much and
they both got opportunities to rise up from their current state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think they felt they provided the same
opportunities for others?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, how
did they justify their actions?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->A major difference between the two was that
Frick was “a man willing to take considerable risk in defense of his
principles” (page 81), while Carnegie’s “self-interest reigned supreme” (page
81).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did this difference affect their
actions and futures?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Carnegie’s business plan was to focus on “what
it cost to produce goods than in revenues or profits” (page 89).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did this influence his decisions during
the strike?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Captain Jones was plant manager, he
realized that it was counter-productive to have men working 12 hours a
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the work was divided into
8-hour days, the output increased without any increased cost of salaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did Carnegie go back to the 12-hour
shifts after the strike.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->After the strike the workers’ conditions
declined: wages down by one-half, the minimum basis for wages was discontinued,
and they went back to the 12-hour day working seven days a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How could Carnegie and Frick justify this?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If the reader is not from Pittsburgh, what do
you think they learned about our city?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For example, on page 17 the author mentioned KDKA as the first radio
station and Dr. Jonas Salk developing the polio vaccine at the University of
Pittsburgh.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If you are from Pittsburgh, what did you read
that was new or interesting?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
example, did you realize the Frick Building built in 1900 at 22 stories was
designed to overshadow the 15 story Carnegie building next to it?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss your reading experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you like how in Chapter Two the author
gave some historical background?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did
this add to your reading?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Out of This Furnace</i>, by Thomas Bell, started
in 1900 and was set in the Pittsburgh steel mills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did reading this book give you any additional
insights into the lives of the steelworkers?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-27277189424140894282023-07-29T08:40:00.000-07:002023-07-29T08:40:10.031-07:00The Henna Artist, by Alka Joshi<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lakshmi
“Jiji”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pitaji –
father, teacher<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Radha –
sister, “Bad Luck Girl”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hari –
husband<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Saasuji –
mother, taught Lakshmi about herbs, etc. for healing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Malik<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Naraya –
builder<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mrs. Iyengar
- landlady<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Samir Singh –
asked Lakshmi to move to Jaipur for henna and contraceptives, architect<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Parvati –
wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ravi – son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lala and
niece – servant<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Joyce Harris
– baby either husband’s or Samir’s, abortion at 5 months<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">V. M. Sharma
– official building contractor for royal family<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sheela –
daughter, pledged to Ravi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kanta Agarwal
– educated in England, adopted Nikil<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Manu -
husband<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Maharaja of
Jaipur<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Indira – Maharaja’s
step-mother, parakeet Madho Singh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Latika – current
wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dr. Jay Kumar<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lady Bradley
Hospital – Shimla<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lady Bradley
Healing Garden<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from hardback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->As Radha was adjusting to living with Lakshmi,
Lakshmi kept telling her the “rules.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
page 85 she told Radha, “You should cover your mouth when you yawn, Radha” and
she replied “Twentieth thing?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could you
live with all those rules, or do we already and they are just second nature?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Lakshmi felt very guilty about abandoning Radha,
but she did not even know she existed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Did you understand her feelings?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss Samir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was an important character throughout the novel: he brought Lakshmi
to Jaipur and helped her business, he was romantically involved with her, he
introduced her to Dr. Kamar, and he financed a loan for her house.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Parvati, Samir’s wife, first promoted Lakshmi’s
business to her friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when she
discovered Lakshmi had dealings with her husband, she got everyone but a few
people to stop calling her and thus ruined the business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given how talented and successful Lakshmi was
helping people, were you surprised they were so willing to immediately drop
her?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Were you surprised Lakshmi turned Parvati down
when she offered to restore Lakshmi’s reputation and business? (Page 278)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What did you think about the maharaja wanted to
adopt an heir and banishing his natural heir to England on the advice of an
astrologer? He was told “his natural son would overthrow him” (page 149).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Radha became pregnant, Lakshmi started to
have second thoughts about how she had helped men’s mistresses end their
pregnancies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had “justified it by
treating it as a business transaction” (page 241).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She did see this different from the “sachets
for the courtesans…who had been raised to be prostitutes” (page 241).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did you think as your read this?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss Hari.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Were you surprised he made such a dramatic change and started to
practice his mother’s herbs, etc.?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why
do you think this happened?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you
think Lakshmi could get back together with him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Malik got the palace chef to tell maharani about Hari and then finance
his efforts.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why do you think the henna designs Lakshmi
painted on various parts of the women’s bodies were so successful in helping
them?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What do you think happened after the story
ended?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-74554649800310094342023-07-29T08:39:00.000-07:002023-07-29T08:39:12.198-07:00The Librarian of Burned Books, by Brianna Labuskes<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters/People<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>New York 1943-1944<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Berlin 1932-1933<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Paris 1936-1937<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Vivian Childs
