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Question 1:
Now read "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara. Click the title please.
1. Who is Miss Moore? Why does she take an interest in the neighborhood children? Where does she take them? How does she attempt to teach them?
2. Describe Sylvia, the narrator, as a character. Why does she keep $4 of the five-dollar bill given her by Miss Moore? What does she mean by "ain't nobody gonna beat me at nuthin" in the story's final paragraph?
3. Describe the level of language of the narrator. Is she speaking the story or writing it? How can you tell?
4. Consider paragraphs 44-50. What ideas about equality and inequality are brought out in the story? Do you think the children will remember the "lesson" or that they will forget it? Why?
Question 2: Now read "Araby" by James Joyce. Please click on the title.
1. Describe what you consider to be the story's main idea.
2.Why might we consider the bazaar "Araby" a symbol in this story? To what extent does this symbol represent or help us understand the main idea of the story?
3.Consider the attitude of the speaker toward his home as indicated in the first paragraph. Why do you think the speaker uses the word "blind" to describe the dead-end street? What relationship exists between the speaker's pain at the end of the story and the ideas in the first paragraph?
4. Who is the narrator? About how old is he at the time of the story? About how old when he tells the story? What effect is produced by this difference in age between narrator-as-character and narrator-as-storyteller? (Does it remind you of "Those Winter Sundays"?)