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Responding
Question 1. What are some of Stegner's impressions that have been altered by time?
Question 2. Discuss the meanings of the following sentences:
a) "There is enough left to disturb me, but not to satisfy me." (paragraph 9)
b) "The sensuous little savage, at any rate, has not been rubbed away or dissolved; he is as solid a part of me as my skeleton." (4th last paragraph)
c) "1 feel the world still reduces me to a point and then measures itself from Me." (3rd last paragraph)
Question 3. What does the smell of wolf willow symbolize to Stegner?
Question 4. What latent feelings does the author have about his brother, grand-mother, mother, and father? Support your observations with refer-ences to specific details in the essay.
Question 5. a) How has Stegner organized this passage?
b) What is the point of the geometric images in the third last paragraph?
Question 6. a) Which descriptive paragraph go you like best in the selection? What do you like about it?
b) Which of the author's boyhood memories do you find most attractive, relevant, or interesting?
(Student Notes, page 170)