– Council on Books in Wartime<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Edward –
husband, deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Emmett Hale –
half-brother, State Representative<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charlotte –
mother-in-law<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Theodore
Childs – father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Philip Van
Doren Stern – head of Council<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mary Kathleen
Sullivan – Emmett’s mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William Hale
– adopted father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">American
Library of Nazi Burned Books<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hannah Brecht
- librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Armed Services
Editions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Senator
Robert Taft<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Althea James<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Joe –
brother, manager<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Althea James
– author, German heritage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>The
Unfractured Light<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>An
Inconceivable Dark<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Six-month
author residency in Berlin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Professor
Deidrich Muller<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Deveraux
Charales “Dev” – spy, turned in Adam with Otto’s help<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Otto Koch –
actor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hannah Brecht<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Adam Brecht<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hannah Brecht
– German<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">German
Library of Burned Books<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Alfred
Kantorowicz – library founder<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Heinrich Mann
- library president<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Adam –
brother, deceased, in concentration camp<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lucian –
resistance meetings<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Otto Koch<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Natalie
Clifford Burney – weekly salon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bridgette
Blanchett – landlady<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dev - actress<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Berlin 1995<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Vivian Hale<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Emmett Hale<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Martha Hale
Schumacher – daughter, House of Representatives<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hannah Brecht<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Althea James<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the way the author kept hinting
about the story between Hannah and Althea but never told the full story until
the end of the book?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In Althea’s stories, “No character was ever
completely good or evil, but rather they were made up of a number of traits”
(page 171).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you like clear-cut villains
and heroes?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The author used this book to emphasize the
importance of reading and books.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">For
example:</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
69 – “a pen could destroy a nation”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Page
354 – “War correspondents wrote to her that the soldiers had been allowed to
bring only the most essential items onto the beaches – and for many that
included thier lightweight paperbacks.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Pages
370 – 371 – “What Viv loves best, though, was the general consensus that books
were not just books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were stories
that helped the exhausted men overseas remember what they were fighting for –
freedom of thought, American values, antifascist sentiment.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in;">Were there any other ideas you
found interesting or important?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In talking about the ASE project, Viv said, “I
don’t think the author’s job is always to change the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think sometimes it ‘s to make it more
enjoyable” (page 336).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you think of
any books that influenced your thought process or, on the other hand, provided
pure enjoyment?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Hannah was speaking at the event in support
of the ASE program, she said wonders “what the moment was that we lost Germany
I knew…sometimes I think it was the moment right before the gasoline was poured
on the books. The moment the most educated country in the world willingly,
joyously, wholeheartedly turned away from knowledge” (page 362).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you agree?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Speaking of history, she said “history is built
on moments that feel insignificant” (page 363).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Can you think of any other examples of this?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Does Dev’s smuggling hundreds of Jews out of
Germany counterbalance her part in Adam’s betrayal?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss your reading experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did this book make you think?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was it enjoyable?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-77535463418280373162023-06-22T11:41:00.002-07:002023-06-22T11:41:53.050-07:00Remarkable Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Aquarium<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Sowell Bay<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Marcellus
McSquiddles<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pippa the
Grippa<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Tora Sullivan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Will –
husband, deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Erik – son,
deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lars –
brother, Charter Village, deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Terry – runs
aquarium<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cameron
Cassmore<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Aunt Jeanne –
raised Cameron<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Daphne
Cassmore - mother<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Knit-Wits<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mary Ann
Minetti<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Janice Kim<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Barb
Vanderhoof<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ethan Mack –
owns Shop-Way<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Adam Wright –
high school friend of Erik’s<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Simon Brinks
– high school friend of Daphne’s, Cameron’s suspected father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Avery – owns
surf shop<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Marco – son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Brad –
Cameron’s friend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Elizabeth –
wife, expecting<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Discussion<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the hardback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss the various characters, including Marcellus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How important was he to the novel’s
popularity?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Marcellus was given many human-like skills, for
example: he could open puzzle boxes, tell fingerprints apart, remember faces,
