Assignment Question
Choose one of the following questions and respond in essay form. Be sure to quote from the text to support your claim. You can start working on it now, but you will have until midnight on December 11th to submit it to me.
Were you surprised by the ending of the story? If not, at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson foreshadow the ending? Conversely, how does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town? Jackson gives interesting names to a number of her characters. Can you explain the possible allusions or symbolism of some of these? Delacroix / Graves / Summers / Bentham / Hutchinson /Warner /Martin / Baxter, etc.
This story was published in 1948. Are there any cultural or historical events that Jackson might be commenting on here? Is this JUST a story about this time and place, or is she trying to say something important about human nature?Choose one of the following questions and respond in essay form. Be sure to quote from the text to support your claim.
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