Reference no: EM133332533
Assignment:
1. Address the following elements of the story and comment upon the significance:
a. first-person, apparently autobiographical narrators (but what are the differences among them?)
b. close observation of ordinary life
c. more or less introspective, even claustrophobic mood
d. apparently symbolic elements (But are they? Which? Significance?)
e. theme of isolation
f. search for meaning or identity
g. connection to culture (Where do we see it? Which culture(s)? Comment on culture?)
2. What is the dominant metaphor of the story? (hint: look at the title as well as the content) How is it EXTENDED?
3. The narrator emphasizes this pragmatic world of ours Significance?
4. The elephant and keeper have vanished completely. They will never be coming back." It's tempting to assume that the elephant and keeper represent something other than themselves. What?