use tools, and see the differences in human gaits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many of these things can you do?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How do you think Erik died – suicide,
accident?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does it matter to the story to
know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How difficult would it be for Tova
and Cameron not to know?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->At what point in the novel did everything start
to fall into place for you?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Do you think Daphne is alive somewhere?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon told Cameron, “you can’t fix someone
who is determined to stay broken” (page 306).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If she is still alive, do you think she will want to be found?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Cameron was raised by his mother’s sister, Aunt
Jeanne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should she have told him more
about his mother?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, he never
knew he was from Sowell Bay until he was about 30.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In regards to being “fixed,” how was Cameron
different from his mother, Daphne, in that regard?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->What do you think contributed to Cameron turning
around and returning to Sowell Bay to “do things the right way” (page 340).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Were you sorry Tova sold the family home or did
that turn out for the best?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the ending?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was it too neatly wrapped up?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you happy for Marcellus to be free for
his death?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cameron found the hidden
space in Erik’s bedroom – was that realistic?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->On the one hand this was a fun book, but on the
other it addressed many serious issues such as the loss of a loved one
including a child, aging and how to handle that, loneliness, drug issues,
etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How well do you think the author
accomplished both entertaining the reader and addressing these issues?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-78451668434860226632023-06-22T11:40:00.002-07:002023-06-22T11:40:47.353-07:00Out of This Furnace, by Thomas Bell<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Kracha 1881<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Mike Dobrejcak 1900<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Mary 1914<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Dobie 1930s<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">George Kracha
“Djuro”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Elena – wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Djuro – son,
died<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Daughters:
Mary, Alice, Anna<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Andrej Sedlar<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Francka –
wife, Kracha’s sister<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sons –
Victor, Andy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Borda –
Kracha’s sister<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dorta <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Joe Dubik – 1<sup>st</sup>
husband<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Steve Radilla
– 2<sup>nd</sup> husband<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mike
Dobrejcak<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Joe Wold –
Slovak Jew, owned saloon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John and
Zuska Mihula – met on boat<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Frick<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Carnegie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Homestead
Strike 1892<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mike
Dobrejcak<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mary Kracha –
wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Children:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Joseph “Johnny”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pauline <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mike “Mikie”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Agnes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kracha <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Joe Dobrejcak
– brother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dexter family
– employed Kracha daughters<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Steve Bodner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Zuska Mihula<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Joseph – son,
priest<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Carnegie sold
3 mills to J. P. Morgan > US Steel<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1901<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mary and
children move to Homestead after Mike’s death<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kracha moves
in <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dorta<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Joe Dobrejcak<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Barry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Anna – wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Moved to
Donora<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Johnny – road
crew in Donora<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Spanish Flu
1918<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kracha –
living with Francka<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Francka –
making moonshine<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Johnny Dobrejcak
“Dobie” – secretary in union<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Julie – wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Barry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Anna – active
in politics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kracha
“Dzedo”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">AFL –
workers’ union<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dobie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gralja<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Burke<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Walsh –
organizer from Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">ERP – company
union<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bill Hagarty<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">CIO - 1935<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Flack -
superintendent<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the 1976 University of
Pittsburgh Press edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The book was written in 1941.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author used the “n word” when discussing
prejudice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wrote, “once it was the
Irish looking down on the Hunkies and now it’s the Hunkies looking down on the
n…” (page 330).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is the term “hunky” as
bad as the other word?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why or why
not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think one or both of these
words should be edited out?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Slovaks who came to America were part of “an
oppressed minority from the beginning of time” (page 123).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you think they found the same
“hostility and contempt of their neighbors, the men they worked with” (page
123) in America?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Did this book give you any insight into the
development and causes of prejudice?</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Were you surprised at how the steel industry
treated their early workers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early in
the novel Joe Dubik dies in an explosion in one of the furnaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author wrote that “it was the result of greed,
