What ways were challenged to expand your reading strategies

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Assignment:

Zoot Suit: End of Pla Questions

After ?nishing the play, please take your time to thoroughly answer these questions. The play ends with a collection of characters asserting the many facets of the main character's identity and stating some possible outcomes for him. Finally, El Pachuco declares. "Henry Reyna...E| Pachuco...The man... the myth ...still lives. (Lights down and fade out).

1, What do you think is meant by these ?nal words?

2. How does the end of the play affect your thoughts about the author's intended purpose. the themes the play has explored, and the impact it achieves?

3. How did reading the play (and discussing it) before watching it help you to understand it?

4. In what ways were you challenged to expand your reading strategies and abilities while reading this play?

5. In what ways did Luis Valdez create a script that allowed you as a reader to visualize the action and think about the deeper meanings of the play?

6. What do you think Valdez expects from us as readers or audience members? What are the differences between these two roles?

7. What would you rate the play on a scale from 1 to 10? Explain why (5 sentences or more).

8. Would this story have had the same effect if written as a narrative (a novel) instead of a play? Explain why. (5 sentences or more).

9. What is the meaning behind Luis Valdez giving us three different outcomes for Henry's future? What do you believe Henry's outcome will be, and why? (3 to 5 sentences... or more)

10. Stylistically how did you feel about the delivery of the news that the gang won the appeal? Would you have delivered this news to the audience in a different way? Why? (3 to 5 sentences)

11. Would you have chosen to end the play in a different way? How would you have ended the play and what effect would you want your ending to have on the audience? (3 to 5 sentences)

12. At the end of the play we hear again from Rudy. How do we view his character after his ?nal lines of the play? (3 to 5 sentences)

13. Who do you think actually committed the murder during the scene of the crime? Why? (3 to 5 sentences)

14. If you were asked to describe the character of Henry Reyna, how would you do it? Please give evidence (2 examples including the page numbers) from the play to support your writing. (5 to 7 sentences)

15. Now that the play has ?nished, is your favorite character still the same? Why or why not?

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