and part of the education of the American steel industry” (page 54).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Even with the bad living and working conditions,
people were described as having positive characteristics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was hope – “Hope sustained him, as it
sustained them all: hope and the human tendency to feel that” (page 47-48).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another was goodness – “People are born good,
they want to be good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is
something in the world that makes them bad” (page 217).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What other positive attributes did the
characters display?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Mary took Mike Dobrejcak to the Dexter’s house
where she worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was surprised to
see furniture and dishes that were beautiful and not just functional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He commented, “No matter how much you get you
always want more.” and “Maybe it would have been better for me never to have
seen it” (page 137).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever
experienced suddenly wanting something that you never thought about previously?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Do you think there is another side or
perspective to this story?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example,
how would Carnegie, Frick, or the Dexter’s view this history?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Dobie described Americans as “the kind that’s
got <i>Made in U. S. A</i>. stamped all over them (page 410).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did this apply to the development of the
characters and the story?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the ending?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-4070614942224874482023-06-03T11:56:00.001-07:002023-06-03T11:56:36.810-07:00America's First Daughter, by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Jefferson’s<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Others<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Thomas
Jefferson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Martha –
wife, deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Martha
“Patsy”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Polly<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lucy –
deceased<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Patsy and Tom
Randolph<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ann<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Thomas
Jefferson “Jeff”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ellen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cornelia<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Virginia “Ginny”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">James Madison
– first baby born in President’s House<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Benjamin
Franklin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Septimia<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jack Eppes –
married Polly<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sally Hemings
– father is Martha’s father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Betty –
mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Nance, Critta
– same father<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jimmy “James”
– chef<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sally’s sons,
promised freedom at age 21:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Beverly,
Johnny, Madison, Eston<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Harriet –
only surviving daughter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Colonel
Randolph- Jefferson’s cousin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Tom – oldest
son, married Patsy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Judith<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Nancy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gabriella
Harvie – second wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Richard
Randolph – Bizarre Plantation – accused of murdering Nancy’s baby<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Judith (Tom’s
sister) – wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Theo and John
– two brothers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Congressman <i>Randolph
of</i> <i>Roanoke</i> – Richard’s brother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">William Short
– Jefferson’s secretary<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Adams<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Abagail<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John Madison<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dolley<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Marquis de Lafayette<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Marie Cosway
– possible affair with Thomas Jefferson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the 2016 paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was it fair to place such high expectations on
Patsy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her mother made her promise to
always take care of her father when she died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also, in a letter from her father in 1783, he wrote “The acquirements I
hope you’ll make under the tutors I’ve provided will render you more worthy of
my love…no distress this world can now bring on me could equal that of your
disappointing my hopes” (pages 60 and 61).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Do you think Martha would have encouraged
Jefferson to remarry if she had known that Jefferson would have a romance with
Marie Cosway and father children with Sally Hemings?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you gain any insights into our country’s
history regarding slavery?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did William Short provide an effective
counterbalance to Jefferson’s thoughts on slavery?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told Patsy he could not live in Virginia
because of slavery and suggested to Jefferson that the mixing of races “is our
surest path to doing away with racial prejudice” (page 369).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Both Jimmy and Sally returned to Virginia after
living as free people in France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jefferson
promised to free Jimmy after he taught someone to cook for him and to care for
Sally and free her children when they turned 21.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could you understand their motivations?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Beverly turned 21, Sally chose to keep him
a slave and near her rather than send him away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you understand her choice?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Patsy made many sacrifices for Jefferson –
William told her she could be his wife and mother to their children or
Jefferson’s devoted daughter, but not both (page 214).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did Jefferson make any sacrifices in return?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Were you surprised when Patsy lied in court to
project Nancy’s reputation when Richard Randolph was accused of murdering the
baby she had with him? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her rationale was
that “For my husband’s sake, I’d saved her [Nancy’s] life” and that “only a
small part of the world would be influenced by the decision of the court” (page
301).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In the novel, many events were influenced by the
women behind the scenes. How effective would these strategies be today?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When
England enacted the Embargo Act of 1807, Patsy realized that the country’s fate
was in the hands of the women who would make most of the sacrifices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Likewise,
when Tom was running for office against John Randolph (Richard’s brother),
Patsy and Dolley wrote letters to influential ladies, tarnishing John’s
reputation. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Patsy
was successful as Jefferson’s hostess in Washington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She befriended the wives of the newspapermen
and singled out the most belligerent men and kept them engaged in conversation.
She told Dolley Madison she was able to be aware of troublemakers before they could
start anything because she listened “to what they do not say” (page 387). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Many of the men had negative characteristics
described in the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think this
was common for those times or just the way those people were?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Thomas
Jefferson – intimate with Sally Hemings<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Colonel
Randolph – mean and uncaring to children<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Tom
Randolph – not good at managing plantation or business, hit his son, Jeff, and
Patsy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Richard
Randolph – had baby with wife’s sister and then killed the baby<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Jack
Epps – not considerate of Polly or her health, kept her away from her family<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was Patsy to blame for many of Tom’s
troubles?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would have the same fate if he had married a
woman from a regular family instead of Thomas Jefferson’s daughter?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did this book change how you viewed Thomas
Jefferson or Sally Hemings?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Would this book be banned in today’s
schools?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If so, why?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-66474244222272724112023-06-03T11:54:00.000-07:002023-06-03T11:54:12.027-07:00Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Caiette – Northern Vancouver Island<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>File corruption<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Remittance 1912<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Mirella and Vincent 2020<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Last Book Tour on Earth 2203<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Bad Chickens 2401<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Edwin St John
St. Andrew<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Father <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mother –
Abagail<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gilbert – oldest
brother – inherit all<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Niall –
middle brother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">“Raj” –
English children born in India<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Reginald
-headed out west<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Thomas –
Niall’s friend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Priest (Gaspery)
– in forest, met Edwin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mirella
Kessler<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Faisel –
husband<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Vincent
Alkaitis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jonathan – husband,
Ponzi scheme<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Paul James
Smith – Vincent’s brother, musician and video artist, showed video of file
corruption during concert<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gaspery
Roberts<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Olive
Llewellyn – author<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Aretta –
publicist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dion –
husband<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sylvie –
daughter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Marienbad</i>
– book, about pandemic, being made into a movie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gaspery-Jacques
– character in book<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gaspery
Roberts – with “Contingencies Magazine”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Colony Two –
on moon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Olive
Llewellyn lived there 200 years ago<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Periphery
Road – circled dome inside<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gaspery<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Zoey –
sister, Time Institute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ephrem –
arborist, works at Time Institute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Anderson –
live in Olive’s house<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Daughter –
Natalia/Talia<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>2172<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Zoey sent
Gaspery to this year and location<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Alan Sami –
new name, violinist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Clara and
Mariam – sisters, own farm, time travelers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lina “Talia”
– violin teacher<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>2195<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Alan Sami
playing violin in airship terminal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Olive
Llewellyn walking in corridor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gaspery (#2)
interviewed Alan Sami (Gaspery #1)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gaspery (#3)
in forest at Caiette<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p>For Discussion:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the 2022 paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Garpery warned Olive about the approaching
pandemic, even though he was not supposed to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you knew something bad was to happen to someone, would you be able to
not tell them?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->During the pandemic of 2203 Olive attended
holographic meetings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of us have
experienced zoom meetings during COVID, how would a holographic meeting be
better or not?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->After these holographic meetings, Olive said
that they were very tiring, maybe because they weren’t real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dion replied, “Maybe you’re right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turns out reality is more important than we
thought” (page 182).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you think
he meant?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you agree with him?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->In one of her author talks in 2203 Olive was
talking about the interest in postapocalyptic fiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She thought it possibly might indicate that
people “long secretly for a world with less technology in it” (page 191).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you imagine we will ever get to that
point?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would the advantages and
disadvantages be?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Gaspery was the security guard at the hotel
in 2401, he lived in Colony One in an apartment complex so close to the edge of
the dome that the dome was just above the building roof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author also described the Periphery Road
that circled the city right inside the dome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Were you able to imagine those situations through the author’s
descriptions?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Also in 2401, Gaspery and Zoey were reading a
“handwritten document in a foreign alphabet” (page 125) but Gaspery could not
understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zoey told him it was
cursive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many people would have
trouble reading cursive now or in 20 years?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss your reading experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you enjoy the book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you able to keep everyone and the
timeline straight?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Have you read this type of novel before?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If no, did you like it and would you read
another of this author’s books?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
would you explain this book to someone else?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-86197964751491389542023-04-26T08:19:00.000-07:002023-04-26T08:19:04.210-07:00The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, by Michael Chabon<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Characters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">Takes place in Pittsburgh, PA in the summer following
college graduation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Art Beckstein
– narrator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Joe – father,
gangster<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mother –
deceased <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lenny Stern –
uncle, lieutenant in Pittsburgh organized crime<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Aunt Elaine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Phlox
Lombardi – Girl Behind the Glass at the Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Arthur
Leconte<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ondine –
mother, cleaning woman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cleveland
Arning<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jane
Bellweather – girlfriend, golfer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mohammed
“Momo” - friend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gangsters:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jim Breezy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Frankie
Breezy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Carl Puniche
– fences stolen jewelry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Feldman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lurch<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Locations:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Boardwalk
Books<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The Cloud
Factory<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The Lost
Neighborhood<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Various
neighborhoods around Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the 1989 Perennial Library
edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss the various characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you able to understand their
motivations?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were they portrayed well
and so that you could connect with them?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Cleveland’s excuse for never doing anything was
that, “Every one of his failings has a perfectly good excuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually some kind of disaster… so Cleveland
is pardoned from every having to do anything good, or productive, ever again”
(page 126).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you able to understand
this about Cleveland?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was there anything
that could be done to help him?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->One time when Cleveland and Art were out at a
bar, Cleveland said to Art, “Let’s get some pickled eggs” (page 112).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you make and like pickled eggs?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The last sentence in the novel is, “No doubt all
of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which
obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything”
(page 297).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did this give you a
different idea of the novel?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Many classic novels and authors were mentioned
in the novel: <i>Ten Tales of Tension and Terror</i> (Poe, page 231), <i>The
Happy Prince</i> (Wilde, 98), and Garcia Marquez (page 111).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did this add to the novel for you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you think the author added these?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->This novel was first published in 1988 and
received rave reviews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you think
it would be received today?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The blurbs on the cover of the 1989 edition
compare the novel to Dickens’ <i>Our Mutual Friend</i> and Fitzgerald’s <i>The
Great Gatsby</i>, and Art Beckstein to Tom Sawyer and Holden Caulfield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you agree?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Is there anything we can learn from this novel
today?<o:p></o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-53969180947864842212023-04-26T08:17:00.001-07:002023-04-26T08:17:49.802-07:00The Christie Affair, by Nina du Gramont and The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, by Marie Benedict<p> NOTE: Members of my book group read both or either one of these novels.</p><p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Facts/Real
People:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Agatha
Christie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Archibald
Christie – was having an affair with, and later married, Nancy/Theresa Neele<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Daughter
Rosaline<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">She worked in
a dispensary during the war and learned about poisons<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Agatha did
disappear for 11 days and was found at the Harrogate spa, registered as Theresa
Nele<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">She wrote
three letters before disappearing: one to secretary that was turned over to
the police, two others to Archie and her brother-in-law that were destroyed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle did get a glove and ask a medium for help.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">She claimed
she did not remember anything that happened.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>The Christie Affair<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>The Mystery of Mrs. Christie<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Agatha and
Archie Christie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Teddy –
daughter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Honoria –
nanny and secretary<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Nan O’Dea –
mistress, narrator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Genevieve -
baby with Finbarr given for adoption<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sisters –
Coleen (deceased), Megs, Louisa<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Parents<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Finbarr
Mahoney<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Deputy Chief
Constable Thompson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Inspector
Frank Chilton – called out of retirement, found Agatha on day 4 but did not
report it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sam
Lippincott - police, with Chilton in war<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Convent:<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sister Mary
Clare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Father Joseph
– rapist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Nan (daughter
Genevieve)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bess (son
Ronan) – raped by Father Joseph<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>Bellefort
Hotel and Spa – Harrogate<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Simon and
Isabelle Leech – owners, Lippincott’s cousin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. and Mrs.
Marston (Sister Mary Clare and Father Joseph) – murdered<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lizzie (Bess)
and Donny Clarke<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mrs. and Mr.
Race (Bess’ sister and husband)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finbarr<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Chilton<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs. Cornelia Armstrong<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Nan
“Genevieve O’Dea”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Agatha and
Archie Christie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Rosalind –
daughter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charlotte
Fisher – nanny and secretary<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Agatha’s family:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Madge – older
sister (12 years), writer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Monty -
brother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sam and Madge
Owens – golf friends<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Nancy Neele –
Archie’s mistress<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Deputy Chief
Constable Kenwood<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Superintendent
Charles Goddard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Commander
Reynolds – Scotland Yard<o:p></o:p></p>
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</tbody></table>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE – Page numbers are from hardback editions of novels.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Christie Affair</span></i></b> – written from Nan’s point of view<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was it logical that Finbarr kept showing up: at
Ballycotton when he was sick, a year later when he found Nan in London when war
ended, six years later he found Agatha when she crashed car, and then was at
the Bellefort Hotel?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like that there were two focuses on the
novel – Agatha’s disappearance and what happened to unwed mothers during this
time period?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you agree with this
statement?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss your reading experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were you able to follow along, particularly
everyone who was at Harrogate and who they really were?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you like the last paragraph and the way the
narrator spoke directly to the reader?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Was the story believable?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does that matter?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Mystery of Mrs. Christie<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Agatha’s mother’s advised to always put her
husband first and do everything for his happiness, at the expense of herself
and any children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think this was
typical of the 1920s?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Archie was greatly changed when he came home
from the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this had not happened,
do you think the outcome of their marriage would have been different?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given the time, was there anything he or
Agatha could do?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Archie’s excuse for ending the marriage was, “I hate
it when people are ill or unhappy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
spoils everything for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It spoiled us,
Agatha” (page 195).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was this a result of
his war experience or did you think he was always self-centered like this and
kept it hidden?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Did you understand that the manuscript Agatha
kept referring to in Part Two was what you had read throughout the book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If she had released it, do you think it would
have had the intended result portraying Archie in a bad light?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Both novels<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Both novels have the same disclaimer on the
copyright page: “The characters and events portrayed in this book are
fictitious or are used factiously.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
important is it for the reader to keep this in mind?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Compare how Archie was portrayed in the two
books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His portrayal in the Marie
Benedict book was especially unflattering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How fair is this to him if this is not true?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564323224201937600.post-59404497347721311642023-04-26T08:15:00.002-07:002023-04-26T08:15:43.206-07:00Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle, by Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg<p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>People<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Elizabeth
Hughes Gossett<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charles Evans
Hughes – father, Supreme Court, Secretary of State for President Harding<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Antoinette –
mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Siblings –
Charles Jr., Helen (deceased), Catherine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Blanche
Burgess – nurse and constant companion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Willian T.
Gossett – husband<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Frederick
Grant Banting</b> – discovered insulin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Charles Best
and Clark Noble – assistants<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Bert Collip –
biochemist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">John James
Rickard Macleod – supervisor, always used “we” when talking about discovery<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Frederick
Madison Allen<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The
Physiatric Institute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">“The Allen
Diet”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Eddie –
interested in birds with Elizabeth<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Teddy Ryder –
scrapbook with pictures of food, died age 76, last surviving member of first
group treated by Banding, scrapbook in Fisher Rare Book Library at University
of Toronto<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>George
Henry Alexander Clowes<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Employed by
Eli Lilly<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Approached
Banting and Best at conference to get drug for Eli Lilly<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Others:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dr. Joe
Gilchrist – first human to receive insulin on 12-20-1921<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Discussion:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: Page numbers are from the 2010 paperback edition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Could you survive on “The Allen Diet?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->It was only two about two years from the time
Banting started working on the drug until it became available to diabetes
patients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is much faster than
today, except for the COVID vaccine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Would you have volunteered your child to be one of the first to receive
insulin?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Banting’s lab used (and killed) many dogs and
rabbits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could this be done today?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was it worth the sacrifice of all the
animals?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Should Elizabeth feel guilty that she got the
drug at the expense of another child who did not?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Discuss Charles Hughes and his decision to use
his political influence to get help for Elizabeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should he have had second thoughts because
his position helped his daughter at the expense of another child whose father
was not well known and connected.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why do you think there was such a drastic change
in Charles after he got the help for Elizabeth?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The authors wrote that, “Charles now understood
something that Elizabeth had learned through her years of trial – that the
purpose of living is not to <i>preserve</i> life but to <i>lose</i> it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Living is by necessity a process of
continuous loss” (page 212).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They then
wrote that his request “had released Charles to become more fully human than he
had ever dared to be” (page 212).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
do you think the authors meant?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Why do you think the authors chose the four
people they did as the focus for their book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->There was a celebration on the ship to initiate
those who had never crossed the equator before into the “Sons of Neptune.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you crossed the equator?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you a Son (or Daughter) of Neptune?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Arden Hamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407743948006449165noreply@blogger.com0